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Buttler scores second-fastest England ODI ton as Pakistan fall just 12 runs short of giant target to give hosts 1-0 series lead

The Report by Valkerie Baynes11-May-2019Jos Buttler is on top of the world, and the biggest cricket show on earth hasn’t even started yet.The prelude was a corker though, with Pakistan falling just shy of a giant target of 374 to make England work for their 12-run victory and 1-0 series lead.With a newborn daughter, Buttler showed no signs of sleep deprivation, but rather batted with the unbounded freedom that elite athletes speak of discovering when they return to action after becoming parents – the realisation that there is so much more to life than sport.Buttler has been here before, his 100 off 50 balls en route to an unbeaten 110 off 55 the second-fastest England ODI hundred behind his own record, also achieved against Pakistan in 2015, long before the arrival of little Georgia Rose last month. But while his latest knock was vintage Buttler, it also looked to the future and he cradled his bat like a baby in celebration.Buttler’s remarkable ton capped a strong England batting performance in which all bar one man passed 50. He hit nine sixes and shared an unbroken 162-run partnership with Eoin Morgan, who reached 71 not out off 48, the pair building on a gritty innings from Jason Roy on his return from injury to steer England to 373 for 3.The target required Pakistan’s highest successful run chase and they gave it a good shot on a batting-friendly pitch at the Ageas Bowl, thanks largely to Fakhar Zaman’s cool-headed 138, Pakistan’s highest individual one-day score against England. By the time Fakhar was out, caught behind by Buttler while fishing at a wide one from Chris Woakes but only confirmed on England’s review, Pakistan had reached 227 for 2 off 33 overs.His dismissal swung the momentum back in England’s favour but Pakistan – through Babar Azam and Asif Ali – made it a thrilling contest.Having not played any cricket since April 23 when he suffered back spasms while playing for Surrey in the Royal London Cup, Roy returned at the expense of Hampshire’s James Vince, who sat on the sidelines in an England shirt on the eve of his county’s one-day semi-final against Lancashire at the same ground.Eoin Morgan congratulates Jos Buttler on his eighth ODI hundred•AFP

Roy, who had been battling injury since February’s tour of the Caribbean, resumed the top-order partnership so crucial to England’s recent success with Jonny Bairstow in an encouraging sign for home fans ahead of the World Cup. Bairstow brought up his 50 off 44 and could be forgiven for thinking he was not out on the next delivery from Shaheen Afridi, so understated was the celebration from Fakhar, who juggled the catch at deep backward square but managed to hold on and avoid sliding into the boundary rope.Understandably, Roy took some time to look comfortable, but he blew the cobwebs away with some glorious shots, including a sumptuous six driven straight down the ground off Faheem Ashraf and a second off the same bowler which sailed impossibly high over extra cover before dropping into the stands, much to the surprise of the ducking spectators.There were some scratchy moments but Roy retained more than a hint of his trademark aggression and batted with a palpable determination to re-establish his touch. His frustration over being dismissed as his century beckoned – to an easy catch by Imad Wasim off Hasan Ali for 87 – told just what a mission it had been as Roy thumped his bat on the ground and walked off with his hand covering his eyes. Roy had been 83 not out before a short rain delay and he added just four more runs before his dismissal.Yasir Shah, in the Pakistan side for the ill Mohammad Amir, struggled to find his rhythm but his captain’s perseverance eventually paid off, snaring the wicket of Joe Root after a neat cameo that yielded 40 runs off 54 balls before he was caught sharply by Haris Sohail diving to his left. Yasir was yanked from the attack at the end of the over – his sixth – after conceding 54 runs for his solitary wicket.Morgan and Buttler brought up England’s 300 with plenty of deliveries left to really start swinging, making the last five overs absolute carnage from a Pakistan perspective, yielding 74 runs.The chase started brightly, the tourists reaching 92 before Moeen Ali’s caught-and-bowled accounted for Imam-ul-Haq, whose 35 came in a supporting role to Fakhar, who had already reached his 50 off 39 balls. Fakhar brought up his century off 84 and he continued to frustrate England’s bowlers until his rather anti-climactic dismissal.Babar Azam followed in the next over to a regulation caught-and-bowled by Adil Rashid, who should also have had Haris Sohail caught by David Willey, who dropped the catch running in from long-on. It was Liam Plunkett who accounted for Haris upon returning to the attack in place of Rashid, with Bairstow holding a sitter at deep point.Pakistan needed 98 off the final 10 overs and, with six wickets in hand and the Buttler-Morgan run fest fresh in their minds, Asif and Sarfaraz Ahmed attacked accordingly. Asif raced to a half-century before Willey – who bowled wonderfully at the death after rotating into the side for Jofra Archer – had him caught in the deep by Ben Stokes two balls later to remove a clear danger.Buttler was crucial again taking a high-pressure catch off Willey to dismiss Imad Wasim and Plunkett chimed in with the wicket of Faheem to leave Pakistan needing 19 runs off the last over, bowled by Woakes, who held his nerve, restricting them to just six, including one wide.

