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Jun10

Pakistan seek to replace Arafat with Razzaq

by wasim on June 10th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Posted In: Cricket, Cricket Pakistan

In a welcome move, PCB has formally applied with the ICC to replace injured all rounder Arafat with Razzaq.

Finally some sense prevailed in PCB head quarter.

The request was sent to the ICC’s technical committee and, though there’s no official confirmation it has been accepted, sources close to the Pakistan camp and the player claimed it had.

“We have made a request to the ICC for Abdul Razzaq as a replacement,” Ijaz Butt, the PCB chairman, told Cricinfo. “He is an allrounder and we’ve requested he replace Arafat, who is also an allrounder.”

Razzaq’s name was on the original list of 30 probables the PCB had sent to the ICC in early April – before the BCCI announced the amnesty – but the board u-turned and scratched his name off because the ICC objected to his ICL status. But now that Razzaq has given proof to PCB that he has severed all ties with the rebel league, I don’t think that ICC should have any objection. Keepng in view that Sohail Tanvir is also carrying a back strain injury ICC might approve the substitution .

If the request is approved it might help Pakistan team a lot which is struggling to find the right combination.

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Jun10

Will ICC approve Sehwag’s replacement

by wasim on June 10th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Posted In: Cricket, Cricket India

Indian team management has applied with ICC to replace injured Sehwag with Dinesh Karthik but to do so hey will have to convince ICC that Sehwag sustained that injury in England and was not carrying this injury when he arrived in England.

The recent statement issued by Sehwag is not going to help their cause, as according to Sehwag ” The injury occurred during the IPL semi-final (against the Deccan Chargers). I hurt myself while diving to bring off a stop,” Sehwag was quoted as saying by the Kolkata Telegraph. “I’ll be consulting a specialist in London, where I’ll be heading to now. There’s nothing that I can do.”

Since arriving into England Sehwag has only taken part in one practice session and has not taken part in any match so far, according to the ICC rules a player can only be replaced if he gets injured during the tour.

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