PCB announce squads for Quaid-e-Azam Trophy 2022-23 season

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The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) unveiled the squads and schedule of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy (QEAT) 2022-23.

The 65th edition of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy 2022-23 is set to begin tomorrow (September 27) as the premium First-Class (FC) tournament of domestic cricket.

Defending champions Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) will start their campaign against Balochistan while last edition’s finalists Northern will lock horns with Southern Punjab (SP). Sindh, on the other hand, will face Central Punjab (CP). Each side will meet each other twice in the ten-round group stage.

The final of the red-ball tournament will be played from 26 to 30 November for which the venue is yet to be decided by the board.

Yasir Shah, Azhar Ali, Khalid Usman, Umar Amin, Saud Shakeel, and Hasan Ali have been named captains of Balochistan, Central Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Northern, Sindh, and Southern Punjab respectively.

PCB have decided on the venues for the first five-round matches of the tournament. The first five matches will be held in Abbottabad Cricket Stadium, Faisalabad’s Iqbal Stadium, and Rawalpindi’s Pindi Cricket Stadium respectively.

Whereas, the remaining five-round matches will be played at Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium, Multan Cricket Stadium, Abbottabad Cricket Stadium and Rawalpindi’s stadium.

Quaid-e-Azam Trophy 2022-23 Squads:

Balochistan – Yasir Shah (c), Azeem Ghumman, Haris Sohail, Abdul Wahid Bangalzai, Akif Javed, Ali Waqas, Ammad Butt, Asad Shafiq, Ayyaz Tassawar, Haseebullah, Hussain Talat, Imran Butt, Kashif Bhatti, Khurram Shehzad, Taj Wali

Central Punjab – Azhar Ali (c), Aamir Yameen, Abdullah Shafiq, Abid Ali, Ahmed Daniyal, Ahmed Shahzad, Ali Shan, Hunain Shah, Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Saad, Qasim Akram, Tayyab Tahir, Umaid Asif, Usama Mir, Waqas Maqsood

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – Khalid Usman (c), Ashfaq Ahmed, Adil Amin, Arshad Iqbal, Arshad Ullah, Ihsanullah, Imran Khan Snr, Irfanullah Shah, Kamran Ghulam, Mohammad Sarwar Afridi, Nabi Gul, Rehan Afridi, Sahibzada Farhan, Sajid Khan, Waqar Ahmed

Northern – Umar Amin (c), Abdul Faseh, Ather Mehmood, Faizan Riaz, Kashif Ali, Mehran Mumtaz, Mubasir Khan, Muhammad Huraira, Musa Khan, Nauman Ali, Rohail Nazir, Sarmad Bhatti, Umer Waheed, Waqas Ahmed, Zeeshan Malik

Sindh – Saud Shakeel (c), Abrar Ahmed, Asif Mehmood, Fawad Alam, Ghulam Mudassar, Khurram Manzoor, Mir Hamza, Muhammad Aasghar, Muhammad Umar, Omair Bin Yousuf, Saad Khan, Saim Ayub, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Syed Faraz Ali, Zahid Mahmood

Southern Punjab – Hasan Ali (c), Ahmed Bashir, Ali Usman, Hassan Khan, Imran Rafiq, Maqbool Ahmad, Muhammad Ilyas, Muhammad Imran Randhawa, Salman Ali Agha, Sameen Gull, Sharoon Siraj, Umer Siddique, Usman Salahuddin, Yousaf Baber, Zain Abbas. 

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