BPL to be held without Pakistan cricketers

BPL to be held without Pakistan cricketers

No Pakistan cricketers will be seen in action during the second version of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), as the Pakistan Cricket Board has refused to issues No Objection Certificates to them.

The event is scheduled to kick off in a couple of days and the teams will have to find 27 replacements now. This will definitely be a difficult task for the Bangladesh Cricket Board, as they have got very little time to make arrangements. However, the organisers
are optimistic that things will continue as normal and there will be no changes in the scheduled matches.

“A little while ago, we received a phone call from their CEO Subhan Ahmed saying that if we don’t send the Bangladesh team on tour to Pakistan, they won’t give NOCs to their players to participate in the BPL,” the BCB’s media committee chairman Jalal Yunus
said. “We will hold the tournament without their participation and it will start as per schedule, the opening ceremony on January 17 and the matches beginning on January 18.”

The BCB president Nazmul Hassan claimed that this was not the right call by the PCB and they did this on purpose in order to jeopardise the BPL.

Commenting on Bangladesh’s tour to Pakistan, he said, “We are no longer in a hurry. We were under tremendous pressure, so now we have some breathing space. Just before the start of a tournament, they have taken such a tough stance without any prior notice
knowing that it would throw the organisation into jeopardy. We will now decide on the sort of response regarding Bangladesh’s tour to Pakistan.”

He added that the board will send a security team to Pakistan in order to review the situation and then decide what to do.

Although the BCB would be feeling hard done by this decision, but they have been given a taste of their own medicine by the PCB.

Bangladesh team was supposed to tour their neighbouring country after the first version of BPL, but the board took a u-turn after the success of their league. They were planning a similar sort of thing this time around by delaying the decision until the
completion of their Twenty20 league.

However, the cricket authorities in Pakistan were aware of their dirty tactics and decided not to send their players in the league.

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Posted by Waqar Masood on Jan 16 2013. Filed under Pakistan, Sports. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry