Wahab Riaz will be the fourth Pakistani player interviewed by police in connection with their spot-fixing investigations.
The left-arm seamer's team-mates were therefore left to endure yet another groundhog day after Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt communicated the latest twist in his sport's ongoing crisis.
He told a press conference in Lahore: "Police have ... requested that Wahab Riaz be made available for interview on September 14."
That appointment next Wednesday will coincide with Pakistan's scheduled arrival in London in preparation for the third of their five NatWest Series matches against England, at The Oval.
The naming of Riaz as the fourth player to be quizzed by police was hardly what the tourists needed to hear in Chester-le-Street, where they practised this morning for the opening match of the series.
It was, however, an eerily familiar turn of events.
Since Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer were first named by the News of the World in the Sunday tabloid's expose about an alleged plot to bowl no-balls to order in the Lord's Test, the tourists have repeatedly found themselves trying to focus on cricket rather than the controversy which has entirely overshadowed the limited-overs leg of their tour.
So it was again on Friday.
The addition of Riaz's name to those of his three team-mates - all subsequently charged and suspended by the International Cricket Council under the anti-corruption code - as a police interviewee begs the question of whether Pakistan will feel free to name him in their team.
A similar doubt hung over Kamran Akmal before Pakistan's second NatWest International Twenty20 defeat in Cardiff, after a press report had claimed the wicketkeeper was being investigated by the ICC's anti-corruption unit (ACSU) over suspicions at this summer's Asia Cup.
Pakistan picked Akmal then, and team manager Yawar Saeed had no reason to suspect Riaz might be left out for anything other than a selection issue or injury.
"Unless he's dropped, he will play," he said.
"If I'm told 'don't play X, Y, Z', they won't play."
"If I'm not told, I'll select the best team."
"But I've not been told anything. Let's wait."
Pakistan coach Waqar Younis must apparently also respond on such matters at the behest of others.
Speaking before the revelation about Riaz but after newspaper reports that Asif may be considering trying to claim asylum to try to avoid returning to Pakistan, Waqar made it clear he is simply trying to keep his team's minds on cricket.
"It's not my field," he said, when asked about the spot-fixing allegations."
"The PCB should sort it. It's not my job - my job is to look after on-the-field things."
That, of course, is no mean task either as Pakistan try to put their two dismal defeats in Wales behind them and provide competitive opposition for England in the forthcoming one-day internationals.
Policy in the Pakistan dressing-room at the moment, it seems, is simply not to discuss or even mention the allegations at all.
"That is what we have been doing - we are not really talking about it, and that is the best way to go about it," said Waqar.
"If you keep talking about these things your focus goes off track - which we have been in the last week."
"We [want to] make sure the crowd, which would have been disappointed in us the last few games, can come back and support us. It's our duty, I guess."
"We have to pull up our socks and play to our potential."
"We are a good side; we are a fine side - and we have shown it in patches on this tour."
Waqar is hoping the switch from 20-over to 50-over cricket may provide a watershed which helps Pakistan rediscover their best form.
"Whatever has happened has happened now, and this is a new series - a new ball game," said Waqar.
"If we can win this series things will sort of mellow down a little bit."
"These five ODIs will probably dictate where we stand and how we are going to go in the future."
"I am pretty sure we will deliver the goods in the next few days."
PCB chairman Butt, meanwhile, is expecting the three suspended players - including Asif - to return to Pakistan shortly.
"Since the players are neither being charged nor is there any restriction on their movement, we have informed the police that they will be travelling back to Pakistan in the next few days," he said.
"We will continue to co-operate with the police, because we also want to get to the bottom of the matter. Rest assured we will not leave any stone unturned to find the truth."