ISLAMABAD – The Pakistan Cricket Board has decided to take measures tocontrol the state of affairs of players taking part in excessive T20leagues and ensure availability of local players for domestic leagues. Tothis effect, PCB is devising new rules to restrict contracted players fromparticipating in other T20 League.

Once the new proposals are approved, players in contract with PCB won’t beable to take part in more than two leagues a year. This includes bothdomestic and foreign leagues.

An informed source had this to say about the matter:

New rules are being drafted for players’ participation in domestic andforeign leagues. One proposal is that the maximum number of T20 leaguescontracted players can play in will be two per year, including PSL.

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The proposal was presented in a meeting chaired by the PCB chairman NajamSethi. The structure of the domestic cricket will remain the same. However,the selection committee will have a greater say in selecting players forregional teams.

Apart from that, the meeting discussed the regulation of local leagues aswell. It was mentioned that;

Local leagues with media and commercial rights will be regulated and willhave to meet certain PCB conditions regarding anti-corruption measures plusthe selection of players and sponsors and fee payment.

It was further decided to give a pay raise to the regional playersparticipating in the domestic cricket tournament.