Surely this is a JOKE(re: Cricket Australia)

KARACHI: Pakistan are unlikely to recall any of their Indian Cricket League (ICL) rebels in the near future as such a step would add to their headaches, it was learnt on Tuesday.

Though the countryâ€s sports authorities believe that Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) should think about welcoming back top players like Mohammad Yousuf in the national team to lift its below-par showing, it appears highly unlikely that the Board will consider taking such a move any time soon.

Mondayâ€s Sindh High Court (SHC) decision to suspend the ban imposed by PCB on the countryâ€s ICL players has raised hopes that the verdict will pave the way for the international return of cricketers like Yousuf, Pakistanâ€s premier batsman.

Yousuf was banned from all forms of cricket by the PCB last November after he defected to the cash-rich ICL — a twenty20 league that is not sanctioned by the International Cricket Council (ICC).

Nineteen other Pakistani players were also banned by the PCB for their association with ICL. They were also barred from playing domestic cricket.

However, the SHC has suspended the ban on domestic cricket.

Federal sports minister Aftab Shah Jilani has said that he now hopes that the PCB will think about recalling some of the ICL players in the national team.

“Our teamâ€s performance has really gone down,” he said. “Last month we lost to Sri Lanka by a very big margin. Personally I believe that the team can be strengthened if our players who went to the ICL are reconsidered but thatís a decision that rests with the PCB,” he told ‘The News†in an interview.

The decision to bring back players like Yousuf, however tempting it might appear, will be a tough one for PCB.

Take of instance the possibility of Yousuf making a comeback in Pakistanâ€s next international assignment — the one-day series against Australia in April.

There is a big possibility that the series will not take place at all if Yousuf or any other ICL player is included in the Pakistan squad.

Reports emerging from Australia have suggested that Ricky Pontingâ€s men will decide against playing with Pakistan if any ICL cricketer is a part of the home team.

Cricket Australia — the cricketâ€s governing body in Australia — does not support the ICL and could boycott the one-day series should players from the blacklisted ICL be chosen for Pakistan duty.

At last weekâ€s ICC meeting in Perth, the Indian cricket board (BCCI) sought the demise of the ICL and managed to convince all member nations of the game to boycott players who participate in the twenty20 league.

Indiaâ€s stance has received solid backing from CA which fears that a rival tournament could be established when it organises its own version of the IPL, the Southern Premier League.

All unofficial tournaments, including the ICL, were formally banned at the ICC board meeting in Perth though it was decided that BCCI officials will meeting their ICL counterparts later this month in a bid to resolve the issue

No, it's a Joke re: the BCCI. Not.

It means CA is bending over so the BCCI can stuff as much $$$$ and what ever else they want up their back passage ....

embee wrote:It means CA is bending over so the BCCI can stuff as much $$$$ and what ever else they want up their back passage ....

Surely they have so much stuff up there that they ought to be crapping out of their mouth already?

I knew money talked and in some cases i knew talked like an unstoppable and annoying girlfriend

but didn't know that it shouted as well......like an annoying girlfriend

HH_pink wrote:

embee wrote:It means CA is bending over so the BCCI can stuff as much $$$$ and what ever else they want up their back passage ....

Surely they have so much stuff up there that they ought to be crapping out of their mouth already?

Would explain what happens when Sutherland or Ponting speak ....

Why would anyone think ithis could be a joke? CA is, and has been for years, a joke.

"Indiaâ€s "


I preferred their old name. It was easier to type.

When will someone take a stand against the BCCI?

Cricket Australia proves once again that they are weak.

But does it really come as a suprise?

OP Tipping wrote:"Indiaâ€s "


I preferred their old name. It was easier to type.

Problem is, every time you use the word ****** on this board, some automatic ****** picks the ****** up and puts stars in place of ******.

So calling them the Indian ****** was never going to work, long term.

oi - those 6 asterisks are all mine...banindia is usually spelled as ########

get ****** horrie

CA is the BCCI's bitch, why the surprise?

Zat wrote:get ****** horrie

that's better

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