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Remaining PSL 2025 matches shifted to UAE, says PCB
The Pakistan Cricket Board decided to move the premier Twenty20 tournament to the UAE, which hosted the first edition of the league in 2016, due to the country's ongoing conflict with India
- PUBLISHED: Fri 9 May 2025, 2:28 AM
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Friday confirmed that the remaining fixtures of the HBL PSL X have been shifted to the UAE.
The last eight fixtures, which were previously scheduled in Rawalpindi, Multan and Lahore will now be staged in the UAE.
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"The exact schedule of matches, outlining the dates and venues, will be shared in due course," the PCB said in a statement.
The PCB decided to move the tournament to the UAE, which hosted the first edition of the league in 2016, due to the ongoing conflict between Pakistan and India.
Thirty-seven foreign players including from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the West Indies, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan are involved in the league.
Sources told AFP foreign players did not want stay in Pakistan after deadly confrontations between the nuclear-armed foes drew global calls for calm.
India sent air strikes into Pakistan on Wednesday, two weeks after New Delhi blamed Islamabad for backing an attack on the Indian-run side of disputed Kashmir, which Pakistan denied.
Pakistan responded with heavy artillery fire and both sides accused each other on Thursday of carrying out waves of drone attacks.
International cricket resumed in Pakistan in 2020 after remaining suspended in the wake of 2009 terrorist attacks on the Sri Lankan team bus in Lahore.
Several Australian and New Zealand players involved in the PSL's recent edition, including Australia's David Warner, had travelled to Pakistan with their national teams in the recent past. (With inputs from AFP)