Veteran Australian bowler Peter Siddle has reportedly been banned from playing in this season\u2019s T20 Blast due to his participation in the World Legends Pro League earlier this year.<\/p>\n
The 41-year-old was set to represent the Notts Outlaws in the British T20 competition, which commences next month, while he was expected to be available for the entire tournament.<\/p>\n
However, Nottinghamshire released a statement on Tuesday confirming he would no longer travel to the United Kingdom due to \u201cpersonal circumstances\u201d, with the county now searching for a replacement player.<\/p>\n
Get all the latest cricket news, highlights and analysis delivered straight to your inbox with Fox Sports Sportmail. Sign up now ><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re naturally disappointed that Peter won\u2019t be able to join us this summer, as we were looking forward to having a player of his calibre and experience as part of our T20 squad,\u201d Nottinghamshire Director of Cricket Mick Newell said in a statement.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ll now focus our efforts on securing the services of a replacement for this summer\u2019s competition.\u201d<\/p>\n Peter Siddle of the Melbourne Stars. Photo by Jason McCawley\/Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images<\/p>\n Later on Tuesday, The Daily Mail<\/a> and ESPNcricinfo<\/a> reported that Siddle and former England representative Samit Patel had been blocked from playing the T20 Blast due to their involvement in the recent World Legends Pro League, a competition for retired players in Goa that is not sanctioned by the BCCI.<\/p>\n Under ECB regulations, any cricketers involved in \u2018disapproved\u2019 tournaments are ineligible to play professionally in the United Kingdom for six months.<\/p>\n Siddle, who represented Australia on 89 occasions across formats from 2008-2019, is currently playing for Multan Sultans in the Pakistan Super League, while he is signed with the Melbourne Stars for next summer\u2019s Big Bash League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran Australian bowler Peter Siddle has reportedly been banned from playing in this season\u2019s T20 Blast due to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-622565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}