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Days after PSL 2021 postponement, Daren Sammy seen playing cricket with locals in Pakistan

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Peshawar Zalmi head coach Daren Sammy was spotted playing cricket with the locals. The Zalmi franchise recently posted a video of Sammy that was captioned, “Peshawar Zalmi Head Coach Daren Sammy stops on his way to play cricket with young cricketers in Lahore!"


Though, it isn’t clear when the video was shot.

Few days back, a non-playing member of a PSL team who had tested positive for COVID-19 was also allowed to leave the bio-bubble and fly back to Lahore. 

The Pakistan Super League (PSL) was earlier postponed midway for an indefinite time with immediate effect after a rise in COVID-19 cases within the league. 

The PCB CEO had earlier said the decision of postponing the league was taken after a discussion with the franchise owners. 

"We had a discussion this morning with the franchise owners and we came to the conclusion that it was best to postpone the event. We entered that meeting with the franchisees with one or two possible solutions, one in terms of looking to halt proceedings for five days until we were able to make sense of what was going on and see whether we could move forward. There was a strong consensus that it was untenable to continue based on the fact that it was outside of ours and others reasonable sort of areas because of what had taken place."





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