By BIPIN DANI SPORTS
Mumbai, Jan. 31 : Pakistan cricket team will have a new captain for the for the tour's only Twenty20 match scheduled to be played on Friday at Melbourne, it is learnt here.
According to the team management sources in Perth, the stand-in skipper Shahid Afridi (in the absence of regular captain Mohd. Yousuf) has accepted his guilt of ball-tampering and is likely to be banned for two Twenty20 matches.
If this happens, he will not be able to lead the side against Australia on current tour and also be banned for the Twenty20 game against England in Dubai.
Afridi faced the ball tampering charge today after appearing to bite the ball at the start of the 46th over. He attended the match-referee (Ranjan Madugalle) hearing after the match and ICC verdict is awaited. He explained his actions, intimating he was trying to clean the seam, which is illegal. The camera caught him tampering with the ball.
Mohd. Yousuf and Younis Khan are not schduled to take part in the Twenty20 match and are heading for their home to-day, the source added.
Mumbai, Jan. 31 : Pakistan cricket team will have a new captain for the for the tour's only Twenty20 match scheduled to be played on Friday at Melbourne, it is learnt here.
According to the team management sources in Perth, the stand-in skipper Shahid Afridi (in the absence of regular captain Mohd. Yousuf) has accepted his guilt of ball-tampering and is likely to be banned for two Twenty20 matches.
If this happens, he will not be able to lead the side against Australia on current tour and also be banned for the Twenty20 game against England in Dubai.
Afridi faced the ball tampering charge today after appearing to bite the ball at the start of the 46th over. He attended the match-referee (Ranjan Madugalle) hearing after the match and ICC verdict is awaited. He explained his actions, intimating he was trying to clean the seam, which is illegal. The camera caught him tampering with the ball.
Mohd. Yousuf and Younis Khan are not schduled to take part in the Twenty20 match and are heading for their home to-day, the source added.
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