With everyone expecting 300-plus scores, India were bundled out for 179 in just 39.2 overs in their first warm-up game against New Zealand

Hemant Brar25-May-2019With everyone expecting 300-plus scores, India were bundled out for 179 in just 39.2 overs in their first warm-up game against New Zealand. Under overcast skies on a surface with plenty of grass cover, Trent Boult thrilled the fans at The Oval to end with 4 for 33. He was well-supported by Jimmy Neesham who strengthened his case for a first-team place with 3 for 26.The New Zealand openers too fell early in the small chase but half-centuries from Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor helped them cruise to victory with six wickets and almost 13 overs to spare. Will the result affect India, one doubts it, but New Zealand definitely had a fruitful outing.Trent Boult and the understated genius of the New Zealand kit•IDI via Getty Images

Kohli had the luck with the coin but India’s top order had no answer to Boult who gave New Zealand a perfect start, striking not once, not twice, but thrice with the new ball.First, he sent Rohit back with a swing bowler’s two-ball trick. Boult pitched his first ball of the match on a length around off stump, Rohit played for the inswing and pushed his bat forward only to get beaten as the ball moved away after landing. The next ball pitched in line with the stumps and nipped back to trap Rohit lbw. The batsman opted for a review but replays confirmed the ball would have clipped the bails.Boult deployed a similar strategy against Shikhar Dhawan, taking a couple of balls away from the left-hand batsman before bringing one back to find a faint inside edge.With Vijay Shankar and Kedar Jadhav nursing little niggles, it was a golden chance for KL Rahul to stake a claim on the No. 4 spot. He had a tough initiation to his innings with Southee and Boult swinging the ball both ways. Southee even got one to beat the bat and hit the batsman on the pads. New Zealand reviewed the not-out lbw decision, but replays showed the ball would have missed the leg stump comfortably.In the next over, Rahul drove Boult through the covers for a boundary. But the seamer pulled his length back the next ball, Rahul tried to dab towards third man only to deflect it on to the stumps. Rahul knew he had burnt his chance, his frustration reflecting in him kicking the ball as it ricocheted off the stumps.KL Rahul drags onto his stumps•Getty Images

With India reduced to 24 for 3, Kohli showed the way to bat in these conditions, standing outside his crease and taking a big stride forward to negate the swing. He not only survived but also hit a couple of crunching drives. However, it looked like he let his guard down against Colin de Grandhomme, and was bowled through the gate while trying to work a length ball from off stump towards midwicket.Hardik Pandya, batting at No. 5, gave the team management some confidence with 30 off 37 balls that he can do more with the bat than just being a finisher. But his innings was cut short by Neesham, who got the batsman out caught-behind. Three balls later, Dinesh Karthik flicked a leg-stump half-volley straight down the throat of Ish Sodhi at fine leg.Dhoni fell shortly afterwards, and soon India were struggling at 115 for 8. Ravindra Jadeja attacked his way to 54 off 50 balls, especially taking on the spinners, as he and Kuldeep Yadav added 62 for the ninth wicket but a brilliant low catch at point by Martin Guptill brought an end to Jadeja’s innings. Boult then returned to wrap up the innings with Kuldeep’s wicket.A target of 180 was never going to challenge New Zealand, and perhaps it was also an opportunity for Colin Munro to get some runs under his belt. He started with a first-ball four but had no reply to swinging yorker from Bumrah and was lbw without adding any further runs. Guptill played some adventurous shots before holing out to Pandya for 22 off 28.That brought New Zealand’s two best batsmen – Williamson and Taylor – in the middle. Williamson had a slow start. He was 3 off 20, and then 23 off 50 as India placed a square-ish gully to cut off his favourite dab to third man.But the New Zealand captain hit his stride after the spinners were brought on. He first square drove a Kuldeep googly before stepping out to loft the bowler over mid-off. Chahal was swept effortlessly over midwicket for a six as Williamson reached his fifty off 69 balls.At the other end, Taylor rode his luck to a fifty of his own. When he was on 3, Yuzvendra Chahal failed to get under a skier, and then Karthik failed to latch on to a faint edge with the batsman on 41. But it didn’t end there. When on 55, Taylor was stranded half-way down the pitch while going for a second run but Pandya missed a run-out opportunity as his wayward throw allowed the batsmen to make his ground safely. He eventually fell for 71 with the scores level but Henry Nicholls completed the formality with a single.

