Pakistan's captain, coach and chief selector were forced to backtrack on their choices for replacing injured players in the squad for the World Twenty20 in the Caribbean. A day after the trio said Mohammad Sami and Mohammad Irfan had been approved as replacements for Umar Gul and Yasir Arafat - without the approval of the PCB chairman Ijaz Butt - the board announced that Sami and Abdur Rehman, the left-arm spinner, will now be the replacements instead.
"After Gul and Arafat's injury we wanted another fast bowler, but from the list of 30 probables, we didn't have any others," Mohsin told Cricinfo. "The problem with Irfan's selection was that he wasn't in the 30 and that is where the problem was. Rehman's name has been approved by the chairman." The ICC clarified, however, that a player can be picked from outside the probables list.