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IPL contract bounds Kallis to play for RCB

Tournament rules may suggest otherwise but South African Twenty20 champions Warriors chief Dave Emslie says Jaques Kallis had no option but to play for Indian Premier League side Royal Challengers Bangalore in next month’s Champions League Twenty20.
Emslie said Kallis’ IPL contract obligated him to play for RCB in the CLT20 which begins in Johannesburg on September 16.

“Kallis’ contract (with RCB) says if his IPL team get into the CLT20 his team has the first option. He is obligated to play for RCB. For that we got USD 200,000. We would have wanted Kallis but the decision did not lay in our hands. We never had a choice,” he said in a media interaction with a group of Indian journalists.
“One can argue the merits of the case but that is the rule. They (CLT20) may be thinking of changing the rule in future,” he added.
CLT20 rules seemed confusing after Governing Council Member Dean Kino’s statement after the launch of the tournament in Johannesburg suggests that Kallis, New Zealander Ross Taylor and Australian Cameron White had the option not to choose RCB.