Islamabad, Aug 15 : The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has asked the Sialkot Stallions to select the same players who had represented the team in the national Twenty20 and super eights championships last season, during their campaign in the Champions League qualifying tournament in South Africa.
"Basically, the squads can''t include any guest player, or change players for the Champions League. They have to go in with the same set of players that won them the domestic titles," the Daily Times quoted a PCB source, as saying.
Sialkot Stallions will have to appear in the qualifying tournament to qualify for the main round of the Champions League also in South Africa. It will be the first time that a Pakistani outfit will be appearing in the Champions League, which will be held in October.
Sialkot Stallions includes international players such as Shoaib Malik, Rana Naved, Imran Nazir, Shakeel Ansar, Abdul Rehman, Reza Hasan and Qaiser Abbas, who played a Test against England in 2000.
"But we are not worried because we have some exciting youngsters like Reza Hasan, Haris Sohail, Ali Khan and Bilawal Bhatti tempered with the experienced players," an official of the Sialkot cricket body said.
Four of the Sialkot squad are presently members of either the Pakistan one-day or T20 squads including Malik, Nazir, Reza and Rehman.
© ANI
