[PICTURE] National T20 Cup 2024-25 - Discussion thread

[The Bald Eagle]

The National T20 Cup 2024-25 will commence from Friday, 14 March with 18 teams from 16 regions set to take part in the event. The tournament will see 39 matches played across three cities – Faisalabad, Lahore and Multan.

The Iqbal Stadium in Faisalabad will host 23 matches, including the knockout stage of the competition. In Lahore, the Gaddafi Stadium and LCCA Ground will serve as the two venues, while the Multan Cricket Stadium will host eight games.

A prize pot of PKR 9.4 million will also be up for grabs, with the winning team clinching PKR five million and the runners-up getting PKR 2.5 million.

The 18 teams have been divided into four groups, with Karachi Region (Blues), Lahore Region (Whites), Larkana Region, Peshawar Region, and Quetta Region placed in Group A. In Group B, defending champions Karachi Region (Whites) are placed alongside Bahawalpur Region, Dera Murad Jamali Region, Islamabad Region and Lahore Region (Blues).

In Group C, Abbottabad Region, Faisalabad Region, Hyderabad Region and Rawalpindi Region will go head-to-head, while Group D will see AJK Region, FATA Region, Multan Region and Sialkot Region play each other.

The top two sides from each group will qualify for the quarter-finals, to be played at the Iqbal Stadium in Faisalabad on 23 and 24 March. The semi-finals will be staged on Wednesday, 26 March, followed by the final on 27 March, all at the same venue.

The double-header matches in Faisalabad, including the opening match between Karachi Whites and Islamabad Region, will begin at 7pm, while the second match on the same day will be played at 11pm. In Lahore and Multan, the action in the first match will get underway at 4.30pm, while the second match will begin at 9pm.




Squads

Abbottabad Region:

Adil Naz, Afaq Ahmad, Ahmad Khan, Aitzaz Habib Khan, Aqib Khan, Arshad Iqbal, Fayyaz Khan, Kamran Ghulam, Khalid Usman, Khayam Khan, Mohammad Arif, Sajjad Ali Hashmi, Shahab Khan, Shahzaib Khan and Yasir Shah

Reserve players:

Anees Azam, Israr Hussain, Mehroz Rasheed, Mohammad Adil and Riazullah

AJK Region:

Aqib Liaqat, Awais Akram, Basit Ali, Faizan Saleem, Hassan Raza (Captain), Hussnain Nadeem, Mohammad Haider, Nadeem Khalil, Naveed Malik, Qazi Arbaqan, Rohan Qadri, Saad Asif, Salman Irshad, Usman Maroof and Zaman Khan

Reserve players:

Ibrar Ahmed, Moin pervaiz, Najam Naseer Kayani, Raja Farhan and Usman Yousaf

Bahawalpur Region:

Muhammad Imran Randhawa (Captain), Ali Shabbir, Aun Shehzad, Hasnain Majid, Imran Khan Snr, Mehran Sanwal, Mohammad Akram, Mohammad Ammar, Mohammad Azab, Mohammad Faizan, Mohammad Faizan Zafar, Mohammad Junaid, Mohammad Shaharyar, Mohammad Shahid, Mohammad Sudais and Salahuddin

Reserve players:

Ali Umar, Gulfam Aziz, Khaqan Bashir, Muhammad Alamgir and Shayan Khalil

Dera Murad Jamali:

Abubakar, Basit Ali, Dawood Khan, Fahad Hussain, Farhad Khan, Majid Ali, Mohammad Deen, Mohammad Shahid, Mohammad Uzair, Nasir Khan, Rasool Bakhsh, Shoaib Ahmed, Tariq Jameel, Yasir Hussain and Zahoor Ahmed

Faisalabad Region:

Asif Ali (Captain), Ahmed Safi Abdullah, Ali Asfand, Ali Raza, Ali Shan, Ibtisam-ur-Rehman, Khurram Shehzad, Mohammad Awais Zafar, Mohammad Faizan, Mohammad Kashif, Mohammad Zeeshan, Momin Qamar, Raees Ahmed, Shehzad Gul and Taimur Sultan

Reserve players:

Asad Raza, Asim Ali Nasir, Arham Nawab, Atiq-ur-Rehman and Hammad Hamza

Fata Region:

Asif Afridi (Captain), Afaq Ahmed, Azaz Khan, Ifranullah Shah, Khubaib Khalil, Maaz Khan, Mohammad Farooq, Mohammad Naeem, Mohammad Sarwar Afridi, Mohammad Usman, Rehan Afridi, Salman Khan, Sameen Gul, Samiullah Jnr and Shahid Aziz

Reserve players:

