“Not far off the IPL”: Michael Vaughan hails Pakistan Super League as second-best T20 tournament in the world

Gurpreet Singh | 01/02/2022
"Not far off the IPL": Michael Vaughan hails Pakistan Super League as second-best T20 tournament in the world

Michael Vaughan hails Pakistan Super League and its standard of quality of Cricket as second best in the world at the moment.

The seventh season of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) is up and running with the 8th match of the marquee tournament currently undergoing between Multan Sultans and Islamabad United at the National Stadium in Karachi.

The tournament will comprise of a total of 34 matches, with Karachi hosting a total of 15 of them and Lahore in-charge of the business end.

The PSL, with its inception in the year 2016, has unarguably helped Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) massively in bringing International Cricket back to the country.

With the participation of Overseas players increasing with each edition of the league, Pakistan’s premier T20 tournament is right up there in terms of quality when compared with other T20 leagues in the world.

Michael Vaughan hails Pakistan Super League

Former England batter and skipper Michael Vaughan, on Tuesday took to his social media handle to speak highly of the T20 league. The 47-year-old even went on to remark that it is the second best T20 tournament of world, and is not far off from the IPL either in terms of quality of Cricket.

Vaughan’s statement comes at a time when as many as 22 players from England are currently partaking in the league. The likes of Alex Hales, Chris Jordan, Samit Patel, Joe Clark, Lewis Gregory, David Willey, Ben Duckett, Tom Kohler-Cadmore and Ben Dunk are some of the English T20 stars who have already played a game or two for their respective franchises in the ongoing season.

England’s cricket board had faced quite some flak from fans and former cricketers after a controversial cancellation of their tour of both the men’s and the women’s side to Pakistan in September last year.

Following the criticism, the ECB have made amends with a renegotiation with the PCB. The England men’s side are now scheduled to tour Pakistan twice later this year.

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Gurpreet Singh is a Cricket writer at The Sportsrush. His platonic relationship with sports had always been there since childhood, but Cricket managed to strike a special, intimate nerve of his heart. Although his initial dream of playing the sport at the highest level couldn't come to fruition, Gurpreet did represent the state of Jharkhand at the under-14 level. However, almost like taking a pledge to never let the undying passion for Cricket fade away even a tad, he made sure to continue the love relationship by assigning the field of journalism as an indirect Cupid. He thus, first finished his bachelor's in journalism and then pursued the PG Diploma course in English journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC). Soon after and since 2019, he has been working at The Sportsrush. Apart from sports, he takes keen interest in politics, and in understanding women and gender-related issues.

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