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Psl Partners Facebook For Live Broadcast Through Facebook Paid Online Events

PSL partners Facebook for Live broadcast through Facebook Paid Online Events

The Pakistan Super League has partnered with Facebook to show all the remaining 20 games of the sixth edition, live on the social media platform through their Facebook Paid Online Events feature. The matches would be reached in non-broadcast regions of the world where sports fans can watch the game at a nominal fee, generating more fans as well as more sources of revenue for both the PSL and the Pakistan Cricket Board.

Facebook Paid Online Events will help the Board monetize the matches by requiring fans to pay a nominal one-time sign-up fee to access the live broadcast. The broadcast can then be watched anytime.

Policy Lead Pakistan for Facebook, Sehar Tariq, while speaking on the partnership said, “We are excited to partner for HBL PSL this year. The league has gained popularity around the world.” “With support from PCB, we have been able to connect HBL PSL's global fan base to view their matches around the world while also supporting PCB to build a new revenue stream and support their business,” she added.

Originally slated to begin from June 1, the postponed season which has now been shifted from Karachi, Pakistan to Abu Dhabi, UAE will begin on June 9 with Islamabad United taking on Lahore Qalandars at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium.

“We hope that Paid Online Events will enhance the experience of the HBL PSL for all cricket lovers across the world,” Triaq said while hoping for a smooth journey on Facebook for cricket fans, especially those of the PSL and Pakistan team and its players.

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Adil Rashid expects The Hundred to bring diversity, new generation of cricketers into game

England leg spinner Adil Rashid has high hopes from ECB’s flagship tournament —The Hundred and said that it will help in bringing more diversity into the game as well as providing opportunities for the emergence of players of the current generation. "The aim of The Hundred is to get the new generation of cricketers coming in. There will obviously be some of the same crowd as well, but to get different age groups, ethnicities, backgrounds, gender, religion, male, female - it's basically for all,” Rashid said at the Dynamos Cricket event, which provides young children aged eight to 11 with an opportunity to play with professional cricketers. The Hundred was supposed to take off last year but was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The tournament will now begin on July 21 with the women's edition followed by the men’s tournament a day later.

Seeing me they started supporting Australian team: How Usman Khawaja changed subcontinent mentality

Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja has claimed that his representation in the Australian national team had a big role in the first and second generation sub-continent people supporting the Australian cricket team. “When I started being more involved in cricket, people with subcontinent heritage in Australia came up to me and said, ‘We’re so happy to see you at the top. Seeing someone like you, we feel we’ve got a part in the Australian team, and we support the Australian team. We didn’t do it before, and we do it now,” Khawaja said in an interview from UAE to Espncricinfo The 34-year-old who is in Abu Dhabi to play the UAE leg of the postponed Pakistan Super League, also detailed, how he was always made to feel that he cannot play for Australia. “When I was younger in Australia, the amount of time I got told I was never going to play for Australia, I’m not the right skin colour was immense. I’d get told I don’t fit the team, and they wouldn’t pick me. That was the mentality, but now it’s starting to shift,” said Khawaja ho has so far represented Australia in 44 Tests, 40 ODIs and 9 T20Is. Khawaja was the first person of Islamic religion to play for an Australian cricket team. He even considered once for the captaincy post and does captain his First-Class side Queensland. In 159 First Class Games, the Islamabad born, who would also be representing the team from this city, Islamabad united in the PSL, has scored more than 10,000 runs with 30 centuries to his name.

Sanath Jayasuriya appointed as coach by a Melbourne club following ICC ban

Former Sri Lanka captain Sanath Jayasuriya will be making a cricketing comeback after serving a two-year ICC ban. Jayasuriya will take up the position of the coach at Melbourne club Mulgrave. The former left-handed batsman was banned for breaching the ICC anti-corruption code in 2019. As per a ‘Herald Sun’ report, former all-rounder Dilshan had convinced Jayasuriya for taking up the job. “Dilshan opened the door for us there, and it was a fantastic opportunity that was presented to us,” said Mulgrave president Malin Pullenayegam. “We just had to work on it and come to an agreement, and we have. I think it’s a great opportunity for our young guys to know what international cricket standards are,” he said. “That kind of exposure from a young age just elevates the standard of cricket they’ll be playing,” he added. Dilshan himself will be a part of the Mulgraves line up along with Upul Tharanga who had hung his boots from international cricket earlier this year. Jayasuriya was a part of the Sri Lankan team that won the 1996 50-over World Cup and has featured in 445 ODIs and 110 Tests for Sri Lanka. He scored 6973 runs in Test cricket at an average of over 40 for his side while amassing over 13000 runs in the ODIs. Apart from this, the former skipper was also capped in 31 T20Is scoring 629 runs for the team.

Brendon McCullum commends contrasting but brilliant captaincy of Kane Williamson, Virat Kohli

Former New Zealand captain and predecessor of Kane Williamson, Brendon McCullum commended the ‘brilliant’ leadership of both Kane Williamson and Virat Kohli for their teams’ qualification into the first World Test Championship final. He pointed out that the longest format demands a proactive approach from captains to induce favourable situations and both these leaders have been able to achieve that feat while also leading their sides from the front with the bat in hand. “Both Virat and Kane have led their sides brilliantly. Their own forms have been superb. To be able to qualify for the WTC final is a massive achievement. To reach the final of WTC, the results they needed for a long period. You have to force the situations in Test cricket to garner success in the longest format of the game. Both captains have pushed their teams to excel, and I believe they rightfully deserve the opportunity to play in the final,” McCullum said on Sports Today. However, he did not miss out on detailing the difference in the leadership style of Virat Kohli and Kane Williamson. He underlined Williamson’s calmness while trying to be dominant against Kohli’s ultra-aggressive approach in leading his side. “They are inspirational leaders but lead their teams indifferently. One (Kohli) is out and out aggressive, while the other (Williamson) is a dominant leader but is not as expressive as his counterpart. They are true ambassadors of the game and are the must-watch talents of the present time,” McCullum added. The World Test Championship final will be played in Southampton from June 18 to 22 and both sides will be eager to clinch the trophy to stamp their dominance over the world in the longest format.