The former Pakistan skipper Wasim Akram, and a regular ESPN Star Sports (ESS) commentator, will reportedly not be commentating during the ESS broadcast Champions League Twenty20, beginning in India this week, because he is Pakistani.
Currently he is part of ESPN’s commentary panel for the ongoing Champions Trophy in South Africa.
Sources close to the former Pakistani paceman [...]

The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Monday officially named South Africa as the new hosts of the biennial Champions Trophy this year.
South Africa was recommended last week by cricket’s governing body in the wake of incidents in Pakistan which have effectively put hosting cricket matches in that country off the agenda.
The elite eight-nation event was [...]