Shahid Afridi Snubs Global T20 League For Bangladesh Premier League 1

Former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi, on Saturday (August 26), confirmed he would miss the upcoming Global T20 tournament due to his commitments with Bangladesh Premier League outfit Dhaka Dynamites.

Afridi was one of the 90 overseas players who are set to feature in the inaugural T20 Global League draft to be held this weekend in Cape Town. However, with South Africa’s upcoming league and Bangladesh Premier League set to run simultaneously in November-December, Cricket South Africa  (CSA) has stated that players who sign contracts will not be allowed to participate in any other tournament and that the contracts will be binding.

And with the players now in a big dilemma, Afridi has pledged his loyalty with the Dhaka Dynamites. The swashbuckling all-rounder, who recently scored his maiden T20 hundred in NatWest T20 Blast, took to Twitter to confirm his decision.

“Unfortunate that I’ll miss Global T20 due to commitments with Dhaka dynamites in BPL. All the best to everyone in SA ? See you soon,” he tweeted.

Recently, Nizamuddin Chowdhury, the Bangladesh Cricket Board CEO, admitted that the officials will contact CSA to sort out the issue.

“We were aware that such an issue may come up since both tournaments are scheduled around the same time,” he said. “We will get in touch with Cricket South Africa soon. We have asked the BPL franchises for the list of cricketers. If the players say that they don’t know how their names went up in that [T20 Global draft] list, I think that’s a valid ground for the BPL franchises who have already signed them. But we will first contact CSA and then, depending on the response, think about the next course of action.”