Fast bowler has all the attributes for English conditions, but lessons learnt from previous trips may stand him in good stead

Daniel Brettig18-Jul-2019Watch Jackson Bird bowl in Australia and most swiftly reach a similar conclusion: perfect for England. Tall, accurate and generating bounce and movement both ways, he has long been among the most consistent performers down under, as demonstrated by his recurring presence around the fringes of the Test team in a decidedly strong era for pacemen.Take Bird some 20 hours’ flying time to the other side of the world, however, and his seemingly well-grooved skills have tended to desert him. He struggled for impact in his one Test here, at Durham in 2013, and two county stints in 2015 and 2016 at Hampshire and Nottinghamshire tallied 34 wickets in 11 games at an average near enough to 40, while also giving up more than 3.5 runs per over.Nevertheless, Bird has continued to front up, earning a berth on the Australia A tour and thus a chance at Ashes selection by hoarding 50 wickets at 22.22 for Tasmania in 2018-19, after 37 at 21.81 the previous summer. Ahead of the internal trial match between two Australian sides that will provide the selectors with the final information they need to cut 25 players down to 16, Bird knows he is duelling for, at best, one remaining bowling spot with the likes of Peter Siddle, Chris Tremain and Michael Neser. When he takes the Dukes ball in Southampton, he will do so with the words of no less a Dukes exponent than Stuart Broad in his mind – they are worth recounting for all of Australia’s Ashes aspirants. “I’m probably not trying to swing the ball as much as I used to,” Bird said. “I’ve fallen into the trap over here a couple of times when I’ve come and played county cricket as well, to just focusing on swinging the ball rather than bowling the right length and I think that’s what’s cost me really.”I’ve spoken to a lot of guys that have played cricket over here, in either Ashes or guys I’ve played with, guys like Stuart Broad and stuff like that, and they just say you’ve got to bowl the right length that’s going to hit the top of the stumps or hit the knee roll [on the pad] and if the conditions suit it will swing anyway.”That’s all I’m trying to focus on doing and I think in the spells where I’ve bowled a bit full or been too expensive it is probably for that reason, so the spells that I’ve bowled well in I’ve been hitting the wicket and hitting the top of the stumps – it’s a good blueprint going forward.”The memories Bird has accumulated from numerous England trips should give him a decent chance of squeezing into the Ashes squad, although he was realistic about the fact that while many of the group assembling in Southampton on Thursday were already nailed on, he was very much in the group on the edge of things.”I assume there’s probably only one spot available, if that, for the fast bowlers, so I’m enjoying my time over here,” Bird said. “We’ve got a good bunch of guys that have had a good couple of weeks in this Aussie A stuff and we’re all looking forward to getting down to Hampshire.”I felt pretty good, I think I’ve improved from Arundel last week, so made a couple of good strides over the last week. I probably went for a couple of runs in my first spell but I thought I brought that back nicely and bowled a good spell in the middle of the day and, yeah, was pretty happy with the hit-out.”Anytime you come up against a Lions team, it’s a good hit-out, and this game was no different. There were a couple of guys in their Test squad against Ireland that were playing, so it’s good to bowl to a few of their batters who are on the fringe as well, in case they do get picked in the Test squad and you do play against them, at least you’ve got a bit of experience against them. You can never take that too lightly.”Frustration at Cricket Australia over the quality of county opposition rolled out for warm-up games on previous Ashes tours has manifested itself in the pitting of the two Australian sides against one another in Southampton next week. While the selection of the teams is a mystery, Bird revealed that the groups will be training separately, a likely necessity due to the sheer size of the group otherwise.”We don’t really know what the teams are going to be and how they’re going to pick the teams so that’ll be interesting to see what happens there in the next couple of days,” Bird said. “I think we’ve got a bit of an idea of what’s going to happen, I think were training separately and stuff like that, so we’ll at least try and make this game as competitive as possible.”It’s the only red ball hit-out for a couple of the guys that have been playing in the World Cup. I think those games can drag on a bit if they’re not taken too seriously so hopefully it’s 100% the whole time.”And with all players and staff crammed into the one hotel, that could make for some intriguing dynamics at the breakfast bar, among other places. “It might be a team rule, can’t fraternise with the opposition!” Bird joked. “It’ll be pretty funny I reckon, especially after a couple of weeks on tour, there’s going to be a few blokes who’ll cop it from other blokes I reckon, airing a bit of their grievances over the tour. It’ll be good fun.”

