PCB unlikely to allow Babar, Rizwan, Afridi to play in Canadian GT20 league

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is unlikely to allow senior players Babar Azam, Muhammad Rizwan and Shaheen Shah Afridi to play in the upcoming Global T20 Canadian League, citing a busy international calendar.

The PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi held discussions with coaches Jason Gilliespie and Gary Kirsten, who were also not in favour of allowing these players to participate in the GT20, informed a reliable source in the board.

That these three cricketers play in all formats of the sport too influenced the board's decision, said the source.

The board has allowed NOCs to some of those players who are not all format players like Shadab Khan to play in some leagues.

But since Babar, Shaheen and Rizwan play in all formats the case is different for them, the source said.

The source attributed PCB's call to deny an NOC for pacer Naseem Shah to play in the Hundred in England too to the same reason.

However, he conceded that the board is expecting resentment from the players and their agents as