Psl History

Pakistan Super League

The Pakistan Super League (PSL) (Urdu: پاکستان سپر لیگ‎) is a professional Twenty20 cricket league in Pakistan composed of 5 member clubs representing cities. Headquartered in Lahore, the PSL is widely considered to be the premier professional cricket league in Pakistan. The PSL Cup will be awarded annually to the league playoff champion at the end of each season.

The Pakistan Super League will be organized in 2016 From 4 feb To 24 Feb and will replace the existing Haier T20 Cup. The league will draw many highly skilled players from all over the world, and currently has players signed from approximately 11 different countries (9 Full and 2 Associate Members) . Pakistani players will constitute the majority of the players in the league.

The history of the Pakistan Super League begins with the end of its predecessor league, the Haier T20 Cup (known previously as the ABN-AMRO Twenty-20 Cup, RBS Twenty-20 Cup and Faysal Bank Twenty-20 Cup). The Haier T20 Cup began in the 2004–05 season and quickly established itself as the premier professional Twenty20 cricket league in Pakistan with 14 member clubs, of which are 13 were located in Pakistan and 1 in Afghanistan. Pakistan was one of the first countries to start a domestic T20 competition.[1] The T20 Cup was awarded annually to the league playoff champion at the end of each season. Of the 9 played seasons, the Sialkot Stallions were the most dominant team winning the championship a total of 6 times. The 2015–16 season was the final season of the Haier T20 Cup in which the Peshawar Panthers defeated the Karachi Dolphins by 7 wickets at Rawalpindi.