Kamran Akmal

Uthappa's 24 off nine went in vain for Atlanta Riders

Akmal will also chair the five-member junior selection committee

PSL 2023 will be played between February 9 and March 19

Irshad's yorkers put Islamabad in trouble before Azam, Faheem and Dawson closed out the chase

"We respect his feelings but once I explained to him, he understood," says head coach Mohammad Akram

The wicketkeeper-batter was brought down from Diamond to Gold, and finally picked in Silver, following a PCB rejig of the player categories

Captain returns 3 for 5 and then smashes 19-ball 45* to shut out Central Punjab in title clash

Iftikhar blasted KP to the final in a thriller against Northern, while Central Punjab secured a more routine win against Sindh

The 479 runs scored were the most in a single match in PSL history

The 61-run defeat means the Gladiators now have just one win in seven matches

Here is part 2 of our team-by-team guide to the new Pakistan Super League season

Kamran Akmal, Abdullah Shafique and Haider Ali among the heavy scorers on the day in Multan

A vintage Kamran Akmal century made light work of a modest target of 149 set by Quetta Gladiators.

He is said to have exposed himself in frustration and faces the prospect of being kicked out of the next domestic tournament

A young tearaway, a leggie who's already created waves, and established T20 stars make up the best of the tournament

Defending champions shot out by a clinical Peshawar, who, with their 48-run win, reached the trophy match for the third successive year

Colin Ingram was the only player to offer Peshawar Zalmi any resistance, scoring a classy half-century, but it wasn't enough

He may have been cast out into the wilderness by the Pakistan cricket team, but Umar Akmal found a way back into the country's collective conscience with an unbeaten 50-ball 76

Mohammad Amir picked up a five-wicket haul for SSGC, while Iftikhar Ahmed scored more in one innings for SNGPL than Lahore Blues managed in either of theirs