After withdrawing from the Pakistan Super League’s seventh edition for feeling “humiliated” over being added to the Silver category, veteran cricketer Kam-ran Akmal has retracted his decision and has de-cided to play for Peshawar Zalmi.
The development came after Akmal held discus-sions with Zalmi’s coach and director Mohammad Akram, the franchise’s management said in a state-ment.
Akram said that the veteran cricketer has always been their key player and will be part of Zalmi in the seventh edition of PSL.
“Peshawar Zalmi is my family,” Akmal said, ac-cording to the statement.
The cricketer had ex-pressed unhappiness at being picked by the PSL franchise in the Silver category of the upcoming season and as a mark of protest had announced he does not wish to be part of the tournament this time.
In a conversation on his YouTube channel “Catch and bat with Kamran Akmal”, the cricketer had said: “Perhaps the team has no use for me any-more and the PSL would do better to give a chance to younger players rather than pick me in the Silver category”.
The batter was also unhappy with PCB Chair-man Ramiz Raja who had criticised Akmal’s deci-sion.—Agencies
