Former Pakistan pacer and commentator Wasim Akram has questioned the Pakistan Super League (PSL) for not producing a single batting talent over the past 10 years since the league’s inception.
Speaking to Furqan Bhatti on the latter’s YouTube channel, the former pacer admitted that PSL has produced some good bowlers while the tournament struggled to develop good enough batting talent.
Further, Akram also cited the 15-year-old batting prodigy Vaibhav Sooryavanshi as an example for emerging as an exceptional batting talent emerging from the Indian Premier League (IPL). Apart from Sooryavanshi, IPL has unearthed talents like Ayush Mhatre, Mukul Choudhary, Priyansh Arya, and Kartik Sharma.
“It has been 10 years since the PSL started, but has a single batter been produced by the PSL? Yes we have produced a few bowlers but tell me have we produced any noteworthy batting talent? I think when we produce a batting talent like the 15-year old (Sooryavanshi) then we will see improvements coming through,” Wasim Akram said.
On the other hand, PSL 2026 campaign unearthed young bowling talents like Sufiyan Muqeem, Ali Raza and Hunain Shah.
Delving into the records of the 15-year-old batter, Sooryavanshi took only 440 balls to reach his 1000-run milestone in the IPL, becoming the fastest to reach the landmark. He also smashed 72 sixes in the campaign, the most by any batter in an IPL season. He also set a new benchmark by becoming the first batter to score over 500 runs in the powerplay overs during a single season.
“Club cricket needs to be revived if we want improvement in red-ball cricket. The PCB should spend 100 million rupees each in Karachi and Lahore, as talent comes from club cricket,” he concluded.
