DUBAI, June 10 (Agencies): With detained pacer Mohammad Asif's fate in limbo, senior Pakistan Cricket Board official Nadeem Akram, rushed here to bail out the detained cricketer, will return home tonight leaving behind a mission unaccomplished.
After yet another day of no action from either the Dubai Attorney General or the Public Prosecutor's office on Asif's fate, Akram told PTI that he would return Pakistan tonight even though he was optimistic about the early release of the cricketer.
"I am returning home tonight, but I am hopeful of an early release (for Asif)," Akram told , adding that an official of the Pakistan embassy in Abu Dhabi will now follow the case.
Akram said there was no word from the Dubai Attorney General and Public Prosecutor's office on whether to trial the Pakistani pacer or deport him even as Asif's lawyers were pursuing the case.
Asif remains detained at the Dubai airport since June 1 for allegedly possessing contraband drugs.
The pacer was on his way home after playing in the Indian Premier League when he was intercepted by the airport officials.
Salary cap to stay: Modi MUMBAI, June 10 (Agencies):Indian Premier League Commissioner Lalit Modi today ruled out lifting the salary cap on the franchisees from the second edition of the Twenty20 extravaganza.
Modi said in a statement that the players are legally bound by their three-year contract with their respective franchisees and they have to abide by that.
"The three-year contractual clause was made public to both the franchisees and players prior to the auction and the player's participation.
"All the parties will abide by the terms and conditions laid down by the governing council and it is only up to the franchisee to trade a player/players as and when the trading window opens next year," Modi said.
Presently, each of the eight franchisees can spend a maximum of USD five million for its squad, and players like Ricky Ponting has already opposed such moved, fearing it would lead to uneven contests.
The release said the players are bound by the contractual agreements signed with franchisees for a period of three years and new guidelines would be out soon before the transfer window opens early next year.
"...The DLF Indian Premier League will issue a fresh set of guidelines on the player transfer protocols for the next season keeping in mind the transfer window," the release said.
"It would however, be the prerogative of the franchisee alone to take a decision to trade a player/players, when the trading window opens in the early part of 2009 just prior to the second season of the DLF Indian Premier League," it added.
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