Pakistan Super League in trouble once again

There are many professional cricket leagues played around in different countries. Especially England and Australian leagues are very much popular from the past. Many great players have improved their skills playing these leagues. Now after seeing the popularity of T twenty formats there is a new trend to have T twenty leagues, India started it first with the name of Indian Premier League (IPL). This is a commercial project that goes very successful for players, owners and the board. After India Srilanka, and Bangladesh have also launched their leagues. They are not as successful as IPL.

This follows by Pakistan as they announce to have Pakistan Super League (PSL). As there is no country currently coming to Pakistan for playing so the board wanted to attract the players for hefty money offers. The overall value of the PSL is estimated over $100 million.

Players who wanted to participate are divided into five categories. The players are selected according to the skills and their face value. Following is the income plan for each category player.

Category	Price ($)
Diamond	$100,000
Platinum	$70,000
Gold	$50,000
Silver	$25,000
Emerging	$5,000-$10,000

So these Salaries are very much attractive for the players and many are supposed to come to Pakistan for playing this Inaugural event.

On the other hand Federation of International Cricketers Association (FICA) has warned the International players from participating in the event because of the security issues in Pakistan. So this may affect the league. But Haroon Lorgat who is appointed as an advisor for PSL thinks that this warning will not be a serious issue as many players and sponsors are ready to come.

This league is supposed to start on 26^th of March and will continue till 7^th of April and there will be 5 teams who play against each other first of Round-robin basis and then on knockout basis. But this is now postponed for indefinite period again for various reasons. In the mean time PSL got another setback as its managing director Salman Sarwar Butt, has resigned from his post.