Pakistani players will no longer be in action in the upcoming Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) after not receiving the NOC (No Objection Certificate) by Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). The Bangladeshi league is to be played from 18-January to February 19th. The league will now continue without Pakistani players.
Sources suggest that the PCB have not issued the NOC to Pakistani players can be the reaction due to the refusal of Bangladesh Cricket Board to send their team to Pakistan to play a bilateral series. The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) first shown a light of hope for the return of cricket in Pakistan but later pulled their decision back making security issues reason which caused disappointment to Pakistan and the Cricket fans here in Pakistan.
In reply the PCB has not issued NOC to twenty six players who were picked in the auction and not allowed them to play in the BPL. Decision of PCB is being considered very mean by the BCB officials as it is just taken at the very last moment of the starting of the League.
By Umar Bakhtiar