Pakistan Cricket
Board has released the schedule and squads for the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy 2021-22
season, which begins at three Punjab venues from Wednesday, 20 October.
Former Pakistan captain Azhar Ai, batter, Imran Butt, National
T20 winning captain Iftikhar Ahmed, emerging batter Nauman Ali, veteran batter Fawad
Alam and pacer Mohammad Abbas will lead Balochistan, Central Punjab, Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa, Northern, Sindh and Southern Punjab in the three-month-long
tournament.
Each team will play the other twice in the 10-round group
stage.
The first five rounds will be played at the Gaddafi Stadium
Lahore, Iqbal Stadium Faisalabad and Multan Cricket Stadium, while the last
five rounds and the final will be played in Karachi with UBL Sports Complex,
SBP Sports Complex and NBP Sports Complex staging the round matches.
Karachi’s National Stadium will host the five-day final that
will be played between 25 to 29 December.
Squads
Balochistan
Imran Butt (c), Abdul Wahid Bangalzai, Akbar-ur-Rehman, Amad
Butt, Ayaz Tasawar, Bismillah Khan (wk), Gohar Faiz, Haris Sohail, Imam-ul-Haq,
Junaid Khan, Kashif Bhatti, Raza-ul-Hasan, Taj Wali, Umaid Asif, Yasir Shah
(Subject to Fitness)
Central Punjab
Azhar Ali (c), Abid Ali, Ahmed Bashir, Ahmed Shehzad, Bilal
Asif, Bilawal Iqbal, Ehsan Adil, Faheem Ashraf, Hussain Talat, Junaid Ali (WK),
Mohammad Saad, Muhammad Akhlaq (wk), Saad Nasim, Saif Badar, Waqas Maqsood and
Zafar Gohar.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Iftikhar Ahmed (c), Aamir Khan, Adil Amin, Ashfaq Ahmed,
Asif Afridi, Imran Khan Snr, Israrullah , Khalid Usman, Musadiq Ahmed, Nabi
Gul, Niaz Khan, Rehan Afridi (wk), Sahibzada Farhan, Sajid Khan, Sameen Gul and
Tahir Khan.
Northern
Nauman Ali (c), Aamir Jamal, Aqib Liaqat, Ather Mehmood,
Faizan Riaz, Mohammad Huraira, Mubasir Khan, Munir Riaz, Musa Khan, Nasir
Nawaz, Rohail Nazir (wk), Sarmad Bhatti, Umar Amin, Umar Waheed, Usman Khan
Shinwari and Waqas Ahmed.
Sindh
Fawad Alam (c), Asad Shafiq, Ashiq Ali , Hasan Mohsin ,
Khuzaima Bin Tanvir, Mir Hamza, Mohammad Asghar , Mohammad Hasan (wk), Mohammad
Hasnain , Mohammad Suleman, Mohammad Taha, Saad Khan, Shan Masood, Sharjeel
Khan , Sohail Khan and Tabish Khan.
Southern Punjab
Mohammad Abbas (c), Aamer Yamin, Ali Usman, Azam Khan (wk),
Hassan Khan, Imran Rafiq, Mohammad Ilyas , Mohammad Imran Randhawa, Mohammad
Junaid, Naved Yasin, Tayyab Tahir, Umar Siddiq (wk), Waqar Hussain (wk), Yousaf
Babar, Zain Abbas and Zia-ul-Haq.
Schedule:
20-23 Oct – Balochistan v Sindh, Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad;
Central Punjab v Southern Punjab, Multan Cricket Stadium, Multan; Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa v Northern, Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore
27-30 Oct – Balochistan v Southern Punjab, Multan Cricket
Stadium, Multan; Khyber Pakhtunkhwa v Sindh, Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad; Central
Punjab v Northern, Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore
3-6 Nov – Balochistan v Central Punjab, Gaddafi Stadium,
Lahore; Northern v Sindh, Multan Cricket Stadium; Khyber Pakhtunkhwa v Southern
Punjab, Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad
10-13 Nov – Balochistan v Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gaddafi
Stadium, Lahore; Central Punjab v Sindh, Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad; Northern v
Southern Punjab, Multan Cricket Stadium, Multan
17-20 Nov – Northern v Balochistan, Iqbal Stadium,
Faisalabad; Southern Punjab v Sindh, Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore; Central Punjab v
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Multan Cricket Stadium, Multan
24-27 Nov – Sindh v Balochistan, UBL Sports Complex,
Karachi; Southern Punjab v Central Punjab, SBP Sports Complex, Karachi;
Northern v Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, NBP Sports Complex, Karachi
30Nov 3 Dec – Southern Punjab v Balochistan, UBL Sports
Complex; Sindh v Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, SBP Sports Complex; Northern v Central
Punjab, NBP Sports Complex
6-9 Dec – Central Punjab v Balochistan, NBP Sports Complex;
Sindh v Northern, UBL Sports Complex; Southern Punjab v Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, SBP
Sports Complex
12-15 Dec – Khyber Pakhtunkhwa v Balochistan, UBL Sports
Complex; Sindh v Central Punjab, SBP Sports Complex; Southern Punjab v
Northern, NBP Sports Complex
18-21 Dec – Balochistan v Northern, SBP Sports Complex;
Sindh v Southern Punjab, NBP Sports Complex; Khyber Pakhtunkhwa v Central
Punjab, UBL Sports Complex
25-29 Dec – Final National Stadium Karachi
