The Bombay High Court will hear on Tuesday Pakistan Cricket Board's appeal against the stay order passed by a Mumbai arbitrator on batsman Mohammad Yousuf, which stops him from participating in the Indian Premier League (IPL).

The 'rebel' Indian Cricket League (ICL) had started legal proceedings against Yousuf with an arbitrator in Mumbai last year after the senior batsman backed out of a contract with them late last year and preferred to play for Pakistan.

The PCB later tried to get Yousuf a contract with the IPL but the move was stopped by the arbitrator, who issued a stay order against the batsman playing in any other league.

The Pakistan Board has filed an appeal to the High Court on behalf of Yousuf and it will be heard on September 2.

"We will be represented by advocate Iqbal Chagla in the appeal hearing in the Bombay High Court," Tafazzul Rizvi, the legal counsel of the Pakistan board, told PTI on Friday.

He said the decision to file a separate appeal in the High Court was taken after former Pakistan captain Moin Khan changed his statement.

The PCB and Yousuf have been claiming that the advance money the ICL paid to the batsman was returned immediately through Moin, who runs a sports marketing company and was instrumental in signing up players for the ICL.

But Rizvi said that at the last hearing held by the arbitrator in Mumbai, which was attended by him and ICL's legal counsel and another official, Moin said he was not an agent for the ICL but for Yousuf.

"This has put us on the wrong foot and made the ICL case stronger against Yousuf," Rizvi admitted. But he was hopeful that the appeal against the stay order would be decided in their favour.