Aimal Khan, Fazal-ur-Rehman, Khayal Man, Nisar Afridi and Sohaib Khan

Hyderabad Region:

Akbar Khan, Fawad Ahmed, Jawad Ali Bhatti, Kashif Bhatti, Majid Asghar, Mohammad Hasnain, Mohammad Saddam, Mohammad Waqar, Muhammad Azeem Ghumman, Mustafa Nasir, Noman Ali, Rizwan Mehmood, Saad Khan, Sharjeel Khan and Ubaidullah Khan

Reserve players:

Asad Malik, Fardeen, Haris Khan, Mohammad Huzaifa and Sheharyar Baloch

Islamabad Region:

Ali Imran, Arsal Sheikh, Farmanullah Khan, Hammad Saddique, Kaleem Dil, Mohammad Umair Riaz, Musa Khan, Naseerullah Khan, Nusratullah, Raja Hamza Waheed, Rohail Nazir, Sarmad Bhatti, Shamyl Hussain, Shayan Sheikh and Umair Afridi

Reserve players:

Faizan Riaz, Mohammad Hammad Khan, Mohammad Nadeem, Murtaza Jamal and Rizwan Ali

Karachi Region Blues:

Abdullah Fazal, Aftab Ibrahim, Arish Ali Khan, Bahadur Ali, Fahad Amin, Huzaifa Munir, Jahanzaib Sultan, Kashif Ali, Mohammad Asghar, Mohammad Hamza Sohail, Muhammad Ghazi Ghori, Rameez Aziz, Saifullah Bangash, Wahaj Riaz and Waleed Azeem

Reserve players:

Adeel Meo, Aftab Khan, Arbaz Khan, Naveed Ahmed Khan and Sahil Iqbal

Karachi Region Whites:

Afnan Khan, Arif Yaqoob, Danish Aziz, Haroon Arshad, Khurram Manzoor, Khwaja Mohammad Nafay, Mir Hamza, Mohammad Taha, Mohammad Umar, Saad Baig, Saqib Khan, Saud Shakeel, Shan Masood and Sohail Khan

Reserve players:

Abdul Moiz, Ashiq Ali, Maaz Khurram Amin, Mohammad Tariq Khan and Sarfaraz Ahmed

Lahore Region Blues:

Farhan Yousaf, Hammad Butt, Hunain Shah, Hussain Talat, Imran Butt, Junaid Ali, Mohammad Arsalan, Mohammad Irfan, Mohammad Rizwan, Mohammad Zahid, Nisar Ahmed, Qasim Akram, Salman Mirza, Samama Riaz and Umar Siddiq

Reserve players:

Asfand Mehran, Hafiz Usman Nadeem, Hamid Liaqat, Intasar Ali and Khawaja Mohammad Abdullah

Lahore Region Whites:

Ahmed Bashir, Ahmed Daniyal, Attayb Ahmed, Hassan Rizwan, Kamran Afzal, Mohammad Azeem, Mohammad Faiq, Mohammad Mohsin, Mohammad Rameez. Mohammad Saleem, Mohammad Salman, Muhammad Akhlaq, Saad Nasim, Tayyab Tahir, Ubaid Shah and Zain Bin Farooq

Reserve Players:

Danish Butt, Imran Dogar, Mohammad Ahsan, Mohammad Waheed and Wasiullah

Larkana Region:

Amir Ali Babar, Amir Ali Brohi, Aqeel Danish, Bilal Irshad, Ghulam Raza Mahar, Imtiaz Laghari, Mohsin Raza, Muhshtaq Ahmed, Sabit Ali, Sarfraz Ali, Shahnawaz Dahani, Shahzaib Ali, Shahzaib Aziz, Umar Khalid and Zahid Mehmood

Reserve players:

Asif Ali Chandio, Faraz Aziz, Hamesh Kumar, Mohammad Umar and Najaf Ali

Multan Region:

Aamer Yamin, Ali Majid, Arfat Minhas, Faisal Akram, Humayun Altaf, Imam-ul-Haq, M Ismail Watto, Muhammad Shahzad, Sharoon Siraj, Tahir Hussain, Uzair Mumtaz, Waqar Hussain, Waseem Akram Jnr, Zain Abbas and Zeeshan Ashraf

Reserve players:

Ali Haider, Ali Usman, Huzaifa Ayub, Mohammad Sadaqat and Rao Irfan

Peshawar Region:

Iftikhar Ahmed (Captain), Abubakkar, Adil Amin, Israrullah, Maaz Sadaqat, Moazzam Umar, Mohammad Amir Khan, Mohammad Imran Jnr, Mohammad Zulkifal, Muhammad Amir Barki, Niaz Khan, Nizar Ali, Sahibzada Farhan, Usman Tariq and Waqar Ahmed

