National T20 Cup to commence from December 10 in Multan

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Players selected in eight teams for National T20 Cup 2018




National T-20 Cup 2018-19 Players Selection Ceremony is underway at the GSL

 

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[Abdullah719]

What exactly is the point of this tournament now when it'll be held after the PSL draft?

 

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Arsal Sheikh has been selected by Islamabad

 

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Players Selection Ceremony for National T20 Cup 2018-19

Lahore-November 8, 2018: The PCB held Players Selection Ceremony for National T-20 Cup at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore today. Eight Regional sides Lahore Blues, Lahore Whites, Karachi Whites, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Multan, FATA, and Peshawar selected 14 players each to complete their set of 18 players for the tournament.

All teams had picked four players each before the start of the ceremony; whereas each team had to include atleast two Emerging Players in their squads. The Player Selection Ceremony was held in a cordial atmosphere, where the regions were represented by Presidents and Coaches. The junior and senior selection committee members assisted the regional teams to make formidable combinations for the T20 tournament

The National T20 Cup 2018-19 will commence from December 10, 2018 to December 25, 2018 in Multan.

 

[Abdullah719]

 

[fluke]

sadaf hussain is ignored once again

 

[RehanG]

Very strong squads, but where is Sarfraz? and why did they make captain Anwar Ali, Saad Naeem ect captain..

 

[Sadozai]

Ruman Raees ignored or injured??

 

[ataullah]

Nasir nawaz and Nasim Shah picked. No Muhammad hasnain or Musa

 

[Finisher]

Arsal Sheikh is the only player in the Emerging category from Islamabad. When will this Sifarishi be dropped.

 

[Abdullah719]

Arsal Sheikh is the only player in the Emerging category from Islamabad. When will this Sifarishi be dropped.

Obviously a well thought out selection.

 

[run-out]

Fahim always gets the team where he has to bat down the oder

 

[Madplayer]

Sad to see Saif Badar being selecter in Akmal mafia squad. Now they will ensure he is either not picked in the XI or made to bat at 6 or 7.

 

[GoUgandaCranes]

Obviously a well thought out selection.

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Pakistan ki cricket chaahay submerge ho jaaye but in uncle kay bachoun nay zaroor emerge hona hai.

 

[Shafi]

So even under IK there is no difference!!! Its all politics, loot tax payers' money and nobody really give a damn of our cricket.

 

[Angrez Pakistani]

Shameful stuff by PCB. You don’t need drafts in the domestic cricket. A player from one region should never play for another region. Where is the incentive for a region to actually invest in youth? This system is killing cricket in Pakistan.

 

[Syed1]

Yes.... just what we needed more domestic T20 tournaments because we seem to be doing spectacularly in ODIs.


Thank you PCB

 

[Syed1]

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Holy smokes.... that Rawalpindi side tho.... Pindi boys going to smash everyone

 

[Madplayer]

Holy smokes.... that Rawalpindi side tho.... Pindi boys going to smash everyone

Brilliant young squad. Hope they pick the correct XI.

 

[Brilliance]

Have always supported Rawalpindi Rams as they used to be known in FB T20. They always used to have youngsta beauties.

1 Sami Aslam.
2 Nasir Nawaz.
3 Umar Amin.
4 Saud Shakeel.
5 Umair Masood wk.
6 Hammad Azam.
7 Fahim Ashraf.
8 Shadab Khan.
9 Khalid Usman.
10 Sohail Tanveer.
11 Mohammad Amir *.

 

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[Hawkeye]

This is so so so sad.

The same old names, the same old process, even in "NAYA PAK". Courtesy IK and Ehsan Mani.


Where's the change? New faces? Merit?

 

[Titan24]

Some pretty impressive emerging players.

 

[pakistanigoneaussie]

Good to see nasir Nawaz back

 

[Madplayer]

Good to see nasir Nawaz back

How do you rate him?

 

[pakistanigoneaussie]

How do you rate him?

