Pakistan players blocked from playing in Bangladesh league
Nine Pakistani players have been offered contracts by different clubs in the Dhaka Premier League that begins on December 26 but the PCB has stopped test players, Younis Khan, Shoaib Malik, Imran Farhat, Mohammad Hafeez and Abdul Rehman from signing.
"The PCB feels that at this time when the national team is due to play a very important test series against England it would not be appropriate to allow our top players to play in any foreign...league," PCB media manager Nadeem Sarwar told Reuters.
"No player at this stage has been given permission to sign any contract."
Other players offered contracts include out of favour test players, Kamran Akmal and Wahab Riaz and Umar Akmal and Sohail Tanvir who recently played in the one-day series against Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
The Pakistani team is currently touring Bangladesh and will return home next week before leaving for Dubai on January 9. The first of three tests against England start on January 17 with the squad scheduled to be named next week.
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PCB wants to thrive Pakistani cricket league not anyother country. Its good that players are not allowed.
good decision, and please ET don't play for cheap publicity. I know Pakistanis are overly emotional and many would have just read the headline and started criticizing PCB, but please don't use that "emotionality" to get people to just click on the link!
The headline should read 'PCB blocks players playing in or joining Bangladesh league'.
@Akhtar: Guess they want people to pay attention...cheap journalism I say if it is intentional!
Misleading headline!