Cricket-Pakistan Younis has ban overturned by appeals judge

Former Pakistan captain Younus Khan is free to return to international cricket after an imprecise ban he conventional for poor discipline in the side trip to Australia was upturned by an appeals moderator on Saturday.

Retired Judge Irfan Qadir, who was chosen by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to stay the appeal body six players either banned or fined in March, said there was no reason to prohibit the batsman.

"The PCB did an open-controlled, while a ban against Younus. He did not get a chance to defend them," Qadir told the media after the hearing in Lahore. (Editing by John O'Brien, the query on this story email sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)