Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers have re­ceived a blow fol­low­ing their record vic­to­ry over the Ja­maica Tallawahs on Fri­day night, as 19-year-old fast bowler Muham­mad Has­nain has been re­called to Pak­istan by the Pak­istan Crick­et Board (PCB).

Checks with TKR of­fi­cials yes­ter­day re­vealed that the PCB had orig­i­nal­ly giv­en Has­nain a No-Ob­jec­tion Cer­tifi­cate (NOC) to play for the en­tire CPL but have now made an about-turn and de­cid­ed to re­voke the NOC.

Every play­er who takes part in fran­chise T20 leagues re­quire NOCs from their re­spec­tive crick­et boards in line with the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) pol­i­cy.

Has­nain has been good open­ing the bowl­ing for the TKR so far this sea­son and has tak­en six wick­ets in the four match­es to date. He grabbed two wick­ets, in­clud­ing that of the dan­ger­ous Ja­maica Tallawahs bats­men Chris Gayle, in the team’s fourth suc­ces­sive win at Sabi­na Park on Fri­day night.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that the PCB is con­sid­er­ing Has­nain for a se­ries against Sri Lan­ka card­ed from Sep­tem­ber 27 to Oc­to­ber 19 in Pak­istan. In or­der to get him in­to ‘red ball’ groove, they have made a de­ci­sion to call him home to take part in the sec­ond round of the do­mes­tic Quaid-e-Azam tro­phy.

The CPL fran­chis­es draft­ed sev­er­al Pak­istani crick­eters for the on­go­ing edi­tion of the league this sea­son. Shadab Khan, who was among the biggest earn­ers from Pak­istan as a draft of the Guyana Ama­zon War­riors, has al­ready left for home. How­ev­er, Khan was told ear­ly on that he would be re­quired to re­turn home while Has­nain’s sit­u­a­tion came as a shock to the TKR set-up.

TKR has al­ready suf­fered a ma­jor blow this sea­son with the loss of reg­u­lar skip­per Dwayne Bra­vo for the en­tire tour­na­ment. Bra­vo re­ceived surgery on an in­jured mid­dle fin­ger of his left hand and was re­placed by Kieron Pol­lard, who has done a good job in win­ning all his match­es.

Bra­vo’s broth­er Dar­ren has al­so been out for the first few games while re­cov­er­ing from a con­cus­sion he re­ceived dur­ing the re­cent Test se­ries against In­dia.