Sport

Runaway Pakistan wicketkeeper returns home

11:17 am on 26 April 2011

The runaway Pakistan wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider has returned home from London having been assured by the government he'll be safe Pakistan.

The wicketkeeper had fled the team hotel in Dubai last November during a one-day series against South Africa claiming he had received death threats for refusing to take part in match fixing.

Haider had applied for asylum in Britain but, after recently meeting with a Pakistani government minister, said he'd return home and withdrew his application with the British Home Office.

The Pakistan Cricket Board says Haider will have to go through a disciplinary process for breaching the players' code of conduct by leaving the team without informing management.