"It is a relief to hear that finally we will get a chance to compete with the best teams in the Champions League," Malik told PTI.
The Malik-led Sialkot Stallions team has won the national T20 championship and super eights titles this season.
The star-studded Sialkot side that includes Imran Nazir, Rana Naved, Shakeel Ansar has been the national T20 champions in Pakistan six times.
The BCCI today announced that Pakistan would be allowed to send its national T20 team for the Champions League during its working committee meeting in Chennai.
The governing board of the Champions League that includes the South African and Australian boards will have to ratify the BCCI recommendation at its meeting later this month.
Although the Sialkot team was due to take part in the first Champions League in 2008 and some of its players had already reached India for this purpose, things didn't work out when in the same month in November that year the Mumbai terror attacks took place.
The attacks led to India suspending its bilateral cricket ties with Pakistan and since than Pakistani players have neither been invited for the Indian Premier League nor for the Champions League.
The domestic T20 champions from Test playing nations compete in the Champions League.
Malik said that he had been praying and hoping for a break this year.
"The ice has finally been broken and I am delighted that finally our team will get a chance to play in the tournament in India," the former Pakistan captain said.
He said that Sialkot team would play like the Pakistan team in India. MORE
