The Pakistan Super League (PSL) eighth season, which will begin soon, is being prepared for in full force to make sure it lives up to previous seasons’ high standards.
The PSL opening ceremony is being conducted in Multan for the first time ever. The Multan Cricket Stadium’s grand opening is slated for February 13.
Sahir Ali Bagga and Aima Baig will perform at the opening ceremony alongside Asim Azhar, Shae Gill, and Faris Shafi, who sang the PSL 8 official hymn, according to reports.
The three Coke Studio singers were hired, according to a tweet from the official PSL Twitter account earlier today, to “take the PSL anthem to the next level.”
According to the sources, the opening ceremony would feature augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) for the first time in PSL history. They also said that a drone-powered light show has been prepared to entertain cricket fans around the world.
Under Najam Sethi’s direction, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is committed to making this year’s PSL larger and better. Sethi repeated that the PSL brand has to be updated in his press briefings after regaining control of the PCB.
“The PSL 8 will be a massive event for the PCB, taking place at the four iconic venues with the world’s best T20 cricketers in action. We aim to make the PSL bigger, better and stronger than ever before with the overarching ambition to make it the first-choice event for leading T20 cricketers,” he had said.
Sethi and his team increased PSL’s branding budget from $100,000 to $1 million.
Exhibition Match
To build anticipation for the upcoming matches beginning on February 13, an exhibition game was played in Quetta last week. Over 15,000 spectators watched the historic event despite the bitter weather, necessitating the deployment of 4,000 security personnel for their protection.
On February 5, Quetta Gladiators and Peshawar Zalmi played an exhibition game. The Gladiators overcame the Zalmis by three runs following a thrilling contest that had spectators on the edge of their seats.