‘We don’t understand PCB’s arguments’: Nadeem Omar on PSL financial model

Quetta Gladiators owner believes PCB needs to come up with a financial model that benefits all the stakeholders involved

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Quetta Gladiators’ owner, Nadeem Omar, has said that Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) needs to come up with a financial model that benefits all the stakeholders involved.

While speaking in an exclusive interview to Cricket Pakistan, Quetta Gladiators said there should be regular meetings between PCB and PSL franchises, so that they can arrive at a solution regarding the aforementioned issue as soon as possible.

“We are working with PCB on the financial model. PCB needs to understand that we have put our time and money in PSL. What sort of financial model is this, in which one partner is enjoying while others are suffering? This issue can be and should be solved amicably,” said Omar.

“PCB presents certain arguments, which we honestly don’t understand. There is one cake, so PCB needs to decrease their share of that. They need to realize that PSL franchises have made a lot of sacrifices. PCB Chairman Ehsan Mani has assured us that there will be regular meetings from now on, in which we will work on a formula regarding the financial model,” he added.

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The PSL 6 was postponed on March 4, due to multiple Covid-19 cases among players and support staff, with 20 matches remaining. The PCB has already announced that Karachi will host the remainder of matches in the month of June. Omar believes PCB should have been better prepared in terms of creating a bio-secure bubble for PSL 6.

“If we start blame game, it won’t stop. So blame game won’t benefit anyone. We were maybe 10 percent to blame and that too because PCB didn’t enforce any rules on us. PCB, as an organising party, was supposed to enforce the rules and they failed to do so,” he said.

“Now the plan is to gather the players and officials till 23 or 24 May, so they can quarantine for six to seven days. The league can start from the first week of June, so we can wind it up in 18 days. This is the only available window for us,” he added.