Pakistan pacer Wahab Riaz has reckoned that the bowling standards of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) is miles ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL) or any other league in the world but also praised the things which make the Indian T20 tournament special beside placing it at ‘a different level’ globally.
Notably, Wahab Riaz, who has played in various franchise-based leagues like the Caribbean Premier League (CPL), Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), features for Peshawar Zalmi in the PSL.
“If there is any league that stands behind IPL, it has to be the PSL. The league in Pakistan has proved it. The standards of bowling are quite high,” Wahab told Cricket Pakistan.
“The kind of bowlers you get in the PSL is not found in other leagues, not even the IPL. This is why PSL doesn’t have many high-scoring games. The bowling attacks in PSL are the best in the world,” he opined.
Meanwhile, praising the IPL, he further expressed: “IPL is a league where all the top international players come and play. You can’t compare IPL with PSL, I believe IPL is at a different level. Their commitments, the way they run things, communicate things, the way they draft the players, all that is totally different. I don’t think any league can compete with the IPL.”
Significantly, due to political tension between the two nations, cricketers from Pakistan are not allowed to play in the IPL and even bilateral series between them has been on hold.