Mohammad Hafeez has withdrawn himself from BPL 2017:
Mohammad
Hafeez has decided not to visit Bangladesh after being suspended for illegal
bowling action. Hafeez said that he wants to work on his bowling instead of
joining his BPL team Comilla Victorians for the remaining matches of the
tournament.
Mohammad Hafeez has withdrawn himself from BPL 2017 due to illegal bowling action
“I will
stay here and work on my bowling action,” he said.
Hafeez
was selected in the team as an all-rounder but ICC has made their decision that
he would not bowl until his action is cleared.
37
year old all-rounder has requested PCB to assign him a bowling coach who will
help him in shaping his bowling action so that he can play as a genuine
all-rounder once again.
ICC
said that Hafeez has been banned from bowling in international & domestic
cricket & he can apply for reassessment. In domestic cricket, however, he
will have a conditional eligibility to bowl under auspices of PCB.
Hafeez
took the matter to twitter & his goal is to play as an all-rounder once
again & aimed to work hard on his bowling action.
The
senior player wrote on twitter, “Saddened to know the result of my bowling
action from ICC, (but) it would never pull me down, (I) will never give up”
“(I have) worked so hard to remodeled it &
will work again twice harder to get better to serve my beloved country Pakistan
& achieve more,”.
Hafeez
has played 50 Tests, 195 ODIs & 81 T20s for Pakistan.
According
to ICC assessment, most of his balls had exceeded the 15 degree level of
tolerance.
Pakistan
all-rounder underwent an assessment in England after his bowling action was
found suspicious during Pakistan v Sri Lanka third ODI.
However
he has a chance to apply for re-assessment after changing his bowling action.
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