14 May 2025

Pakistan Super League to resume, Kiwis to make own decision on returning

8:59 am on 14 May 2025
Vendors pack their belongings as they leave Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium following the postponement of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) match after the alleged shooting of a drone outside the stadium in Rawalpindi on May 8, 2025.

Vendors pack their belongings as they leave Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium following the postponement of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) match after the alleged shooting of a drone outside the stadium in Rawalpindi on May 8, 2025. Photo: AFP

The Pakistan Super League will resume on Saturday after it was suspended because of the fighting between Pakistan and India.

A ceasefire was agreed at the weekend and the Indian Premier League announced on Tuesday that they would resume their competition on Saturday.

New Zealand Cricket said it was up to individual players to make their own decision about returning to Pakistan or India.

All nine of the New Zealanders involved in the PSL returned to New Zealand while Rachin Ravindra, Devon Conway and Trent Boult returned from the Indian Premier League.

Mitchell Santner and Bevon-John Jacobs both stayed in India.

The Pakistan tournament was suspended over safety concerns on 8 May, and plans to play the rest of the matches in the United Arab Emirates were then scrapped.

There are eight games remaining, with the final to be played on 25 May - one week later than its originally scheduled date.

All remaining matches will be played in Rawalpindi and Lahore.

The IPL still has 12 group matches left, which will be played in the cities of Bengaluru, Jaipur, Delhi, Lucknow, Mumbai and Ahmedabad.

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