Monday Jun 05, 2023
LAHORE: With a couple of days left for the expiry of current focal agreements, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is supposed to conclude the new agreements for players after interview with captain Babar Azam and other senior cricketers.
It ought to be noticed that the ebb and flow focal agreements will terminate on June 30, which is the reason the PCB has begun chipping away at new arrangements for the players for the 2023-24 season.
Sources let Geo News know that various changes are normal in the focal agreements with advancement and downgrade for some players.
The PCB is likewise examining whether it ought to keep on granting separate agreements in light of white-ball and red-ball cricket.
Because of retirement, veteran hitter Azhar Ali will be prohibited from the midway contracted players list. In the interim, Fawad Alam, Yasir Shah, Nauman Ali, Khushdil Shah, Usman Qadir and Zahid Mehmood are likewise prone to lose their focal agreements.
Be that as it may, Iftikhar Ahmed, Saim Ayub, Ihsanullah, Usama Mir and Zaman Khan could be drafted into the rundown.
The sources likewise uncovered that pacers Haris Rauf and Naseem Shah could be advanced when the new midway gotten players' rundown is reported.
PCB men's focal agreements list for 2022-23
Red and white ball contracts (5):
Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan, Shaheen Shah Afridi (all Classification A),
Hasan Ali (red-ball Classification B, white-ball Class C)
Imam-ul-Haq (red-ball Class C, white-ball Class B)
Red ball contracts (10):
Classification A — Azhar Ali
Classification B — Fawad Alam
Classification C — Abdullah Shafique, Naseem Shah and Nauman Ali
Classification D — Abid Ali, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Saud Shakeel, Shan Masood and Yasir Shah
White ball contracts (11):
Classification A — Fakhar Zaman and Shadab Khan
Classification B — Haris Rauf
Class C — Mohammad Nawaz
Class D — Asif Ali, Haider Ali, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Wasim Jnr, Shahnawaz Dahani, Usman Qadir and Zahid Mehmood
Arising contracts (7):
Ali Usman (Southern Punjab)
Haseebullah (Balochistan)
Kamran Ghulam (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)
Mohammad Haris (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)
Mohammad Huraira (Northern)
Qasim Akram (Focal Punjab)
Salman Ali Agha (Southern Punjab)
