The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has received the permission from the UAE authorities to land its chartered flights from Mumbai and Johannesburg carrying members of the broadcasting crew, players and officials of the remainder of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) season six.
Earlier, the remainder of the T20 tournament appeared to be in doubt till Thursday as the UAE authorities had not given permission to the PCB for landing of chartered flights from India and South Africa.
“The Abu Dhabi sports council has now written a letter to its immigration authority to allow the landing of the chartered flights from Mumbai and Johannesburg,” a PCB official said.
Notably, the PCB had faced a delay getting visas for the Indian and South African broadcasting crew members but finally got visas for them on Thursday.
Earlier on Thursday, two chartered flights carrying around 250 players, officials, PCB employees and official broadcasters and their staff landed in Abu Dhabi from Karachi and Lahore.
“The players, officials and other stakeholders have already entered quarantine at their hotels so now the PCB is in a position to announce the fresh schedule of the remaining 20 matches of the PSL,” the official said.
He said now there were no hurdles in organizing the league in Abu Dhabi.
“We are still awaiting some 20 visas for some players and officials of some franchises and we will get them tonight and they will also leave by tomorrow on a chartered flight.”