[Schedule] Pakistan Super League Season 1 | PSL T-20 Tournament Squads

The first quarter of the year 2016 will be showing some fascinating Twenty20 events, namely BBL2016, MCL T20, Asia Cup T-20, ICC World T20 2016, IPL making everyone a cricket enthusiast. We are back again with yet another exciting T-20 League in the world of Cricket. After the success of IPL [Indian Premier League], BBL [Oz's Big Bash League], BPL [Bangladesh Premier League], RamSlam [South African League], CPL [Caribbean Premier League], SLPL [SL Premier League], MCL [Masters Champions League] now, we have T-20 League of Pakistan. The first edition is to be played from 4th February to 23rd Fenruary 2016.

About HBL-PSL

The league is going to be played in February 2016 in Pakistan which marks return of international cricketers to Pakistan since after terrorist attack on SL's tour of Pakistan back in 2009, neither of World's top teams travelled Pakistan. This is a big news for cricketing fraternity as world's top players taking part in this tournament viz. Dilshan, Gayle, Bravo, Watson, Haddin, Sammy, Peterson etc. are among the top international imports for tournament. It is proposed to be played in three int'l stadiums of UAE viz. Sharjah Cricket Stadium and Dubai Int'l Cricket Stadium.

 

PSL League Format

We have 5 teams named after 5 Pakistani cities i.e. Islamabad, Karachi, Quetta, Lahore, Peshawar, each team accomodating about 20 players, auctioned from the pool of 308 players. Five teams will play against each other twice in round robin format, i.e. each team playing minimum of 8 matches. The total adding upto 24 matches, including 3 Pyal-offs and 1 Grand Finale. The top four team with highest points will qualify for semi-finals [Play-offs].

 Original pool of Players

Teams are as follows :

Karachi Kings [ARY Group] : Shoaib Malik
Lahore Qalandars [Qatar Oil] : Azhar Ali 
Islamabad United [UAE Capital Venture] : Misbah-Ul-Haq
Peshawar Zalmi [Haier Group] : Shahid Afridi
Quetta Gladiators [Omar Associates]  : Sarfaraz Ahmed

List of Players [Team Squads] is as follows :

    * Jason Holder is replaced by Thisara Perera in Quetta Gladiators' Squad
    * Shaun Tait signs for Peshawar Zalmi

[PDF] Schedules : T-20 World Cup 2016 | Asia Cup 2016 T-20 | Big Bash League 2016

 

PSL Schedule 2016

February 4 – Islamabad vs Quetta – Dubai
February 5 – Karachi vs Lahore – Dubai
February 5 – Peshawar vs Islamabad – Dubai
February 6 – Lahore vs Peshawar – Dubai
February 6 – Quetta vs Karachi – Dubai
February 7 – Islamabad vs Karachi – Dubai
February 7 – Quetta vs Peshawar – Dubai
February 8 – Lahore vs Quetta – Dubai
February 10 – Islamabad vs Lahore – Sharjah
February 11 – Karachi vs Peshawar  – Sharjah
February 11 – Islamabad vs Quetta  – Sharjah
February 12 – Karachi vs Lahore – Sharjah
February 12 – Peshawar vs Islamabad – Sharjah
February 13 – Quetta vs Karachi – Sharjah
February 13 – Lahore vs Peshawar – Sharjah
February 14 – Islamabad vs Karachi – Sharjah
February 14 – Quetta vs Peshawar – Sharjah
February 16 – Lahore vs Quetta – Dubai
February 17 – Karachi vs Peshawar – Dubai
February 17 – Islamabad vs Lahore – Dubai

February 19 – Playoff 1 [1st place vs 2nd place] – Dubai
February 20 – Playoff 2 [3rd place vs 4th place] – Dubai
February 21 – Playoff 3 [winner of playoff 2 vs loser of playoff 1] – Dubai
February 23 – Final [winner of playoff 1 vs winner of playoff 3]

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