Lahore, Pakistan Cricket Board announces the central of the national cricketers of Pakistan cricket team. The players are divided into four categories and these players are placed in different contracts. In the list of A category of the players, the players like Azhar Ali, Misbah ul Haq, Muhammad Hafeez, Younis Khan, Shahid Afridi and Shoaib Malik are included in the A category.
PCB has placed some players in the B category in which the players like Ahmed Shahzad, Junaid Khan, Yasir Shah, Asad Shafique, Saeed Ajmal, Rahat Ali, Sarfaraz Ahmed and Wahab Riaz are also included in this category. C category is formulated for the players like Umar Akmal, Muhammad Rizwan, Shan Masood, Muhammad Imran, Anwar Ali, Muhammad Irfan, Haris Sohail and Fawad Alam are placed in the category.
In the D category, five players are placed and these players are Sohaib Maqsood, Babar Aslam, Sami Aslam, Zulfiqar Babar and Umar Amin. The PCB has also declared that the central contracts of these cricketers were expired in March 2015 and these were also extended till June but the players did not sign these extended contracts due to some observations over them.