The think tank of the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers team is still pon­der­ing whether to bring in a re­place­ment for Pak­istani open­ing fast bowler Muham­mad Has­nain, who has been called back to his home coun­try to play in the do­mes­tic Quaid-e-Azam tro­phy.

Man­ag­er of the team Col­in Bor­de told Guardian Me­dia on Sun­day that no de­ci­sion has been made con­cern­ing a re­place­ment. More than like­ly, there will be no re­place­ment who can come in on time to join the team for their fifth match of the tour­na­ment against the St. Kitts/Nevis Pa­tri­ots at Warn­er Park in St. Kitts on Tues­day.

The PCB orig­i­nal­ly gave Has­nain a No-Ob­jec­tion Cer­tifi­cate (NOC) to play for the en­tire CPL but made an about-turn and has de­cid­ed to re­voke the NOC. Every play­er who takes part in T20 fran­chise leagues re­quires NOCs from their re­spec­tive crick­et boards. This is in line with the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) pol­i­cy.

Has­nain has been good for the TKR open­ing the bowl­ing and has tak­en six wick­ets in the four match­es to date. He grabbed two wick­ets, in­clud­ing that of the dan­ger­ous Chris Gayle in his team's fourth suc­ces­sive win in Kingston on Fri­day night.

It is un­der­stood that the PCB is con­sid­er­ing Has­nain for a se­ries against Sri Lan­ka that is card­ed from Sep­tem­ber 27 to Oc­to­ber 19 in Pak­istan.