Pakistan all-rounder Rana Naved-ul- Hasan is to return to Sussex as a short-term replacement overseas player for compatriot Yasir Arafat. Sources quoted Sussex professional cricket manager Mark Robinson as saying: "We are extremely fortunate to have a player of the quality of Rana to cover Yasir. Rana, 32, a crowd favourite at Hove but less of a success with Yorkshire, is expected to be available until May 21, when Arafat arrives following World Twenty20 duty.
Rana is not required for that tournament after he was one of a host of national players handed lengthy suspensions by the Pakistan Cricket Board last month in the wake of their dreadful tour of Australia. Rana was a revelation in his first spell at Sussex, taking 139 wickets in their 2005 and 2006 championship successes, and forming a formidable attack with fellow Pakistani Mushtaq Ahmed.
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