Misbah-ul-Haq, the Pakistan captain, will replace Australia's Luke Pomersbach
in the St Lucia Zouks side for the inaugural Caribbean Premier League
season. Pomersbach has been forced to pull out of the tournament, which
begins next week, on compassionate leave. Misbah will enter the
competition fresh from a Man-of-the-Series performance in the one-day series against West Indies, which ended on Wednesday.
"Although it is unfortunate that Luke Pomersbach will not be joining us,
we have a high-quality replacement in Misbah-ul-Haq," Matthew Maynard,
the Zouks assistant coach, said. "He brings with him a vast amount of
experience of international cricket, something that will only be of
benefit to our younger players, and his latest Twenty20 performance
speaks for itself. On top of that he has been in excellent form during
the recent ODI series against West Indies so he is completely
acclimatised and match-ready and that is an added plus for us and for
him."
Misbah, who led Faisalabad Wolves to victory in Pakistan's Super Eight
T-20 Cup in March, will join Darren Sammy and Tino Best, as well as
overseas players Herschelle Gibbs, Albie Morkel and Tamim Iqbal at the
Zouks. He was the highest run-getter in the recently concluded series
against West Indies, with 260 runs in five ODIs, including four fifties.
The Caribbean Premier League starts on July 30 in Barbados and concludes on August 24 in Trinidad.
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