{"id":1575,"date":"2026-02-09T16:07:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2026-02-09T16:07:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:07:49","slug":"multan-sultans-auctioned-for-rs2-45bn-rawalpindi-set-to-be-new-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/?p=1575","title":{"rendered":"Multan Sultans auctioned for Rs2.45bn; Rawalpindi set to be new name"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ahead of the beginning of the Pakistan Super League season 11, the Multan Sultans has been auctioned for Rs2.45 billion.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was also announced that the new name of the team would be changed to Rawalpindi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAre you ready for a surprise? We will be going for Rawalpindi!\u201d announced the company\u2019s chief executive officer, Ahsan Tahir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Walee Tech bought the team after a thrilling competition which lasted almost for an hour. The base price of the Sultans was set at Rs1.82 billion.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The auction ceremony was attended by Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Mohsin Naqvi and former PCB chairman Najam Sethi, underscoring the significance of the event. Legendary former Pakistan batsman Zaheer Abbas was also present at the auction, adding further prestige to the proceedings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After former owner Ali Tareen decided not to renew the franchise\u2019s ownership, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) opted to manage Multan Sultans itself for the current season. However, following the successful auction of two new PSL teams, the PCB later decided to put the Multan Sultans franchise up for auction as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking on the occasion, PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi said that efforts were made to sell the Multan Sultans franchise at a good price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He revealed that he spoke to the prime minister twice over the phone during the bidding, adding that the PM was also enthusiastic about the proceedings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the beginning of the Pakistan Super League season 11, the Multan Sultans has been auctioned for Rs2.45 billion.&nbsp; It was also announced that the new name of the team would be changed to Rawalpindi. \u201cAre you ready for a surprise? We will be going for Rawalpindi!\u201d announced the company\u2019s chief executive officer, Ahsan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions\/1577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}