Islamabad: Finally All-rounder Shahid Afridi will unite Hampshire next week after talks with the PCB.
The PCB banned Shahid Afridi, 33, from playing in the FL T20 after hanging up his central aggrement for scornful remarks about the board.
But on tuesday after a meeting, the PCB allowed the player No Objection Certificate. According to Afridi’s lawyer, as BBC quoted him,
Shahid will join Hampshire next week to play T20 tournament, the meeting between Shahid and Ijaz Butt [PCB chairman] went very well and both parties have come to an amicable agreemen.”. He further added that,
“I spoke to Giles White [Hampshire manager] this morning and they’re very pleased that it’s all sorted out, Shahid is very excited to finally be linking up with Hampshire and get back to doing what he loves, which is playing cricket.”
Afridi, who had seen his registration with Hampshire dissimed by the England and Wales Cricket Board because of the oar, was scheduled to make his Hampshire opening in their FL T20 opener against Somerset llast month.
Afridi was also poised to play Twenty20 cricket for Hampshire last summer but selected to lead Pakistan in the Test series against Australia instead.
Recently, Shahid Afridi met PCB Chairman Ijaz Butt in Islamabad on Tuesday with the aim of resolve the ongoing quarrel between the two is on the cards. According ti sources that a meeting had taken place on the urgency of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, to whom Afridi had met in London and sought his help in resolving the matter, on Bilawal’s directives the issue had finally been settled, the sources have confirmed.
The PCB banned Shahid Afridi, 33, from playing in the FL T20 after hanging up his central aggrement for scornful remarks about the board.
But on tuesday after a meeting, the PCB allowed the player No Objection Certificate. According to Afridi’s lawyer, as BBC quoted him,
Shahid will join Hampshire next week to play T20 tournament, the meeting between Shahid and Ijaz Butt [PCB chairman] went very well and both parties have come to an amicable agreemen.”. He further added that,
“I spoke to Giles White [Hampshire manager] this morning and they’re very pleased that it’s all sorted out, Shahid is very excited to finally be linking up with Hampshire and get back to doing what he loves, which is playing cricket.”
Afridi, who had seen his registration with Hampshire dissimed by the England and Wales Cricket Board because of the oar, was scheduled to make his Hampshire opening in their FL T20 opener against Somerset llast month.
Afridi was also poised to play Twenty20 cricket for Hampshire last summer but selected to lead Pakistan in the Test series against Australia instead.
Recently, Shahid Afridi met PCB Chairman Ijaz Butt in Islamabad on Tuesday with the aim of resolve the ongoing quarrel between the two is on the cards. According ti sources that a meeting had taken place on the urgency of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, to whom Afridi had met in London and sought his help in resolving the matter, on Bilawal’s directives the issue had finally been settled, the sources have confirmed.
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