The Afghani Cricket Board has introduced its plans to arrange the following installment of the Afghanistan Premier League in 2025 after the IPL.
This information comes on the identical day as Afghanistan’s historic win over Bangladesh within the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 within the USA and West Indies. The Rashid Khan-led facet has turn out to be the primary Afghanistani facet to achieve the semi-finals of an ICC event since their introduction to the sport of Cricket.
Afghanistan had by no means made it to the knock-out rounds of any specific occasion and this marks the primary time the nation has been among the many final fours. It’s a second that Afghan followers in addition to cricket lovers around the globe will embrace and cherish endlessly. Their win additionally reiterates the purpose that the game is rising in smaller nations.
A war-ridden nation like Afghanistan reaching the semis is a large factor and for a truth, nobody noticed this coming. In the meanwhile, they’ve performed higher cricket than the likes of New Zealand, West Indies, Pakistan, and Australia who discover themselves out of the competitors.
Afghanistan will now face South Africa in one of many two semi-finals with the opposite one going down between India and England.
ACB confirms plans of re-launching APL in 2025
In response to our trusted sources, the Afghanistan Cricket Board ideated the re-launch of the nation’s franchise league that’s the APL. The event might have taken place this 12 months itself however as a result of congestion of matches all through the 2024 calendar 12 months. Due to this fact, months after the 2025 IPL version.
Attributable to Afghanistan’s home scheduling in addition to different worldwide commitments, the ACB is reluctant to arrange APL this 12 months. The Board’s CEO Naseeb Khan instructed Cricbuzz that their Premier franchise league is within the pipeline and on the playing cards to happen in 20245 after the IPL re-brands and re-launch the league altogether.
“We’re decided to re-launch the APL and dealing on it to make that occur. We hope to begin the event subsequent 12 months as this 12 months we do not have a lot time due to our worldwide commitments and home schedule and so we hope to re-launch the APL at a while after the following IPL.” – Naseeb Khan mentioned by way of Cricbuzz.
Naseeb Khan reveals ACB has obtained bids from varied corporations
Naseeb Khan additionally revealed that the ACB has already obtained numerous bids from Tom corporations to put money into the APL and purchase franchises. The Board has already shortlisted a number of corporations which can be mentioned by the highest officers within the system earlier than the beginning of the next steps.
“We had a bidding course of and numerous corporations confirmed curiosity and now we now have shortlisted some corporations from the lengthy record and now we’ll put them on board and after getting approval we’ll begin our subsequent plan of action.” – Khan concluded.
The primary season of APL befell within the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 2018 with Balkh Legends profitable the inaugural version.
