The Pakistan Cricket Board chairman is once again experiencing angst after the Champions League Twenty20 organizers did not draw up Sialkot Stallions in their plans.
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The PCB Chairman, Ejaz Butt, was angry that once again the CLT20 event will not see a Pakistan team participate. He felt that the Sialkot Stallions deserved a place amongst the ten teams participating in the 2010 edition, but felt that it was perhaps for the same reasons that the Pakistan cricketers were ignored at the IPL 3 auctions that influenced the invite.
Butt also insisted that the PCB had never put it in concrete that Pakistan would never participate in the CL T20 and that they should have been invited, especially since it was being staged in South Africa, not India.
He is aware of Shahid Afridi playing for the South Australian Redbacks and stated that the PCB would not stop Afridi from playing if the Australian Twenty20 team wanted from for the tournament. It will be interesting if the Champions League Twenty20 organizers find a way to stop the Pakistan cricketer from playing, like they did with players such as Justin Kemp and Azhar Mehmood playing for Kent while associated with the ICL, thereby, leading to Kent not being invited to participate in the original scheme of things in 2008 before 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks happened.
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