Way off from contention, but he can hit the ball and that in of itself is something special considering our lack of talent in that area.

I don't think he is anything special, but maybe he can fill a role as an attacking opener.

 

[mak36]

These squads are actually pretty good.

 

[DRsohail]

Rawalpindi will be my team IA.

 

[Syed1]

Good to see nasir Nawaz back

This suggests to me that previous PCB management were deliberately keeping him out for talking against PCB.

Thank you Sethi.

 

[Arham_PakFan]

Good to see nasir Nawaz back

Same. Glad to see his name.

Sad that he missed last few domestic tournaments just because he hurt some people's egos.

 

[Abdullah719]

Text version of the teams for those who like to use ctrl+F at times



FATA: Usman Khan Shinwari (c), Shaheen Shah Afridi, Khushdil Shah, Asif Afridi, Sohail Akhtar, Mukhtar Ahmed, Adil Admin, Kashif Bhatti, Sameen Gul, Usama Mir, Mohammad Saad, Nasir Ahmed, Asad Afridi, Samiullah jr (E), Bismillah Khan, Abbas Afridi (E), Rehan Afridi, Fazal-ur-Rehman

Islamabad: Imad Wasim (c), Shan Masood, Umar Gul, Rohail Nazir, Iftikhar Ahmed, Asif Ali, Junaid Khan, Abid Ali, Sohail Khan, Nauman Ali, Faizan Riaz, Ali Sarfraz, Sarmad Bhatti, Ibtisam Sheikh, Arsal Sheikh (E), Shehzad Azam Rana, Ahmed Bashir, Rizwan Ali

Karachi Whites: Anwar Ali (c), Mohammad Asghar, Mohammad Sami, Khurram Manzoor, Shoaib Malik, Rameez Raja jr, Awais Zia, Danish Aziz, Mohammad Hasan, Fawad Alam, Raza Hasan, Arshad Iqbal (E), Tabish Khan, Akbar-ur-Rehman, Rahat Ali, Ahsan Ali, Fahad Iqbal, Saim Ayub (E)

Lahore Blues: Saad Nasim (c), Aizaz Cheema, Waqas Ahmed, Hussain Talat, Nauman Anwar, Agha Salman, Ehsan Adil, Raza Ali Dar, Mohammad Irfan (left-arm spinner), Zaid Alam (E), Rizwan Hussain, Imran Butt, Adnan Akmal, Bilal Khan (E), Bilawal Iqbal, Zain Abbas, Jaahid Ali, Salman Fayyaz

Lahore Whites: Kamran Akmal (c), Salman Butt, Umar Akmal, Wahab Riaz, Umaid Asif, Zafar Gohar, Amad Butt, Hasan Khan, Zeeshan Ashraf, Saif Badar (E), Tayyab Tahir, Naseem Shah (E), Kamran Ghulam, Umar Siddiq, Mansoor Amjad, Ali Khan, Ali Shafiq, Ali Zaryab

Multan: Sohaib Maqsood (c), Mohammad Irfan, Zulfiqar Babar, Aamer Yamin, Mohammad Hafeez, Zeeshan Malik (E), Bilawal Bhatti, Mohammad Mohsin, Mohammad Irfan (leg-spinner), Imran Farhat, Mohammad Imran, Gulraiz Sadaf, Ali Usman, Hasan Mohsin (E), Imran Rafiq, Hasnain Bukhari, Sadaif Mehdi, Waqar Hussain

Peshawar: Mohammad Rizwan (c), Imran Khan jr, Israrullah, Sahibzada Farhan, Fakhar Zaman, Zohaib Khan, Taj Wali, Ali Imran, Saad Ali, Waqas Maqsood, Nabi Gul (E), Mohammad Waqas jr, Gauhar Ali, Sajid Khan, Mohammad Ilyas (E), Imran Khan, Raees Ahmed, Suleman Shafqat (E)

Rawalpindi: Mohammad Amir (c), Sohail Tanvir, Mohammad Nawaz, Shadab Khan, Umar Amin, Faheem Ashraf, Saud Shakeel, Sami Aslam, Khalid Usman, Hammad Azam, Umair Masood (E), Naved Malik, Zahid Mansoor, Nasir Nawaz (E), Yasir Ali, Jamal Anwar, Nihal Mansoor, Haider Ali (E)

 

[Arham_PakFan]

Even though there are lots of TTF's in these squads, happy to see players like Zeeshan Malik, Saif Badar, Ali Shafiq, Saim Ayub, Umair Masood etc.

