Karachi Kings and Yayvo.com joined hands for Karachi Kings official merchandise partnership for the PSL season 3. The exclusive line-up of Karachi Kings merchandise will be available from 9th February 2018 on Yayvo.com ready to be delivered to the customers across Pakistan.
Yayvo.com, Pakistan’s leading e-commerce platform is all set to launch ‘Yayvo Cricket Festival’ starting from February 15, 2018. This was communicated at a press conference held at a local hotel in Karachi on February 07, 2018.
The press conference was arranged to announce the launch of the month-long Yayvo Cricket Festival and Yayvo.com’s exclusive merchandise partnership with Karachi Kings. Yayvo will offer a host of discounted offers along with kits, shirts, jerseys and other Karachi Kings merchandise exclusively.
Tickets for the PSL matches being held in Pakistan will be sold online by Yayvo.com and TCS, Pakistan’s leading express and logistics service provider.
M.A. Mannan, President, and CEO, TCS Holdings (Pvt.) Ltd, Salman Iqbal, Owner Karachi Kings and Salman Hassan, CEO, Yayvo.com addressed the press.
President and CEO TCS Holdings, M. A. Mannan said, “We thank PCB and Karachi Kings for placing its trust in our ability to manage a delicate task. We were aware of the issues that cricket fans had to face in the recent past to get tickets and made sure to provide them relief. TCS has always taken challenging tasks head on in the past and will continue to do so in the future as well.”
Expressing his views about the partnership, Owner Karachi Kings Salman Iqbal said, “We are excited to be a part of this initiative. Karachi Kings is Karachi’s very own team and I am positive that they will reach the finals this time.” He also shared his big plans for this season of PSL as the final is scheduled to be played in Karachi.
The Courier Service, with a motto “We Move You,” signed a Merchandising deal with PSL’s most expensive and popular franchise Karachi Kings in a jam packed Hotel Hall attended by the owner of Karachi Kings Salman Iqbal, TCS high ups, captain of KK Imad Wasim, a few members of KK, members of showbiz and . Through the deal the TCS promises to deliver the Blue & Red T-shirt of Karachi Kings to the fans within two hours of placing of the order.
TCS Holding President and CEO M. A. Mannan admitted the cricket crazy nation cannot be moved without the sport.
TCS’s hassle-free ticketing system helped the fans avoid long queues and had the luxury of getting the October 30 Twenty20 match tickets with comfort after booking them on net.
Mannan also announced other franchises will also be using TCS for their merchandising. But the more welcoming news for the PSL fans came later.
“We have a three-year contract with the PCB to help the fans get tickets of all the PSL matches that will be hosted in Pakistan. So for the first time fans can get their tickets of the two PSL play-offs and the final this year in a hassle-free arrangements from TCS,” announced Mannan.
The third edition of the PSL starts in UAE from February while the final is slated for Karachi on March 25. Lahore will host two of the three play-offs.
“We thank PCB and Karachi Kings for placing its trust in our ability to manage a delicate task.
We were aware of the issues that cricket fans had to face in the recent past to get tickets and made sure to provide them relief. TCS has always taken challenging tasks head on in the past and will continue to do so in the future as well,” said Mannan.
Salman Iqbal promised the TCS-KK arrangement will help the fans a great deal.
“We are excited to be a part of this initiative and since Karachi Kings is Karachi’s very own team and I am pretty sure that they will reach the final this time,” said Salman.
“We used to get a lot of complaints from the fans over not getting the T-shirt so I am sure with TCS joining hands the fans will get T-shirts within two hours as TCS have close to 9,000 centers in the country and some 2500 in Sindh,” said Salman, who also hoped his team will do better.
“We have a good team with the mega star Shahid Afridi in the team. No one can guarantee that it will win the trophy but we will be more competitive and PSL will see more competitive cricket this time as we now have six teams with the introduction of Multan Sultan,” said Salman.
Karachi King’s official song for PSL 3 was also launched during the ceremony. Famous Pakistan singer Shahzad Roy sang the song much to the applause of the fans. The special thing about the song is that Shahid Afridi has also shown his singing talent in the song.
“There is a TCS center at every 15 minute walk so we can guarantee that the fans will get a T-shirt within two hours and this will help our merchandising,” said Salman.
KK captain Imad Wasim hoped his team will do well.
“You can’t guarantee the win but I can assure that we will fight and work hard,” said Imad, who admitted Afridi’s presence will help. “People ask me that how will you handle Afridi as captain so I tell them that he is so supportive that it won’t be difficult.”