KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is set to maintain the remaining PSL games in Abu Dhabi following month after receiving approval from UAE government to property its own chartered flights in Mumbai and Johannesburg carrying members of this broadcasting team, officials and players.
The sixth version of this Pakistan Super League seemed to be in doubt until Thursday if the UAE government hadn’t issued consent to this PCB for landing chartered flights out of India and South Africa.
“The Abu Dhabi sports company has written a letter with its own immigration ability to enable the landing of their chartered flights in Mumbai and Johannesburg,” a PCB official said.
He said then clearance, chartered flights would be permitted to fly for Abu Dhabi.
The PCB confronted a lengthy delay getting visas to its Indian and South African American team members but eventually obtained visas to get them on Thursday ahead of the landing consent problem cropped up.
On Thursday, two chartered flights taking around 250 officials, players, PCB workers and official broadcasters along with their employees withdrew in Abu Dhabi in Karachi and Lahore.
“The players, officials and other stakeholders have entered quarantine in their resorts so today that the PCB is in a position to announce the new program of their remaining 20 games of this PSL,” the official stated.
He said there weren’t any hurdles in coordinating the league at Abu Dhabi.
“We’re still anticipating some 20 visas to some officials and players of several franchises and we’ll get them and they’ll even leave by tomorrow chartered flight” Those awaiting visas consist of former Pakistan captain Sarfaraz Ahmed, that directs the Quetta Gladiators franchise along with a few other gamers also.
A dependable source said the PCB has been set to bear a great deal of hefty expenditures on hosting the games in Abu Dhabi however they’ve persuaded the franchises to have a little cut in their share by the league revenue for year six.
The PSL 6 suits have been held at Abu Dhabi following the PCB needed to postpone that the Celtics in early March at Karachi since climbing Covid-19 instances among officials and players with only 14 matches performed at that moment.