Yousuf will take part in IPL players’ bidding, says PCB

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"Yousuf will take part in IPL players’ bidding, says PCB

LAHORE: Pakistan batsman Mohammad Yousuf will take part in the Indian Premier League’s (IPL) players’ auction on February 8, a spokesman for the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said here on Monday. The Indian Cricket League (ICL) had filed a petition with an arbitration court saying Yousuf had signed an agreement with them, taken an advance and then backed out of his contract. The arbitration court had ordered a stay on the veteran batsman signing up with the IPL. Yousuf had earlier terminated his contract with the ICL in August after PCB chairman Nasim Asharaf persuaded him to do so. The IPL is the Indian cricket board’s multi-million dollar professional Twenty20 league that has been launched to counter the ICL.

“The arbitration proceedings before arbitrator in Mumbai were fixed for January 24 wherein Yousaf was represented by Taffuzal Rizvi, Advocate, who moved two applications before the arbitrator. 1: That the arbitrator is biased as he has passed an ad-interim ex-parte stay order and a suit is pending in the Lahore High Court against this stay. 2: That since Yousaf has already returned the money paid by the ICL without any objection therefore th"