The Pakistan Super League (PSL) is set to resume in Abu Dhabi after it received all the approvals. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) will announce the fixtures and schedule for the tournament soon.
"We are grateful to UAE government, National Emergency Crisis and Disasters Management Authority, Emirates Cricket Board & Abu Dhabi Sports Council for their support in ensuring all final obstacles were removed, which has firmly put us in a position to complete our marquee event," an official release from the Board said.
The tournament was postponed in March after there was a rise in Covid-19 cases within the franchise bubbles.
It was later rescheduled and slated to begin on June 1 in Karachi where all the matches including the final had to be played. But the PCB had to consider hosting it in UAE after franchises requested the board for the same citing the Covid-19 issue in the country.
The conditions imposed by the Emirates health advisory earlier made it almost impossible for the Pakistan board to hold the tournament in the Gulf nation. The first condition that was put by the UAE government was that all the players and staff members travelling to the country should be vaccinated, which was a difficult task for the PCB considering the amount of time it had.
Secondly, most of the TV production crew is from India and the UAE has banned travel from the nation for the time being due to the horrific Covid situation in the South Asian country.
The PCB and the franchises held a meeting on May 19 to discuss various possibilities regarding the tournament.