Second first-class competitors added to Pakistan’s home calendar
The format and construction of Pakistan’s home system will endure one more overhaul, 4 years on from the final one, with a further first-class competitors and departmental sides returning to the home fold.
The departmental groups will, nevertheless, not play the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy alongside the regional groups, as was the case prior to now. Eight departmental groups will as an alternative play a separate event, named the President’s Trophy, after the conclusion of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy. The variety of taking part groups within the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy has been elevated from six to eight. Provincial groups have been finished away with, and cities have made a return to the competitors.
The Quaid-e-Azam Trophy will run from September 10 to October 26, whereas the President’s Cup will begin on December 15 to January 30. An additional ten regional groups will play the second division of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, named the Hanif Mohammad Trophy, which is able to run concurrently with the principle Quaid-e-Azam Trophy.
The eight groups that may play the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy are Peshawar, Karachi Whites, Lahore Blues, Rawalpindi, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Multan, Lahore Whites and Faisalabad.
The departmental groups that may participate within the President’s Cup are Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited, Sui Southern Gas Company, Water and Power Development Authority, Khan Research Laboratories, Pakistan Television, National Bank of Pakistan, and State Bank, with an eighth to be confirmed later. Both the tournaments will comprise a league stage and a last, which the highest two groups will play.
Much of the revamp has not come as a shock.
It was anticipated that the model proposed and pushed through throughout Ehsan Mani’s time as chairman, when Imran Khan was the PCB patron, can be finished away with, and departments would make a return.
But the separation of regional and departmental tournaments means a number of gamers might characteristic for a regional in addition to a departmental aspect. It seemingly additionally implies that with the considerably superior monetary muscle the departments possess, that the President’s Cup will develop into the larger first-class competitors in Pakistan, supplanting the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy.
“This structure provides a level playing field to regions and departments as they will have the best cricket talent available to them,” director of home cricket operations Junaid Zia, who acknowledged the inputs from Misbah-ul-Haq and Mohammad Hafeez of the PCB’s cricket technical committee, mentioned. “The separation of regions and departments in different tournaments also provides enhance earning opportunities for cricketers with separate contracts and more matches.”
The revamp comes throughout a season when Pakistan don’t have any residence Test matches scheduled in any respect, with a three-match sequence in Australia the one Test cricket for Pakistan within the subsequent 12 months.
There was no point out from the PCB in regards to the launch of a schedule or construction for girls’s cricket. ESPNcricinfo was instructed it could be introduced individually.