After months legal wrangle with the Indian Cricket League, senior Pakistan
batsman Mohammad Yousuf may finally end up joining the rebel Twenty20
series, thus ending his international career.
Sources close to the batsman have confirmed to PTI that Yousuf has conveyed to
the ICL organisers that he was willing to consider joining them if they drop compensation
claims and other charges against him.
The ICL took legal recourse after Yousuf -- a veteran of 79 tests and 269 one-day
internationals -- first joined them in 2007 and then backed out of the contract
under pressure from the PCB who assured him of a more lucrative deal
with the official Indian Premier League.
But the ICL obtained a stay order, restraining Yousuf from playing in any other
rival twenty20 league including the IPL.
Yousuf is set to file his reply to the ICL charges in the Mumbai high
court tomorrow where he has appealed against the stay order.
Tafazzul Rizvi, the PCB legal counsel, who is supporting Yousuf in his
legal battle said the reply would be submitted by an Indian lawyer, hired to
push the appeal in the Mumbai high court.
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