KARACHI: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has granted the trio of Saeed Ajmal, Shahid Afridi and Umar Akmal permission to play a few games at this season's Big Bash League (BBL), on the request of Cricket Australia.
The trio will miss the last round of Pakistan's domestic Twenty20 tournament and will return in time for the conditioning camp in Lahore ahead of the India tour, cricinfo.com website reported on Monday.
The PCB had earlier denied the players permission to play this BBL, to ensure their participation in the local tournament.
Akmal is signed with Sydney Sixers and Ajmal with Adelaide Strikers for the season, while Afridi is set to play for Sydney Thunder, having transferred from Melbourne Renegades.
Players will now leave at the tail end of Pakistan's T20 tournament, which runs from December 2 to 10, and will return home for conditioning camp.
As per the arrangement, the players will leave for the BBL at the end of the group stages of the Pakistan T20 matches; these which conclude on December 7, and the camp for which they must return begins on December 12.
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