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• Pakistani legend Shoaib Malik set to host Masterclass with Malik – a dedicated cricket coaching show to be televised on A Sports
• Budding cricketers can learn basic drills and improve their cricketing skills
• Show features sessions with Pakistani stars Wasim Akram, Misbah ul Haq, Sana Mir, Umar Gul, Saeed Ajmal, Moin Khan, and Azam Khan
• Special episode features Pakistan’s national team players

Pakistan’s leading sports channel A Sports is launching Masterclass with Malik – a new cricket coaching TV show with ace Pakistan all-rounder Shoaib Malik.

Masterclass with Malik unpacks former Pakistan captain and all-rounder Shoaib Malik’s experience in a show that aims to help young cricketers in improving their skills. The show also features episodes with some of Pakistan’s best talent, including Wasim Akram, Moin Khan, Misbah-ul-Haq, Sana Mir, Umar Gul, Saeed Ajmal, and Azam Khan.

A special episode featuring Pakistan national team players Imam-ul-Haq, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Shan Masood, and Hasan Ali is also set to be part of the show.

Shoaib Malik is one of Pakistan’s most experienced cricketers, having played 446 international games.

In a career spanning more than two decades, Malik has so far amassed 11,387 international runs and picked up 218 international wickets.

He was appointed Pakistan’s captain in 2007 when he led the team to the final of the 2007 T20 World Cup. Malik was part of Pakistan’s winning team at the 2009 T20 World Cup and at the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy.

Shoaib Malik: “I have played with and against so many players and there is so much that I have managed to learn over the years. Masterclass with Malik is my attempt to give something back to the young learners out there.

I want to thank the A Sports team for their support in putting this together with me and I hope that the viewers will enjoy seeing our hard work on their screens.”

With this exciting new cricket coaching show, A Sports continues to enhance its content portfolio for sports fans in Pakistan. In a little less than two years, A Sports has successfully showcased the Pakistan Super League, bilateral matches featuring the Pakistan Cricket Team, ICC Men’s and Women’s T20 World Cups, the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, SA20, Lanka Premier League, Major League Cricket, Canada Global T20, Fair Break Invitational T20, Formula 1, and La Liga.

A Sports is set to bring more live cricket to its fans with this year’s ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup starting on October 5 along with the channel’s signature cricket analysis show called The Pavilion.

READ: Imam-ul-Haq rises in ICC ODI Batting Rankings

KARACHI: ARY Digital Network has once again announced an exciting update for sports lovers in Pakistan as the La Liga season 2023-24 will be broadcasted live on Pakistan’s first HD sports channel A Sports HD and ARY ZAP.

After successfully broadcasting the FIFA World Cup in Qatar in 2022 and the previous edition of La Liga, A Sports HD and ARY ZAP will air the next edition of the Spanish league.

Notably, ARY Digital Network successfully secured the rights to the next two La Liga seasons in August last year.

Viewers in Pakistan can watch the event live on A Sports or stream it through the ARY ZAP application.

Administered by the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional, it is contested by 20 teams, with the three lowest-placed teams at the end of each season being relegated to the Segunda División and replaced by the top two teams and a play-off winner in that division.

La Liga has been the top league in Europe in each of the seven years from 2013 to 2019 (calculated using accumulated figures from five preceding seasons) and has led Europe for 22 of the 60 ranked years up to 2019, more than any other country.

La Liga Season 2023-24 will commence on August 12.

La Liga will embark with the home side Almeria taking on Rayo Vallecano in the curtain raiser at Power Horse Stadium on August 11. Whereas, Barcelona will be competing in the event to defend their title.

Known for promoting sports in the country, Mr Salman Iqbal- who also owns Pakistan Super League (PSL) franchise Karachi Kings- has the honour of launching Pakistan’s first HD sports channel A-Sports in October 2021.

A-Sports has previously aired ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021 and 2022, PSL Season 2022 and 2023, major bilateral series of the Pakistan cricket team, Formula 1 Grand Prix Season 2022-23, SA20, Major League Cricket, FairBreak Invitational, Karachi Open Squash Championship among other major sports events.

Pakistan’s first HD Sports channel also airs the ongoing Lanka Premier League (LPL).

ARY ZAP, the popular app owned by ARY Digital Network, recently, live-streamed the five-match ODI and T20I series between Pakistan and New Zealand, earlier in April-May.

LAHORE: The CEO and President of ARY Digital Network, Mr. Salman Iqbal shared the reason to make a record bid for Pakistan Super League (PSL)’s Tv broadcast rights. 

In a video message after PCB signed Tv broadcast rights deal with ARY-PTV, Mr. Salman said their goal was to support the only cricketing brand of Pakistan financially.

“We made record bid for PSL’s Tv broadcast rights because our collective plan was to support our brand financially. See, PSL is a festivity for cricket fans in the country so ARY and PTV came together to make this festival more exciting for them,” Mr. Salman said.

“Neither we nor PTV have any plans to earn money from it. To be honest, it was very tough to make such a high bid in current scenario where international market is suffering due to COVID-19. But as I said, we wanted to support PSL financially,” he added.

📹 CEO ARY Mr. Salman Iqbal shares his thoughts on the #HBLPSL7 broadcast rights agreement.

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— PakistanSuperLeague (@thePSLt20) January 10, 2022

The owner of the most followed franchise of the PSL, Karachi Kings, thanked PCB, all other franchise owners, and fans for making this league bigger and better every passing year.

“PSL had restructured cricketing map in Pakistan. We hadn’t thought of this success seven years ago when this league was launched. Seven years to now, every single individual involved in it, deserves credit,” he said.

“I would like to thank our fans and PCB especially. Without their support, it wasn’t possible to come this far,” he concluded.

READ: A-Sports will promote every single sport in Pakistan: Mr Salman Iqbal