Should PSL consider banning players who opt out for non-injury reasons?

[FearlessRoar]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1818980003125579997

As the PSL prepares to share a window with the IPL next year, the issue of player availability is likely to become even more pressing. By considering a rule like the one suggested by Maran, the PSL can ensure that teams are not unfairly disadvantaged and that fans get to see the best possible talent on display.

In the past, several high-profile players have opted out of the PSL for reasons other than injury. For example:

Kieron Pollard, a key player for the Karachi Kings, left the team mid-season in 2024 to attend the wedding of Anant Ambani, the son of Indian business tycoon Mukesh Ambani, in India.

What are your suggestions?

 

[pakistani pride]

PSL is no IPL to make such demands.
PSL should be happy if they manage to attract foreign players with some name.

 

[DeadlyVenom]

No

You need to be reasonable when fighting battles.

 

[FearlessRoar]

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[SportsWarrior]

They should, IPL should, BBL should, and everyone should. It is perfectly fine if a player considers a league beneath them and decide not to participate. But once you decide to participate, and a team has accommodated you, it is your professional responsibility to show and do your best. They should ban and ensure players like that are never recruited

 

[The Bald Eagle]

That is too harsh but what else can one expect after spending so much money

 

[Savak]

PCB lacks the financial clout to make this policy work.

 

[kingusama92]

Only the IPL could pull off something like that.

They throw big money contracts at these players and can use this as leverage to get them to listen. PSL or any other league would get laughed at because they're all in the same boat.

As long as players have their IPL contract + national team contract, they will be happy to sacrifice everyone else.

 

[mominsaigol]

Absolutely Not.

 

[Master Blaster]

Like how IPL banned a whole nation when it skipped a season for not cricketing reason?

 

[BouncerGuy]

PSL is not such a big brand that they would be able to pull out such a thing. IPL can do that because they throw a huge sum of money and the payers will fear about their place for the next time so it can work for them but PSL?? I guess not.

 

[cricketjoshila]

IPL teams can do this because most teams own multiple franchisees across leagues. So if they get together to ban anyone, it may affect the player in other leagues as well.

This is usually a problem with English players. And sometimes Aussies. Rest don't create this issue.

BCCI should take up this with ECB. They have been pulling out players at the last moment.

 

[m.shah]

Psl don't have such status . Pakistan should be thankful that few oldies are coming for now to play such low grade unprofessional league.

 

[FastBowlingAllrounder]

They should, IPL should, BBL should, and everyone should. It is perfectly fine if a player considers a league beneath them and decide not to participate. But once you decide to participate, and a team has accommodated you, it is your professional responsibility to show and do your best. They should ban and ensure players like that are never recruited

Can't the onus then fall on the teams and the leagues to not continue signing players that have demonstrated such behaviour in the past? Effectively creating their own informal "blacklist" of players?