Top Deals for Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan as PCB Announces Central Contracts for 2022-23. The PCB has place Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan, and Shaheen Shah Afridi. Category A of the recently announced white-ball and red-ball contracts.
The Pakistan Cricket Board has placed Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan. Shaheen Shah Afridi in Category A of both the newly announced white-ball and red-ball contracts, the PCB announced on Thursday. The agreement will go into effect on Friday, July 1. The PCB separate red and white ball contracts, and four new players added to the Emerging Category. This means that 33 players have signed contracts for the next 12 months, 13 more than the previous season.
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Pakistan’s all-rounder captain Babar Azam, as well as Hasan Ali, Imam-ul-Haq. Mohammad Rizwan, and Shaheen Shah Afridi, given red and white-ball contracts.
The PCB has increased the number of centrally contracted players from 20 to 33 this year, up from 20 last year. Fakhar Zaman and Shadab Khan were assigne to Category A on the list of exclusive white-ball contracts.
Fawad Alam and Nauman Ali were retained in Categories B and C. Respectively, while Abid Ali, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Shan Masood, and Yasir Shah were given contracts in Category D.
White-ball contracts have awarded to eleven limited-over specialists.
“I want to congratulate all those who have earned central contracts for the 2022-23 season, especially our four younger players who have received red-ball contracts for the first time as part of our vision and strategy to identify, groom, and develop specialists for the traditional and purest format of the game,” said Chief Selector Muhammad Wasim in an official release.
“I understand that there will be some disappointed players who did not receive contracts, but I want to emphasize that we are not limiting ourselves to these 33 players. Players from outside the list to be include as need “He continued.
“We have also expanded our category of emerging cricketers from three to seven because it is critical for us to groom those cricketers who have the potential to make it to the top level and to reward those players who have excelled in our domestic tournaments,” Wasim explained.
Red and white-ball contracts award to five players: Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan, Shaheen Shah Afridi (all Category A), Hasan Ali (red-ball Category B, white-ball Category C), and Imam-ul-Haq (red-ball Category C, white-ball Category B).
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