Pakistan and Rawalpindiz pacer Naseem Shah has been ruled out of PSL 2026 due to a side injury he sustained during Rawalpindiz's match against Karachi Kings. This comes days after the PCB fined him a record PKR 20 million (₹68 lakh) over a deleted tweet that appeared to criticise Pakistan's Punjab CM Maryam Nawaz. Naseem later apologised for the post.