SA20 commissioner and former South Africa star Graeme Smith said the aim was to make the new league the second most popular in the world behind the IPL.
Captain Babar Azam wore the same jersey during the ceremony of the revealing of the trophy for the seven-match Pakistan-England T20I 2022 series. The series will begin from Karachi’s National Stadium.
The Taliban government freed Mark Frerichs, who was working as a civil engineer on construction projects in Afghanistan when he was detained 31 months ago.
Azam was the highest scorer in last year's Twenty20 World Cup held in the United Arab Emirates, with 303 runs in a tournament where Pakistan crashed out in the semi-finals.