PSL-2 is bigger and better: Bazid Khan

By
Faizan Lakhani
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DUBAI: Former test cricketer Bazid Khan said on Saturday that massive improvement in the quality of cricket is observed this season of Pakistan Super League as all the teams had ample time for preparations.   

Speaking exclusively to geo.tv, Khan said: “In the first PSL, foreign players were not sure about the conditions of Dubai and Sharjah but this year we are witnessing back-to-back close matches as the players are now aware of the pitch conditions.”

“Competition within players is high and every team is more or less same in quality. Any team can defeat any other team, and this is the beauty of PSL.”

Khan named Shadab Khan, Usama Mir and Hassan Khan as the star emerging players in the PSL.

He added that as long as the first class system of the country is not focused, Pakistan will struggle to produce quality cricketers. 

"We play domestic cricket from Grays ball, whereas international games are played on kookaburra. Balls make a lot of different," he siad. "Internationally we have to also work on quality of pitches. We must designate a few pitches as the first class pitches. One should not expect quality from pitches which hosts cricket 365 days round the year."

He opined that the other issue which Pakistan cricket faces is that there is no structural cricket available below first class matches.