Reserve players:

Ahmed Khan, Gohar Ali, Hilal Khan, Mohsin Khan and Nabi Gul

Quetta Region:

Abdul Hameed, Abdul Wahid Bangalzai, Bismillah khan, Bohar Aman, Ehsanullah, Haseebullah, Latifullah, Mohammad Ibrahim, Mohammad Idrees, Mohammad Junaid, Najeebullah, Sajid Khan, Shamraiz Khan, Usman Khan Shinwari and Yasir Khan

Reserve players:

Ikramullah, Mohammad Imran, Mohammad Javed, Nizamuddin and Sohail Majeed

Rawalpindi Region:

Aqib Shah, Atif Khan, Kashif Ali, Mehran Mumtaz, Mohammad Awais Anwar, Mohammad Faizan, Mohammad Nabeel, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Raza-ul-Mustafa, Mubasir Khan, Nasir Nawaz, Saad Masood, Taimur Khan, Yasir Khan and Zeeshan Malik

Reserve players:

Abdul Faseeh, Ali Hasnain, Amir Hassan, Usman Khan and Ziad Khan

Sialkot Region:

Abdullah Shafique, Afzaal Manzoor, Ahmed Hassan, Ahsan Hafeez Bhatti, Amad Butt, Ashir Mehmood, Bilawal Bhatti, Hasan Ali, Mirza Tahir Baig, Mohammad Huraira, Mohsin Riaz, Shoaib Akhtar Jnr, Shoaib Malik and Usama Mir

Reserve players:

Ali Shafique, Awais Ali, Ayaz Tasawar, Azan Awais and Shahzaib Bhatti

 

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[Rana]

Faisalabad Region:

Asif Ali (Captain), Ahmed Safi Abdullah, Ali Asfand, Ali Raza, Ali Shan, Ibtisam-ur-Rehman, Khurram Shehzad, Mohammad Awais Zafar, Mohammad Faizan, Mohammad Kashif, Mohammad Zeeshan, Momin Qamar, Raees Ahmed, Shehzad Gul and Taimur Sultan

Reserve players:

Asad Raza, Asim Ali Nasir, Arham Nawab, Atiq-ur-Rehman and Hammad Hamza

Yes boy!

 

[Rana]

Karachi Region Whites:

Afnan Khan, Arif Yaqoob, Danish Aziz, Haroon Arshad, Khurram Manzoor, Khwaja Mohammad Nafay, Mir Hamza, Mohammad Taha, Mohammad Umar, Saad Baig, Saqib Khan, Saud Shakeel, Shan Masood and Sohail Khan

Reserve players:

Abdul Moiz, Ashiq Ali, Maaz Khurram Amin, Mohammad Tariq Khan and Sarfaraz Ahmed

One of the better teams

 

[Shehmir]

Why Shoaib Malik, Sarfaraz Ahmed & Wahab Riaz still part of these squads? Its time to say good bye to them

 

[Rana]

Why Shoaib Malik, Sarfaraz Ahmed & Wahab Riaz still part of these squads? Its time to say good bye to them

Why are Babar and Rizwan not part of any squad?

 

[Shehmir]

Why are Babar and Rizwan not part of any squad?

They wanted rest before NZL odi series & PSL.

 

[Kashmiri_Pak_fan]

Where is Haider Ali?

 

[Shehmir]

Where is Haider Ali?

He is another player who was given too much hype due to some PSL performances

 

[Omer2002]

How come so many teams the quality will be poor

 

[jamie smith]

No Mehran mumtaz and Haider Ali lol

 

[Shaka81]

Sialkot Region:

Abdullah Shafique, Afzaal Manzoor, Ahmed Hassan, Ahsan Hafeez Bhatti, Amad Butt, Ashir Mehmood, Bilawal Bhatti, Hasan Ali, Mirza Tahir Baig, Mohammad Huraira, Mohsin Riaz, Shoaib Akhtar Jnr, Shoaib Malik and Usama Mir

Reserve players:

Ali Shafique, Awais Ali, Ayaz Tasawar, Azan Awais and Shahzaib Bhatti

Odd choices. There are some better players in the reserves than the main squad....

 

[Rana]

Most of the exiting players are with the national squad

 

[Kianig89]

Pathetic why do PCB arrange multiple T20 tournaments with Zilch quality, any Tom Dick & Harry scoring a couple of 50s here will vouch for T20 squad, look at the prize money Rs.5 Million. Person on tik-tok are earning more than this, 16 teams sums up the quality of product being offered. Then we want to compete with Australia & India.

