Najam Sethi Uncertain About Overseas Players In PSL Final After Lahore Blast

Feb 14, 2017 at 9:29 PM

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Najam Sethi Uncertain About Overseas Players In PSL Final After Lahore Blast

Pakistan Super League chairman Najam Sethi is fearing the worst after the latest bomb attack in Lahore that has claimed 13 lives so far.

The Pakistan Cricket Board are looking to hold this year’s PSL final in Lahore which might pave the way for the return of international cricket to the country. No top Test team has visited Pakistan since March 2009 when terrorists attacked the Sri Lankan team in Lahore. Zimbabwe played a short limited-overs series in Lahore in May 2015 but big teams are still reluctant to visit the country and Sethi has now admitted that the latest attacks have made it very difficult for foreign players to feature in the final which was set to be played at Gaddafi Stadium on March 5.

Speaking to Geo News, Sethi said:“Obviously people will be more wary and scared. So right now to say whether we can convince them easily is very difficult. Now I will have to start all over again. I cannot say that we will be successful or not because they have families, they will have their associations which will guide them.”

Sethi has now asked the Pakistani fans to decide the venue of the final as the tournament organisers are willing to conduct the match with only Pakistani players if necessary in Lahore.

“The situation is this that the question Pakistanis have to answer is if the foreign players do not agree to come to Lahore, or a lot of them don’t, should we still have a final with just Pakistan players in Lahore, or should we have it with foreign players and do it in Dubai?” he asked. “This is the question the Pakistani public has to answer and whatever their wish we will see to it.”

Sethi also stated he personally wished to see the final happening in Lahore than in Dubai even if it means not having the foreign players for the title-decider.

“My heart says we have to show the world,” he said. “If foreign players come to Lahore then good and if they don’t, then with our Pakistani players we should have a PSL final in Lahore. But I want public opinion on this, I want cricket-lovers to tell me, cricket fans – what do they want? Whatever they want, we will do.”

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