Lets hope they are given opportunities.

 

[Brilliance]

Is there a rule that binds the teams to play an emerging player in the XI ?

 

[Salman4.]

Aamer and Shinwari as captains? What did I just see!

 

[Raja Danish]

Have always supported Rawalpindi Rams as they used to be known in FB T20. They always used to have youngsta beauties.

1 Sami Aslam.
2 Nasir Nawaz.
3 Umar Amin.
4 Saud Shakeel.
5 Umair Masood wk.
6 Hammad Azam.
7 Fahim Ashraf.
8 Shadab Khan.
9 Khalid Usman.
10 Sohail Tanveer.
11 Mohammad Amir *.

Good balanced lineup and i think nasir nawaz needs to step up his game and score runs as i feel he can be the guy who could be invested in limited overs formats in future.....

 

[MMHS]

Good to see Amir leading finally. But, I don't think Rawalpindi has the best team - to me the best squad is Lahore White.

1. Kamran Akmal (c)
2. Salman Butt
3. Umar Siddiq
4. Umar Akmal
5. Saif Badar (E)
6. Kamran Ghulam
7. Amad Butt
8. Zafar Gohar
9. Wahab Riaz
10. Umaid Asif
11. Naseem Shah (E)/Ali Khan
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Hasan Khan, Zeeshan Ashraf, Tayyab Tahir, Mansoor Amjad, Ali Shafiq, Ali Zaryab

Gun team for domestics.

 

[SarfiBabarHaris]

Finally nasir Nawaz is back. Shukarrr!

 

[Cosmic]

which team sarfaraz ahmed is in it ?

 

[Abdullah719]

which team sarfaraz ahmed is in it ?

None.

 

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Lahore–December 7, 2018: The National T-20 Cup 2018-19 will be played from December 10, 2018, to December 25, 2018 at Multan Cricket Stadium, Multan (itinerary attached). Eight teams Rawalpindi Region, Islamabad Region, Lahore Region Whites, Lahore Region Blues, Peshawar Region, Fata Region, Karachi Region Whites, and Multan Region will participate in the tournament. Each team will play seven matches in the tournament. The top four teams will play the semi-finals on December 24, 2018. The final of the tournament will be played on December 25, 2018.

 

[Prince of Pakistan]

I guess alot of players will miss out as many are featuring in the emerging Asia Cup and the Pak test players might rest a week before preparing for SA tour.

Guys like Saud Shakeel will miss a good chance to showcase themselves.

 

[Asif321]

Meaningless tournaments which will only give us players like bilal Asif mukhtar Ahmed rifattaluah

 

[JaanZeb]

Useless and wasted tournament when selectors not going to select players from here and rather play their family members.

This sort of tournament should've happened before the PSL draft, nonsensical decision to organize it.

Same cronyism, nepotism going on. Shakeel Sheikh son and nephews in different teams. Ehsan Mani is worse than Najam Sethi.

 

[Abdullah719]

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Select only one 'emerging' player so that he must play

 

[Angrez Pakistani]

There was a time when I would wait for this tournament all year just to see my team loose in virtually every final against Sialkot Stallions. Now the standards have drastically gone down the drain. That feeling of regional loyalty died when they started the draft system. How can Shoaib Malik play for Karachi!!!!! He was the tormentor of my sole when his team would beat Karachi Dolphins every year without fail. Now there are no Sialkot Stallions, no Karachi Kings, no Lahore Lions. Only PCB knows how to kill its own product.