PSL: Peshawar to follow Man United blueprint for youth academy

Unsung cricketers from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) region will not only get a look-in by Peshawar Zalmi, the franchise will also help them find a toehold in the English county league, team owner Javed Afridi has said.



Afridi said a “mega plan” for a cricket academy, established along the lines of the Manchester United Foundation, has been put in place to unearth local talent once the inaugural edition of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) is over.

“The whole idea behind this franchise is to promote the players from the North who have often been neglected in the past,” Afridi said to explain what his team represented.

But Afridi, who is the CEO of HNR Company (Haier Manufacturing Unit) that has for long backed Pakistan cricket, did not respond to a specific question regarding which cricketer from KPK he felt had been given the short shrift by the national selectors.

Afridi had spoken of his KPK-driven agenda in an email interview earlier, saying he wanted to develop the cricket infrastructure around the game “in his homeland” as Peshawar and KPK were “close to his heart”.
Now, the franchise-owner said, the team and the academy would be endeavours where those “dreams will indeed come true by the grace of the Almighty”.

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