Besides, these three current players, nine other cricketers were terminated, including skipper Tauseef Ahmad and basit Ali. The 12 cricketers sacked are: Waqar Younis, Mushtaq Ahmad, Inzamamul Haq, Basit Ali, Tauseef Ahmad, Umer Rasheed, Salim Jaffar, Hasnain Kazim, Iqbal Imam, Aamir Bashir, Mohammad Ramazan and Javed Sami Khan.

Informed sources stated that Younis, Ahmad and Haq will be served with termination letters later this week while the other nine have been served with the notices.

Sources stated that the nine players were formed the backbone of the United Bank in Karachi while Waqar Younis is posted in Vehari, Mushtaq Ahmad in Sahiwal and Inzamamul Haq in Multan.

Sources added that the sacking of the 12 cricketers was because the bank terminated 6,000 employees who were either appointed or promoted after Oct 1991. The decision to sack 6,000 employee was ordered by bank's president Zubair Sumroo following a probe by a three-member committee.

Each appointed at a gross salary of more than Rs 100,000 a month. Sources, however, disclosed that the sacked players will earn all the benefits they would have got had they taken a golden handshake with the bank. The sacking of 12 cricketers has cast doubts over the participation of United Bank team in the Patron's Trophy which begins from oct 17. United Bank are the defending champions.