No confirmation of players arriving, tournament could be delayed<\/strong>
\nAfter keeping Bangladesh waiting for days Pakistan has finally played its Bangladesh Premier League card on Tuesday confirming that it is unable to send its players\u00a0for the Twenty20 tournament.
\nThe decision puts the future of the tournament in doubt as it left some of the franchisees without even eleven players to form a team.
\nThe BPL governing council was convinced until the afternoon that Pakistanis would come before they surrendered without giving any proper explanation to media.
\nBPL governing council secretary Ismail Haider Mallick told reporters in the afternoon that at least six Pakistani players will arrive on Wednesday and the eight others
\nwill follow them on the next day.
\nNadeem Sarwar, the spokesman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, however, refused to confirm it when contacted and rather requested the media to contact with Mallick for
\nthe details of the development.
\n\u2018You better ask him (Mallick) how they will play,\u2019 Nadeem told New Age over phone.
\n\u2018I am not in a position to speak about if any No Objection Certificate was issued or not,\u2019 he said.
\nThe BPL governing council later in a meeting decided to wait until 10am today before deciding further course of action.
\nIt was assumed that Pakistan Cricket Board would release at least some players who are not under contract with them, but PCB chairman indicated that there is a chance
\nno one would be coming.
\nA desperate franchisee official contacted directly with Zaka Ashraf using his personal relationship with the grudging cricket administrator, but only got a negative
\nreply from him.
\nUnless Bangladesh announces a confirmed date Zaka said they will not release any player. Bangladesh on Monday told Pakistan that they will send a security delegation
\nto see if the national team can tour to their troubled country, but it seems the PCB is not satisfied with this mere promise.
\nPakistan\u2019s position was cleared once some players refused to confirm their arrival timing despite the franchisees sending them air tickets.
\nOne franchisee said it will be difficult for them to field a team at the moment if Pakistanis do not come.
\n\u2018I think it will be damaging for us as we have got seven players and even a Pakistani coach Naveed Anjum,\u2019 said a Khulna Royal Bengals official.
\nKhulna have seven Pakistani players – Shoaib Malik, Umar Akmal, Awaiz Zia, Umar Amin, Ahmed Shehzad, Haris Sohail, Bilawal Bhatti.
\nThe Pakistani players are not the only headache for the BPL governing council as the member secretary admitted that they have failed to make a proper preparation for
\nthe cash-rich tournament.
\n\u2018I admit that we could not complete the preparation yet,\u2019 said BPL secretary Mallick. \u2018It is because most of our time were consumed clearing the payments of the first
\nedition,\u2019 said Mallick.
\nThe mismanagement was evident in picking up a bank for ticket selling which could not be started even on Wednesday. Mallick admitted that at least four banks have
\nbacked out and hoped United Commercial Bank Limited would to the job for them finally.
\n\u2018The Banks are not prepared to sell the tickets due to security reasons as four banks have backed out,\u2019 said Mallick. \u2018We are hopeful UCBL will sell the tickets from
\ntomorrow,\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n

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