The Abu Dhabi government allowed the Pakistan Cricket Board to hosts the remainder of 20 games of Pakistan Super League’ sixth edition in the United Arab Emirates. However, the conditions imposed by the Emirates health advisory made it almost impossible for PCB to pursue its plans of hosting, thus making it postpone the league which was going to restart from June 1. Pakistani media reported that the reasons for postponement are many.
The first condition put by UAE to get everybody travelling to the Gulf nation vaccinated was almost impossible for PCB to fulfil in such limited time as players and crew members of production are from different countries and have different laws and rules regulating vaccination in their nations.
The second and bigger problem for the cricket governing body and the six franchises of the league could be the fact that most of the TV production crew is from India and UEA have banned travel from India as of now due to an unprecedented rise in Covid-19 cases in the South Asian country. Thus quarantine for all the members of the hosting party at the same time doesn't seem possible
To discuss all that and various other things regarding the league, the PCB and the franchises held a meeting on May 19 and come up with the solution of postponement.
The initial phase of PSL-6 hosted entirely in Pakistan was forced to stop after many players in the bio-bubble tested positive. The league started on February 20 and the last game before its postponement was played on March 3.