Afghanistan’s Rahmanullah Gurbaz performs a shot throughout their ICC Males’s T20 World Cup match towards New Zealand on the Windfall Stadium, Georgetown on June 7, 2024. — ICC
Afghanistan batter Rahmanullah Gurbaz has withdrawn from the upcoming eleventh version of the Pakistan Tremendous League (PSL), citing “personal commitments”.
Gurbaz took to Instagram to add a video in his native Pushto, explaining the rationale for his withdrawal.
“I will not be available for the PSL due to some personal commitments. After the World Cup, I will be returning to Afghanistan,” he mentioned within the video.
“I’ll be focusing more on my foundation work in Afghanistan. Thank you for all the love and support,” Gurbaz wrote within the caption of his publish.
His announcement comes simply days after Peshawar Zalmi introduced him as their direct signing forward of the PSL participant public sale, scheduled for February 11.
The 2017 PSL champions confirmed the signing of the Afghanistan worldwide on February 5 by way of their official social media handles.
The announcement featured a graphical poster of Gurbaz carrying a conventional turban towards a mountainous backdrop. The franchise, nonetheless, didn’t disclose the signing quantity.
Gurbaz has been a key determine within the Afghanistan males’s cricket workforce since his worldwide debut in 2019, representing his nation in two Assessments, 52 ODIs, and 83 T20Is.
He’s additionally some of the sought-after Afghan gamers in international franchise leagues, having appeared within the Indian Premier League (IPL), Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), Caribbean Premier League (CPL), SA20, and ILT20.
Within the PSL, Gurbaz has performed three seasons, that includes for Multan Sultans in 2021 and Islamabad United in 2022 and 2023. Throughout 15 PSL matches, he has scored 318 runs at a mean of twenty-two.71, together with one half-century.
In the meantime, Peshawar Zalmi have retained key gamers forward of the PSL 11 public sale.
Babar Azam leads the listing within the Platinum class with a retention of Rs70 million, adopted by Sufiyan Muqeem in Diamond (Rs44.8 million), Abdul Samad in Gold (Rs28 million) and Ali Raza within the Rising class (Rs19.6 million).
The franchise has to date spent Rs162.4 million of its complete Rs450 million public sale finances.
The eleventh version of the Pakistan Tremendous League is scheduled to start on March 26 and conclude on Could 3.