 

[Kianig89]

Most of the exiting players are with the national squad

Where is your heart throb Sharjeel Khan

 

[Muhammad Saad]

Lots of young unknown players hopefully we might find couple of good players for national team , I agreed some of the deserving players are in the reserve squad for unknown reason with prime example being Azan and A.Fasih and Usman Khan the U19 kid.

 

[Rana]

Where is your heart throb Sharjeel Khan

You can read English. Look for him.

 

[Muhammad Saad]

If the Maaz Khan is that 15 year old leggie who can turn the ball even on marble surface then I am super excited to see him bowl , he is been in the talks for 2 years now.

 

[ataullah]

If the Maaz Khan is that 15 year old leggie who can turn the ball even on marble surface then I am super excited to see him bowl , he is been in the talks for 2 years now.

Which region is he representing?

 

[Muhammad Saad]

Which region is he representing?

Fata , I don’t know If he is the older Maaz khan who played PSL for Lahore few years ago or the new kid.

 

[Xoib]

Where has Awais Anwar disappeared the boy looked really good

 

[Muhammad Saad]

Where has Awais Anwar disappeared the boy looked really good

He is in pindi squad.

 

[Muhammad Saad]

PCB clearly promoting young talent in this tournament, lots of these names are unheard before and the regular domestic veterans have sit out for this tournament.

 

[jamie smith]

He is in pindi squad.

Where has Awais Anwar disappeared the boy looked really good

 

[Muhammad Saad]

No Mehran mumtaz and Haider Ali lol

Mehran is there

 

[jamie smith]

Lol azan Awais has to sit out for 43 year old Shoaib malik

PCB clearly promoting young talent in this tournament, lots of these names are unheard before and the regular domestic veterans have sit out for this tournament.

 

[jamie smith]

Mehran is there

Oh sorry.
I missed his name.

 

[Xoib]

He is in pindi squad.

Good to see .

Awais Anwar, Mohammad Salman and Ali Raza are my future hopes of course being Pakistan we will waste them but one can still hope

 

[jamie smith]

Is Mohammad Shehzad in any squad??
I can't find him in any of the kpk squads.

Good to see .

Awais Anwar, Mohammad Salman and Ali Raza are my future hopes of course being Pakistan we will waste them but one can still hope

 

[Xoib]

Is Mohammad Shehzad in any squad??
I can't find him in any of the kpk squads.

Multan

 

[Aami]

Lost count of how many competitions they have ... still cant compete at any level.

 

[GoUgandaCranes]

US$ 34 approximate fee for a player playing a match for this tournament. What era is this?

 

[Markhor]

Lost count of how many competitions they have ... still cant compete at any level.

Yep. The other issue is with the addition of departments and Champions Cups to the existing regional structure, the cost of staging domestic cricket has surged.

Under Ehsan Mani there was an attempt to create self-financing regional associations - some of them actually got sponsored. Unfortunately Sethi tore it up and reverted to the old failed setup.

Look we have 3 FC tournaments in 2025 alone along with multiple white-ball competitions. We have the worst of all worlds now - quantity over quality and massive financial burden for PCB.

 

[Aami]

Yep. The other issue is with the addition of departments and Champions Cups to the existing regional structure, the cost of staging domestic cricket has surged.

Under Ehsan Mani there was an attempt to create self-financing regional associations - some of them actually got sponsored. Unfortunately Sethi tore it up and reverted to the old failed setup.

Look we have 3 FC tournaments in 2025 alone along with multiple white-ball competitions. We have the worst of all worlds now - quantity over quality and massive financial burden for PCB.

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I just don't get it Pak cricket has always been chaotic but they somehow could find a way to compete, now its TOXIC!

Current players, former players, coaches, board members, journos, even US supporters at each other's throats like hyenas.

I just think they've burnt their boats too many times, way too many. I don't think they can find their way back now.

And, its so sad.

 

[Da_Future_Knick]

Haider Ali is missing out because of a hand injury. Supposedly, he was in the T20 squad for NZ but got replaced because of the injury.

 

[gazza619]

US$ 34 approximate fee for a player playing a match for this tournament. What era is this?

nothing wrong. The most important are the five mentors. I suggest to double their salary to Rs. 10 million a month.

 

[Xoib]

Yep. The other issue is with the addition of departments and Champions Cups to the existing regional structure, the cost of staging domestic cricket has surged.

Under Ehsan Mani there was an attempt to create self-financing regional associations - some of them actually got sponsored. Unfortunately Sethi tore it up and reverted to the old failed setup.

Look we have 3 FC tournaments in 2025 alone along with multiple white-ball competitions. We have the worst of all worlds now - quantity over quality and massive financial burden for PCB.

I didn’t like the Mani model I think we needed atleast 8 teams by yes this is horrendous