Lahore: Recently organizing the giant
event ‘Pakistan Super League’ Twenty20 Championship in UAE, the Pakistan
Cricket Board has now publicized on Monday the plan to conduct a Pakistan
Cup Cricket Championship from 19th April to 1st May
in Faisalabad.
A PCB narrator said that Pakistan’s 75 top cricketers will be
taking part in the Pakistan Cup 2016 – the country’s domestic 50-over championship.
The championship will be comprised of teams representing Punjab, Sindh,
Balochistan, KPK, and Federal Capital.
Punjab will be captained by Shoaib
Malik while Atiq uz Zaman and Muatashim Rashid will form the coaching panel for
the big event Pakistan Cup.
T20 captain Sarfaraz Ahmed will be leading Sindh, while
Tauseef Ahmed and Iqbal Imam will be the part of coaching panel.
Balochistan will be led by Pakistan ODI
skipper Azhar Ali while Ijaz Ahmed and Taimoor Azam will join the coaching
panel.
Star Batsman Younis Khan will lead KPK while Abdul Rehman
and Kabir Khan will form the coaching panel for the Pakistan Cup Championship.
Pakistan Test skipper Misbah Ul Haq will lead the Federal
side while Mansoor Rana and Sabih Azhar will form the coaching panel for
Federal Team.
The five captains and the coaches will select the teams through a
player draft scheduled to take place on Tuesday. Approximately 150 players will
be eligible for selection at the draft. And to throw a quality Pakistan Cup
championship, each team will be required to pick one regional under-19
cricketer, the narrator from the PCB added.
The PCB has also publicized that the match fee in this tournament
would be double as compared to a regular domestic ODI match.
The Pakistan Cup will be second ODI format domestic
championship to be organized by PCB this year.
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