Spock, in pretty much all sports there are get out cluses in contracts - especially for medical reasons, Wasim shouldn’t get into trouble - legal ramifications I mean. If a player is suffering ill health or injured (which is warranted by a medical certificate) then that individual has every right to pull out of any activity for the team in any period of time in which the injury is occurant. Basically he doesn’t have to play if he’s not upto it but that doesn’t mean he can break his contract - The most likely thing is that Wasim Akram will have talked to the Hampshire bosses and sorted out some sort of a package in which he can leave and nobody will lose out. Technically this could benifit Hampshire as they would still probably have to pay for the rest of the contract unless he did indeed break it - Even if he wasn’t playing though that of course would just be the standard wages which is generally not very much. It is different in each specific case - It depends on the circumstances I guess but usually an amicable agreement is reached without too much problem when it involved injury or ill health - of course irrelevant of whether a deal is struck or not the player can still break his contract - though there can be further ramifications. I hope you understood most of that - Sorry - I know its a bit complicated.
