IS­LAM­ABAD, Pak­istan– Pak­istan Su­per League (PSL) out­fit Is­lam­abad Unit­ed has end­ed the con­tract of West In­dies fast bowler Shamar Joseph for the up­com­ing sea­son.

Ac­cord­ing to a re­port by ES­P­N­cricin­fo, both par­ties agreed by mu­tu­al con­sent to part ways.

Is­lam­abad Unit­ed bought Joseph for his base price, PKR 11 mil­lion, (US$39, 371) at the PSL auc­tion last Fri­day, with no oth­er par­ty bid­ding for him.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports nei­ther the play­er nor the fran­chise in­tends to make a pub­lic state­ment on the mat­ter, and the de­ci­sion is set to be ap­proved by the PSL’s tech­ni­cal com­mit­tee.

Joseph has been re­placed by Zim­bab­wean seam­er Bless­ing Muzara­bani, who has played in the PSL in the past, and was part of the team that won the ti­tle in 2021.

Once con­firmed, Muzara­bani will join the on­ly oth­er Zim­bab­wean at the PSL, Sikan­dar Raza, who hit the win­ning runs in the fi­nal for La­hore Qa­lan­dars last year.

Unit­ed, who have won three PSL ti­tles, a joint record, al­so brought in Mo­ham­mad Has­nain, Salman Ir­shad, Mo­ham­mad Wasim Jnr, Mir Hamza and Richard Glee­son as spe­cial­ist quicks.

The PSL be­gins on March 26, and will fea­ture two new teams, Sialkot Stal­lionz and Hy­der­abad Hous­ton Kings­men. There will be a third fresh team with Mul­tan Sul­tans bought by a new own­er, who changed the fran­chise lo­ca­tion to Rawalpin­di. The fi­nal will take place on May 3.

CMC