The PCB has announced the starting date of Pakistan cup and it is 25th April and it is going to be played in Faisalabad.
The domestic cricket is in full swing as the Pakistan cup is going to start from tomorrow, 25th April.
There are going to be 11 matches in between 5 teams Punjab, sindh, and Khyber pakhtunkhawa, Baluchistan and federal areas. 0.matches will be played in this series and the tournament is expected to end on 6th may.
Top cricketers like, kamran akmal, shoaib malik, Ahmed shahzad and Muhammad hafeez are going to show their skills in Faisalabad. Whereas the pacer wahab riaz is not going to play in this tournament as he is set to undergo a nose surgery.
The first and opening match is going to b e played between shahzad led Baluchistan and Punjab tomorrow.
Lineup of the teams from all the areas:
Baluchistan
- Ahmed Shahzad (captain),
- Muhammad Nawaz (vice-captain),
- Rizwan Hussain,
- Rameez Raja Jr,
- Khushdil Shah,
- Akbarur Rehman,
- Faizan Riaz,
- Rohail Nazir,
- Bismillah Khan,
- M Irfan,
- Sohail Tanvir,
- Anwar Ali, Mir Hamza,
- Umar Gul, and,
- Shaheen Shah Afridi.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- M Hafeez (captain),
- Shan Masood (vice-captain),
- Khurram Manzoor,
- Israrullah,
- Umar Akmal,
- Saud Shakeel,
- M Saad,
- M Irfan,
- Adil Amin,
- Hassan Khan,
- Hammad Azam,
- Ziaul Haq,
- Sameen Gul,
- Sadaf Hussain, and,
- M Hasan.
Sindh
- Umar Amin (captain),
- Fawad Alam (vice-captain),
- Salman Butt,
- Gohar Ali,
- Iftikhar Ahmed,
- Danish Aziz,
- Rameez Aziz,
- Adnan Akmal,
- Muhammad Asghar,
- Bilal Asif,
- Aamir Yamin,
- Junaid Khan,
- Sohail Khan,
- Taj Wali, and,
- Muhammad Irfan Sr.
Punjab
- Shoaib Malik (captain),
- Zain Abbas,
- Sahibzada Farhan,
- Abdul Samad,
- Asif Ali,
- Ashfaq Ahmed,
- M Rizwan (vice-captain),
- Sohail Akhtar,
- Osama Mir,
- Kashif Bhatti,
- Imran Khan Sr,
- M Sami,
- Shahid Yousaf, and,
- Abdur Rehman Muzammal.
Federal Areas
- Kamran Akmal (captain),
- Sohaib Maqsood (vice-captain),
- Sarmad Bhatti,
- Abid Ali,
- Awais Zia,
- Ashiq Ali,
- Saad Nasim,
- Hussain Talat,
- Raza Ali Dar,
- Raza Hasan,
- Ammad Butt,
- Salman Ali Agha,
- Waqas Maqsood,
- Usman Shinwari, and,
- Umaid Asif.
The tickets for the tournament could be bought from the designated places in Faisalabad and the price for each league match is set at rs 100 and rs 200.