PSL CEO Salman Naseer has revealed the top four cities under consideration for new PSL teams — Faisalabad, Sialkot, Rawalpindi & Hyderabad! 🏏🔥


 The valuation’s completion dovetails with the PSL’s most ambitious structural shift yet: expansion to eight teams starting with the next edition.

Two new franchises will be awarded through an open auction, Salman revealed, with bidders selecting from a PCB-curated “pool of cities” to ensure balanced geographical representation.

“Interest is already overwhelming,” he said, sidestepping questions on base prices but indicating a floor “significantly higher” than historical benchmarks.

Salman confirmed that PSL has been registered under as a separate entity under the Pakistan Cricket Board umbrella, designed to provide “dedicated resources and undivided attention” without duplicating the parent body’s expertise.

“The debate is ongoing at the Board of Governors,” he noted. “How much autonomy versus synergy? The goal is simple: let the PSL scale while staying integrated where it counts.”

The press conference, however, could not escape the lingering controversy surrounding Multan Sultans owner Ali Tareen, whose public accusations of mismanagement, selective leaks, and valuation opacity have dominated social media and fractured fan sentiment.

Salman addressed the issue directly but succinctly after fielding expansion queries, his tone measured yet unyielding.

“This is a family matter,” he stated. “It will be resolved in boardrooms and, if needed, legally.”

To a follow-up on whether the PSL’s relative silence was ceding narrative ground to Tareen, potentially damaging the league’s image among fans, Salman replied: “You’re asking me to fight fire with fire. I won’t. Leaking documents, public mudslinging—that’s not how we operate. This league has survived exile, Covid, and worse. It has its own momentum now. It will go on—with or without any individual.”

Meanwhile, Salman revealed that the HBL, the PSL title sponsor for its first decade, has extended its agreement for two more years at an increase of 505 per cent to the inaugural deal in 2016.

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