Fast bowler Shane Bond left New Zealand to play in the rebel Indian Cricket League, clinging to hope the ICL will eventually be officially recognised and that his international career may resume.
"I'm sure the restraint of trade things will eventually be tested and who knows what will open up. The landscape is changing all the time," Bond said.
New Zealand has joined all Test-playing nations in refusing to sanction the ICL, while allowing its players to join the Indian Premier League which will operate under the auspices of the Board of Control for Cricket in India.
Bond, 32, will receive a reported US$800,000 a year for playing in the ICL. In doing so, he has had to give up his international career because New Zealand Cricket has instructed its national selectors not to consider players with ICL connections.
Bond is shortly to join the English county Hampshire on a short-term contract but that involvement might also suffer because of his ICL involvement.
The England and Wales Cricket Board has warned that players with an ICL affiliation may not receive the necessary clearances to be registered for county play.
"The ECB board (is) determined to disassociate and distance itself from any promoter, agent or individual involved in such events," it said in a statement Wednesday.

ya at least icl is not controlled by idiots.