http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 Cricket Board restricts five players from travelling abroad
The Pakistan Cricket Board has restricted five main players from travelling to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Razzaq-c84421, Umar Gul
and batsman Younis Khan.
The players were scheduled to fly to Malaysia for the shooting of the commercial this week, but now it seems impossible because the Pakistan Cricket Board is starting a training camp for the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 tour from tomorrow in Lahore
and the Board wants all the players to take part in the camp.
A source quoted, “But the board refused them permission pointing out that they couldn't afford to miss any part of the training camp in Lahore because of the importance of the New Zealand tour."
The players had given the dates of their shooting before the dates for the training camp were finalized and at that time, the players had no idea that there could be any sort of a clash between the dates.
A source said, “Once the dates were announced by the board the players also realised it would not be possible to go for the shoot since the team first plays T20 matches in New Zealand after Afridi, Razzaq and Shoaib Akhtar could
fly off to Malaysia,"
The Pakistan Cricket Board is taking the New Zealand tour very seriously and does not want its players to miss any practice sessions. The basic idea is to make it clear to the players that this tour is more important than anything
else is right now. This is Pakistan’s longest and toughest tournament before the 2011 World Cup and the players who do well in this series will have better prospects of making it to the final squad for the 2011 world clash.
The Pakistan Cricket Board has been very cautious after the spot-fixing debacle and has applied strict rules and regulations for its players to follow. The new code of conduct states that the players cannot hire agents and cannot
go for commercials or endorsements without first getting a clearance from the country’s cricket governing body.
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