PCB withholds NOC of Babar, Shaheen, Rizwan for Global T20 Canada

| 2025-01-16 00:01:03

Cricket board has contacted ICC regarding affiliation of league

Shaheen Afridi, Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan during T20 World Cup 2022. - AFP

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) withheld a no-objection certificate (NOC) of skipper Babar Azam, Shaheen Afridi and Mohammad Rizwan for Canada's Global T20, Geo News reported citing sources.

As per details, the cricketers have requested NOC for the league while PCB has contacted the International Cricket Council (ICC) regarding the affiliation of the Global T20.

The decision on NOC will be made after ICC clarification.

It must be noted that seven Pakistan stars were picked by teams for GT20. This includes Babar, Rizwan, Shaheen, Asif Ali, Mohammad Amir, Iftikhar Ahmed and Mohammad Nawaz.

Babar, Asif, Amir and Rizwan are going to play for the Vancouver Knights. Shaheen and Nawaz are going to represent Toronto Nationals and Iftikhar will be a part of Bangla Tigers Mississauga.

Earlier on Tuesday, PCB issued a NOC to 12 players to participate in different leagues across the world.

Some of the players from the list are part of Pakistan’s central contract while the others have not played for the Green Shirts in a long time.

It is worth mentioning that the PCB has a policy where centrally contracted players cannot play more than two leagues. Due to that reason, wicketkeeper batter Azam Khan withdrew from LPL as he could not get NOC from the board.

Azam was part of LPL side B-Love Kandy who will begin their campaign against Colombo Strikers on Tuesday.

Saim Ayub and Azam are also part of Guyana Warriors for the upcoming CPL 2024 but both are yet to obtain NOC from the PCB.