Faisalabad Wolves,
Pakistan's domestic Twenty20 champions, will travel to India to take part in
the Champions League T20 after the Indian Embassy in Pakistan granted the
players their visas following days of uncertainty.
The
Faisalabad players had dispersed on Thursday evening from their training camp
and went home assuming they would need time to pack if the visas were issued.
The PCB had also told that the visas had neither been issued nor denied.
On Friday, the PCB asked the players to
report at the National Cricket Academy in Lahore because the visas had been
obtained, a Faisalabad player told.
The
players are scheduled to depart in two batches; those in Lahore are due to
leave on Saturday while three players in the Pakistan national team -
Misbah-ul-Haq, Saeed Ajmal and Ehsan Adil - are due to fly from Zimbabwe on the
completion of the current series. The last day of the ongoing second Test in
Harare is on Saturday.
Faisalabad
will be only the second Pakistan team to take part in the Champions League and
the first in India - Sialkot Stallions competed in the 2012 tournament in South
Africa. They play their first match on September 17 in Mohali against Otago
Volts.
A team
from Pakistan had been invited for the first edition in 2008 but that
tournament was postponed because of the terror attacks in Mumbai and no further
invitation was issued to Pakistan until 2012.
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