Franchises to be assessed on gamers’ pathway, infrastructure, grassroots work and welfare
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Friday launched a $200,000 award to acknowledge the franchise that makes the largest contribution to cricket growth, with groups to be assessed on gamers’ pathways, infrastructure, grassroots programmes and participant welfare.
“The PCB has right this moment unveiled the process to award one franchise the distinguished and inaugural HBL PSL Cricket Improvement Excellence Award value USD 200,000. The 2026 award will take into account the event work executed by franchises because the HBL PSL 3 season until the HBL PSL 11, i.e. from the interval throughout which a minimal of six franchises participated within the league,” the PCB stated in a press assertion.
“After the eleventh version of the event, solely the event work executed between two newest editions will probably be thought-about and evaluated for this award.”
It stated that the franchises will self-assess and mark themselves utilizing a scoring mannequin devised by the HBL PSL within the first part and submit it to an evaluation committee formulated by the PCB.
“The five-member committee consists of impartial specialists in addition to inside stakeholders, who will probably be tasked with the duty to confirm and ensure every rating towards the proof equipped, utilizing verifiable information factors. 80 % of the ultimate rating will probably be assessed by means of this mechanism. Thereafter, competing franchises will probably be requested to publish a presentation depicting cricket growth work carried by them on official PSL social media handles.”
Followers will probably be entitled to vote and rank the franchises growth efficiency, and their votes will carry 20 % weightage within the remaining scores.
The scoring mannequin and the weightage of the scores will characteristic: participant pathway and growth (25 %), participant impression and match contribution (10 %), high-performance infrastructure and improvements (15 %), grassroots and home engagement (20 %), participant welfare and training (10 %), fan voting through social media (20 %).
Scoring tips will probably be offered to followers on the time of voting.
“The participant pathway and growth key efficiency indicator (KPI) will cope with new or uncapped expertise recognized by franchises, their growth, their development and cricket publicity offered to them past HBL PSL.”
The PCB stated that the participant impression and match contribution KPI will consider a scouted and new discovered participant’s impression trajectory, match deciding impression and position growth with a respective franchise.
“The high-performance infrastructure and improvements KPI combines institutional capability, services, staffing and techniques, with technology-led innovation. The participant welfare and training KPI offers with the monetary literacy and training assist offered by franchises to gamers together with issues like psychological well being assist techniques, media coaching, anti-doping and anti-corruption training and profession transition plans.”
“Grassroots and Home Engagement KPI will consider the work executed by franchises in males’s and girls’s cricket growth, association of teaching clinics for youths, Faculty and membership cricket initiatives and participation in PCB-organized cricket,” it stated.