The Pakistan Cricket Board has assured its Sri Lankan counterparts that it had no hesitation touring the nation for a two-Test collection in late July-August, regardless of the continuing unrest within the island nation.
“We are always ready to support Sri Lanka Cricket even in difficult times and we have no issues touring the country for the test series,” a PCB official stated.
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) is going through issues because of the present unsure political and financial state of affairs prevailing within the nation with every day violent protests on the streets towards the federal government.
Cricket Australia which is to ship its crew to Sri Lanka earlier than Pakistan has stated it’s monitoring the state of affairs and can take a last choice based mostly on it.
But the PCB official stated that it was the decision of the Sri Lankan cricket and Pakistan would simply comply with their path.
Sri Lanka is going through its worst financial disaster with solely 12 hours of electrical energy being supplied to the locals who’re going through extreme gasoline scarcity.
“We have a very strong relationship with the Sri Lankan Board, the two countries have always supported each other in difficult situations,” the official stated.
He added that Pakistan wouldn’t refuse to play the collection in July and August.
“Whatever decision the SLC deems best we will accept it playing in Sri Lanka or even at a neutral venue,” he stated.
Pakistan was additionally resulting from play three ODIs on the tour however the SLC requested the PCB to drop the white ball matches as they wished to start out their Lanka Premier League earlier by every week.
PCB earns bumper income organizing PSL-7
The Pakistan Cricket Board has ended up with bumper income of two.3 billion PKR from organizing the seventh version of the Pakistan Super League in January-February this 12 months.
An official official of the PCB confirmed that the board had earned a internet revenue of roughly 2.3 billion Pakistani Rupees from the PSL.
“Let me be clear that this is the net profit of the PCB and the profit of the six franchises which took part in the PSL is separate,” he stated.
Asked to present out an approximate determine of the income which can be distributed from the central pool to the six groups, he stated these couldn’t be disclosed resulting from confidentiality clauses.
“We have declared our profit from the PSL as it is our profit but we can’t disclose the profits that will be given to the franchises,” he stated.
This, maybe, is the best revenue earned by the PCB from the group of the PSL because it was launched in 2016.
Generally the PCB shares a 5-95 revenue sharing components with the franchises from the cash earned from broadcasting, title sponsorship, gate cash and different rights.
The official admitted that because of the COVID-19 pandemic disturbing the PSL 5 and 6 editions, the board needed to distribute compensation quantity of 1 billion rupees to the franchises to make up for his or her working losses.
The official stated that resulting from a worthwhile season the reserve funds of the board had additionally jumped from 12 billion to fifteen billion rupees this fiscal 12 months.
“Given the fact that because of the COVID pandemic since 2020 many cricket boards have suffered losses of revenues and faced desperate times the PCB has not only managed to stay secure but even made profits from the PSL.” He additionally stated that no less than 5 of the six franchises within the PSL 7 would make income this 12 months.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
