Cricketer Ajay Jadeja, whose five-year match-fixing ban was overturned earlier this week by the Delhi high court, was stopped from playing a local league match on Thursday.

Jadeja was playing his first official game in over two years for the National Stadium Cricket Club, a prominent team in New Delhi's first-division league, when organisers intervened and had the match abandoned.

"We started the game, but after about five to seven overs Delhi and District Cricket Association officials arrived and said they would not let me play," Jadeja said.

"As far as I was concerned, I was free to play cricket. I'm not sure what the legality of the matter is," Jadeja said.

The BCCI has said their decision-making working committee will decide in 90 days on Jadeja's fate and if they want to challenge the court order.

"The board has already said they will take three months to get legal opinion," DDCA vice-president C K Khanna said.

"Unless we receive a directive from the BCCI, how can we allow Jadeja to play?"

But Jadeja's lawyer Vineet Malhotra said he did not need any further permission.

"I don't understand why the DDCA officials should behave like this," he said. "If this carries on then we would have no option but to file for contempt of court."

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