{"id":9643,"date":"2008-11-05T16:20:15","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T16:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/11\/05\/pcb-ban-yousuf-after-icl-allegiance\/"},"modified":"2008-11-05T16:20:15","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T16:20:15","slug":"pcb-ban-yousuf-after-icl-allegiance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/05\/pcb-ban-yousuf-after-icl-allegiance\/","title":{"rendered":"PCB ban Yousuf after ICL allegiance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Pakistan star returns to ICL for second season<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"280\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"180\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/MohammadYousuf_180x232(1).jpg\"\/>THE PAKISTAN Cricket Board have banned batsman Mohammad Yousuf after he re-joined the rebel Indian Cricket League.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The PCB said they were left with no alternative but to ban Yousuf after he decided to return to India for the start of the second season.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Yousuf\u2019s move ended months of uncertainty over whether he would return to the ICL. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He was convinced into turning his back on the league by the PCB with the promise of a lucrative contract with the Indian Premier League. The ICL had challenged the decision and the matter went to court. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>But Yousuf announced his shock decision to return to the ICL at a press conference in New Delhi, <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;I have decided to sign for ICL,&#8221; Yousuf &#8211; who will play for Lahore Badshahs &#8211; said in New Delhi. &#8220;There was a misunderstanding with the ICL. I was misguided and confused and not able to take a decision earlier.&#8221; <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He added he was still determined to play for Pakistan despite the PCB\u2019s stance on banning ICL players. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;See, I want to continue playing for Pakistan and the ICL authorities also have no problem with that,&#8221; he added. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Yousuf had been included in a 15-man squad for Pakistan\u2019s forthcoming ODI series against the West Indies. He is likely to be replaced.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;Yousuf will remain banned from playing any type of cricket in Pakistan as he has joined the unrecognised Indian Cricket League,&#8221; Zakir Khan, PCB&#8217;s director of operations, told Cricinfo. &#8220;His central contract has also been cancelled.&#8221; <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan star returns to ICL for second season THE PAKISTAN Cricket Board have banned batsman Mohammad Yousuf after he re-joined the rebel Indian Cricket League. &#13; The PCB said they were left with no alternative but to ban Yousuf after he decided to return to India for the start of the second season. &#13; Yousuf\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}