LAHORE: Pakistan T20 skipper Mohammad Hafeez has signed for the inaugural Caribbean Premier League (CPL), the West Indies Cricket Board said in a statement on Saturday.
The statement said the 32-year-old all-rounder had joined as an international franchise player for the tournament which will take place between July 29 and August 26 across the Caribbean.
Hafeez, know as professor in the national team, is one of only eight players to have scored more than 1,000 runs in Twenty20 internationals.
He joins Australians Ricky Ponting and Adam Gilchrist and New Zealander Ross Taylor as the early international signings for the new league.
The CPL will feature six country-based franchises including Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, St Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago.
The teams are allowed a maximum of four foreign players each.
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