KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistani paceman Rana Naved has renewed his contract with Australian state side Tasmania just days after being slapped with a one-year ban from international cricket by his country’s board.

“They have renewed my contract for the Big Bash Twenty20 competition as the ban on me only prevents me from playing for the national team,” Naved told Reuters.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) imposed a one year ban and fined Naved two million rupees last week on the recommendations of an inquiry committee that looked into the team’s poor performances in Australia and reports of infighting in the team.

The ban bars Naved from playing for the national team but not in any other form of cricket and the 32-year-old said he was also in talks with English county Sussex to sign a contract with them for the coming season.