Pakistan included three rebel Indian league players in its preliminary 30-man squad announced Monday for the World Twenty20 championships to be held in England in June. Chief selector Abdul Qadir said all-rounders Abdul Razzaq and Rana Navedul Hasan, and opener Imran Nazir had been included but their participation in the tournament would depend on International Cricket Council (ICC) clearance. “We have Razzaq, Hasan and Nazir in the preliminary squad but their inclusion in the final team will depend on clearance from the ICC,” Qadir said. The three were among Pakistani players who featured in the Indian Cricket League (ICL) - bankrolled by India's largest media group and not recognized by the Board of Control for Cricket in India or the ICC. As a result, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) barred the rebel players from playing in domestic and international cricket. The high court in Pakistan's southern province of Sindh, however, suspended the ban last February, allowing the players to take part in domestic matches. The PCB said last week that if ICL players broke ties with the ICL they would consider their inclusion in the national team. For this to happen, however, the PCB needs clearance from the ICC. The ICC is due to discuss the ICL at their meeting in Dubai on April 16. Pakistan finished runners-up to India in the inaugural Twenty20 World Cup held in South Africa in 2007. Qadir said leg-spinner Danish Kaneria was included among the probables at the request of captain Younus Khan. Among the other probables is fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar. Squad: Younus Khan (captain), Salman Butt, Nasir Jamshed, Khalid Latif, Shahzeb Hasan, Umar Amin, Ahmed Shahzad, Misbahul Haq, Faisal Iqbal, Fawad Alam, Shoaib Malik, Shahid Afridi, Sohail Tanvir, Yasir Arafat, Kamran Younus, Shoaib Akhtar, Umar Gul, Rao Iftikhar, Aizaz Cheema, Mohammad Aamir, Wahab Riaz, Imran Ali, Abdur Rehman, Danish Kaneria, Yasir Shah, Kamran Akmal, Sarfraz Ahmed, while Abdul Razzaq, Rana Navedul Hasan and Imran Nazir were named subject to ICC clearance. Fast bowler Akhtar, meanwhile, has recovered fully from a knee injury to win a place in Pakistan's 15-man squad for this month's series against Australia announced in Karachi on Monday. The 33-year-old paceman was ruled out of last month's Test series against Sri Lanka - which was abandoned after a deadly attack on the Sri Lanka team in Lahore - because of the knee injury, which healed without surgery. Pakistan is due to play five one-day and a Twenty20 match against the world champions in Dubai and Abu Dhabi from April 22-May 7. Squad: Younus Khan (captain), Salman Butt, Nasir Jamshed, Ahmed Shahzad, Shoaib Malik, Misbahul Haq, Shahid Afridi, Kamran Akmal, Fawad Alam, Shoaib Akhtar, Sohail Tanvir, Umar Gul, Rao Iftikhar, Yasir Arafat, Saeed Ajmal.
