PCB all set to lift ban on ICL players
on February 11th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is all set to lift the ban on its Indian Cricket League (ICL) players on Wednesday (today).
PCB chairman Ijaz Butt is due to address a press conference in Lahore, soon after PCB legal adviser, Shan Gul visits the Sindh High court in Karachi to give the PCB’s version on the ban on ICL players.
The court last week suspended the ban on the players, paving the way for their return to first class cricket. There were then demands from the players for a return to international cricket. However the PCB, according to sources, passed the court judgement to the International Cricket Council (ICC) who reiterated their stance that it was upto respective countries to deal with the issue.
Around 21 players who featured in the ICL were barred from playing in and for Pakistan as the league was not recognised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and by the ICC.
Butt, last week, urged star batsman Mohammad Yousuf to snap his ties with the ICL to get his place in the national side back.
Butt, after attending ICC’s meeting in Octber last year, had said that ICC and BCCI were on weaker legal grounds if the ICL took them to court over recognition. At the meeting, the ICC deferred a decision on the ICL’s application for recognition.
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Finally some sense prevailed, it is still not clear if the banned players will be made available for selection for the upcoming Srilankan test series.
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