India, June 9 -- Yusuf Pathan made his name finishing innings - a slog-overs specialist for India and Kolkata Knight Riders who cleared the ropes when it mattered. Now the Trinamool Congress MP from Baharampur is at the centre of a very different contest, named by his own party's leaders as a possible defector even as he has said nothing himself. His former captain has already drawn a distance, though.

Yusuf Pathan's name surfaced as the TMC's Lok Sabha unit split, with a rebel group led by Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar claiming to have "nearly 20 MPs" who would back the BJP-led NDA regime.

The first to call out the occasional off-spinner Pathan was the TMC's Krishnanagar MP Mahua Moitra. "And [Yusuf Pathan] you are rushing to Delhi because [Un...