Video- In the first match of PSL, players’ jerseys started losing color, the ball changed from white to pink.

PSL 2026 Pink Ball : Pakistani players and their fans have always compared IPL to PSL, but the reality is that both the leagues cannot be compared in any parameter. Which includes everything from organizing matches to players’ salaries. Meanwhile, something happened in the new season of PSL, which explains the poor condition of this league. In the opening match of the Pakistani League, the players’ jerseys started losing color.

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Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2026 started without fans on Thursday at Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. In this match, Lahore Qalandars under the captaincy of Shaheen Afridi and Hyderabad Kingsmen of Marnus Labuschagne were face to face. Lahore Qalandars won this match by 69 runs, but a strange incident in this match attracted everyone’s attention. In which the color of the white ball turned pink in the middle of the match. After which the umpires were seen changing the ball.

Peak Pakistan Super League standards😭

During the very first match of PSL 11, the ball literally turned pink every time Hyderabad Kingsmen players rubbed it on their kit.

Did they get knockoff kits instead of authentic ones?

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International league or gully-level experiment? 🤡 pic.twitter.com/Beq5zhmSkb

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The umpires changed the ball after the 15th over of Qalandars’ innings. Regarding which different claims are being made on social media. Some users claimed that the players’ jerseys started losing color and the ball turned pink because the players were rubbing the jerseys to increase the shine of the ball. On the other hand, some users claimed that this happened due to the players rubbing the ball on the ground. At present, PSL is being made a joke after this incident.

Pakistani players and their fans have consistently compared the PSL to the IPL, yet the two leagues cannot be compared on any metric. The opening match of the new PSL season starkly illustrated the league’s dismal state, as the players’ jerseys began to bleed color. pic.twitter.com/5FbzsocrD2

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When Hyderabad Kingsmen captain Marnus Labuschagne was asked about this incident, he feared that it might happen due to the color of the jersey coming off. He said, “I mean, after the second over I said to the umpire, ‘What is happening? The ball is red. It must be because of the clothes or something like that. I have never seen anything like this before.'”