{"id":608329,"date":"2026-04-15T11:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/608329\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T11:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:14:08","slug":"former-pakistan-batter-tears-apart-reporters-for-ipl-and-psl-comparisons-lacking-common-sense-hammers-rilee-rossouw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/608329\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Pakistan batter tears apart reporters for IPL and PSL comparisons lacking \u2018common sense\u2019, hammers Rilee Rossouw"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the Indian Premier League<\/a> and Pakistan Super League<\/a> taking place simultaneously in the two neighbouring countries, the focus has perhaps been a little too much towards the IPL, even in Pakistan. This came into focus in this past week as a number of international stars were asked to compare the PSL to the IPL \u2013 something that has annoyed Pakistan cricketers for how humiliating the question becomes, including former batter Ahmad Shahzad.<\/p>\n

\"RileeRilee Rossouw in action in the PSL. (AFP)<\/p>\n

Speaking on his YouTube channel, Shahzad dressed down the members of the press who were responsible for prompting questions to Kusal Mendis and Rilee Rossouw that tried to pit the IPL against the PSL, as well as criticising the South African\u2019s response.<\/p>\n

\u201cKusal Mendis is playing and performing in the PSL, and he is being asked about how he left last year to go play in the IPL. Look at what you\u2019re doing,\u201d Shahzad said sternly, not happy with the member of the press who had posed this question and subsequently earned nothing but silence from the Sri Lankan.<\/p>\n

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More concerning for Shahzad was the question posed to Rossouw to compare the teams, as well as the Protea batter\u2019s response to it \u2013 particularly given that he has had a poor time of things in the PSL.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen you look at Rilee Roussow \u2013 you watch his performance and you can\u2019t tell what is happening, what isn\u2019t happening, but he is choosing to slander,\u201d said Shahzad. \u201cThey are asking him what he thinks of IPL \u2013 now during PSL, you can\u2019t appreciate the IPL. He said it\u2019s a Bollywood movie, and that the competitiveness is here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shahzad demands \u2018technical\u2019 answers to comparisons<\/p>\n

Rossouw has only 79 runs in four PSL matches for Quetta Gladiators, not a great return \u2013 but the South African batter hasn\u2019t had particularly remarkable performances in his IPL stints with RCB, DC, or PBKS either.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen someone is taking money from you while playing PSL, do you think he will say IPL is number one? So it\u2019s not a serious question,\u201d continued Shahzad, hammering the reporter for asking such a question. \u201cIf he doesn\u2019t say PSL, won\u2019t they make his life hell? There\u2019s very few people who can work with honesty.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Shahzad provided a concerted set of reasons for why the IPL has outpaced the PSL \u2013 to do largely with the quality of domestic talent but also the international stars who turn up for each tournament, and how the quality of cricket demanded in the IPL is simply a tier above.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no comparison between them, you need to make a question with some common sense. There was no purpose for this question, but even if they say it, you have to give a technical answer. It sounds like Rossouw has released some personal anger on the IPL,\u201d said Shahzad, suggesting that it was a biased response by the South African.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the Indian Premier League and Pakistan Super League taking place simultaneously in the two neighbouring countries, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,13849,82915,142638,267526,205783,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-608329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-indian-premier-league","12":"tag-kusal-mendis","13":"tag-pakistan-super-league","14":"tag-psl-vs-ipl","15":"tag-rilee-rossouw","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}