Pakistan Cup 2017

The ultimate One day tournament Pakistan Cup 2017 is scheduled by Pakistan Cricket Board to start from 11th of April to 5th May this year. The tournament will be contested among 5 teams which are named after provinces of the country as Punjab, Baluchistan, Sindh, KPK and Federal Area.

For the first time, the matches of Pakistan Cup have been scheduled all across the capitals of the provinces where at-least two matches will be played by each team in their home ground. The assigned stadiums for the matches are Quetta, Peshawar, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Karachi and the final to be played at Qaddafi stadium Lahore.

PCB has reportedly said that the players who have been dropped from national team will fullfill the captaincy job for the teams. Umar Akmal (Punjab), Fakhar Zaman (Balochistan), Imad Wasim (Federal), Anwar Ali (Sindh) and M.Rizwan (KPK) are the initial names of captains announced for their respective teams.

The selection of players will be based on draft system which will be carried out in Lahore on Tuesday among following names:

Opening Batsmen:

Imam ul Haq, Salman Butt, Behram Khan, Hamza Ghanchi, Fakhar Zaman, Zain Abbas, Fazal Subhan, Hasan Raza,Khurram Manzoor, Imran Butt, Sahibzadda Farhan, Jahid Ali, Awais Zia, Ahsan Ali, Israrullah, Fawad Khan

Middle Order Batsmen: Umar Akmal, Asif Zakir, Abdul Rehman Muzzamil, Iftikhar Ahmed, Faraz Ali, M.Naeem, Rameez Aziz, Fawad Alam, M. Saad, Fahad Iqbal, Faisal Iqbal, Umer Amin, Khushdil Shah, Sohaib Maqsood, Adil Amin, Akbar ur Rehman, Asif Ali(FATA), Asif Ali, Haris Sohail, Sarmad Bhatti, Saad Ali, Faizan Riaz, Abid Ali, Saud Shakeel, Sami Aslam,Tayyab Tahir

Wicket Keepers:

Adnan Akmal, Kamran Akmal, Bismillah Khan, M Rizwan, Saifullah Bangash, Gohar Ali, Junaid Ali, M Hassan, Umer Saddiqui

Spinner:

Zulfiqar Babar, Usama Mir, Zafar Gohar, Khalid Usman, Qaiser Ashraf, Raza ul Hassan, Azam Hussain, Shahzaid Ahmed,M Irfan.

Fast Bowlers:

Junaid Khan, Sohail Khan, Imran Khan Sr, Usman Shinwari, Rumman Raees, M Irfan Jr, Ahmed Bashir, Waqas Maqsood,Sadaif Mehdi, Sameen Gul, Taj Wali, Rana Shehzad Azam, Sadaf Hussain, M Sami, Mir Hamza, ZOhaib Shera, Zohaib Ahmed,Shah Faisal, Bilal Shah, Azizullah, Zia ul Haq, Bilawal Bhatii, Tabish Khan, Umer Gul, Adnan Ghaus

The tournament will be played with the format of Round Robin where each team will play one match each with the other. Following is the schedule of Pakistan Cup 2017:

11 April 2017

Baluchistan v Sindh Bugti at Bugti Stadium, Quetta

13 April 2017

Baluchistan v Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bugti Stadium, Quetta

16 April 2017

Punjab v Sindh at National Stadium, Karachi

18 April 2017

Punjab v Federal Areas at National Stadium, Karachi

21 April 2017 (D/N)

Baluchistan v Federal Areas at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi

23 April 2017 (D/N)

Federal Areas v Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi

26 April 2017 (D/N)

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa v Punjab at Arbab Niaz Stadium, Peshawar

28 April 2017

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa v Sindh at Arbab Niaz Stadium, Peshawar

1 May 2017

Baluchistan v Punjab at Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad

3 May 2017 (D/N)

Federal Areas v Punjab at Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad

5 May 2017 (D/N)

FINAL at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore.

All results and scorecards will be updated on Clubinfo.pk.

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