Thursday, 14 January 2016

PCB reignites MCL dispute with retirement condition

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has forced an arrangement on its cricketers to formally resign before procuring a No Objection Certificate (NOC) for the up and coming Masters Champions League. The move has started more erosion between the PCB and the MCL as prior they had a long-standing question on securing the venues in the UAE for their particular T20 alliances. 

No less than twelve Pakistani cricketers including Mohammad Yousuf, Abdul Razzaq, Saleem Elahi and Yasir Hameed are among the ones chose for the MCL with every one of them effectively tossed from universal cricket. The PCB, in any case, encouraged them to sign a letter to report retirement from universal cricket, which would be irreversible later on. 

Prior, when the thought of the MCL had developed, its dates conflicted with the PCB's arrangements to have the Pakistan Super League in the UAE. In any case, following the MCL coordinators had effectively reserved the three UAE venues before the PCB, it prompted a question between the Pakistani board and the Emirates Cricket Board, which is the sole controller of cricket in the UAE. 

The PCB was compelled to search for an option venue and considered Qatar yet the venue was most likely not going to satisfy the necessities of facilitating a T20 association including universal cricketers from around the globe. Zafar Shah, the administrator of the MCL, and Najam Sethi, the head of PSL, then held talks and the PCB pushed the MCL coordinators to reschedule their class and permit the PCB to use the accessible window in February. Be that as it may, the discussions fell through and the PCB reported Qatar as the venue. 

Months after that, the PCB picked the UAE as the venue once more, in the wake of finding a center ground with the MCL. 

The two associations will be run simultaneously with the PSL to hold matches in Sharjah, the MCL in Abu Dhabi, and Dubai to be shared by the two classes. Be that as it may, the MCL site as of now states Sharjah and Dubai as the venues, and not Abu Dhabi. The question seemed to have finished then however the PCB has now requested that its cricketers satisfy the retirement standard on the off chance that they need to play the MCL. 

The MCL is for resigned players yet the PCB has said any Pakistani player dynamic in household cricket who has joined with the class will be viewed as resigned, paying little heed to his former declaration in regards to retirement from universal cricket. There is a considerable rundown of players from different parts of the world who may have not declared their retirement but rather marked with the MCL, for example, South Africa's Richard Levi and West Indies' Fidel Edwards. In any case, PCB said they have their own particular approach which depends on their immediate rivalry with the secretly run MCL. 

"It is cleared up that PCB will issue NOCs just to those cricketers who have reported and affirmed their permanent renunciation and retirement from worldwide cricket in the interest of Pakistan, in composing to PCB," the board said in an official statement. "Such cricketers will, then again, stay qualified to play in household cricket according to runs the show. 

While Mohammad Yousuf declined to acknowledge this one of a kind strategy, some different players have apparently acknowledged it, including Humayun Farhat, who last played for Pakistan in 2001, Yasir Hameed (last played in 2010), Rana Naved-ul-Hasan (2010) and Mohammad Khalil (2005). 

"I wouldn't fret doing it however I have no clue what is the reason for it," said Hameed. "It's not care for we are getting some retirement advantage from it or any provident supports so that doesn't bode well however what would we be able to do. I am not chose in PSL, never been considered for national group subsequent to 2010, then for us it's similar to we are resigned as of now so I have no issue of marking it." 

Players in conflict for MCL: Abdul Razzaq, Saleem Elahi, Mohammad Yousuf, Saqlain Mushtaq, Naved-ul-Hasan, Taufeeq Umar, Yasir Hameed, Mushtaq Ahmed, Azhar Mehmood, Hasan Raza, Humayun Farhat, Mohammad Khalil.

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