Glamorgan remain winless as Hampshire’s spin twins throttle middle overs for second night in a row

ECB Reporters Network02-Aug-2019Mason Crane and Liam Dawson spun Glamorgan’s middle-order into a stupor as Hampshire made it three Vitality Blast wins in a row.Spin twins Crane and Dawson replicated their middle-over removal service for the second night in a row, having stunned Essex at Chelmsford, to claim figures of 3 for 20 and 3 for 11 respectively.The pair were backed by South African overseas Chris Morris’ 2 for 21 as Hampshire won by 41 runs – leaving Glamorgan winless at the bottom of the South Group.Hampshire set Glamorgan 129 to win after James Vince had won the toss and decided to bat on a sun-kissed evening on the south coast.
A lack of fluency had marred the host’s innings due to a combination of a slow wicket and long boundaries – but the visitors failed to learn from the hosts.Fakhar Zaman couldn’t build on his 58 against Gloucestershire as Chris Wood, whose first two overs went for just two, had his caught at first slip to the third ball of the innings.Colin Ingram was duped by the slow nature of the pitch as he threw his hands at Kyle Abbott, but only struck straight at short cover.Like against Essex the previous night, Hampshire’s twirlers teamed up to throttle their opposition and tear their batting apart after the powerplay.Left-armer Dawson bowled Billy Root, who was attempting to scoop, and Chris Cooke in consecutive overs.At the other end, legspinner Mason Crane tempted David Lloyd into a slog sweep, which was caught on the deep midwicket boundary, before Dan Douthwaite was stumped – leaving Glamorgan 63 for six.Jeremy Lawlor and Merchant de Lange both picked out long-on off Chris Morris and Crane as the rate started to catch up with Glamorgan.
Graham Wagg was yorked and Dawson bowled Lukas Carey – as Hampshire remained in the quarter-final hunt.Earlier, Glamorgan used their inside knowledge of Aneurin Donald’s game, having developed it until he joined Hampshire last winter, to have the Welshman smartly caught on the square leg boundary.It took 22 balls until the first boundary, one of only eight in the innings, when Rilee Rossouw clubbed over midwicket.Next ball he was bowled by de Lange to give the bowler his 100th T20 wicket in his 88th appearance, before Sam Northeast was stumped.Vince followed his explosive 87 against Essex on Thursday with a 21-ball 25 but his frustrations showed with a top-edged hoick to long-on.Morris, James Fuller and Dawson all found various boundary riders but a crucial late cameo from Lewis McManus, which included the sole maximum of the innings took Hampshire to what appeared a below-par 128 for 7. Ultimately, it proved to be more than enough.

Yorkshire collapse on third afternoon as Somerset resume place at Championship summit

Paul Edwards at Taunton12-Sep-2019
If any delivery before the last can decide the outcome of a cricket match, such a ball was bowled a few seconds before lunch at Taunton on the third day of this game. It was delivered by Jamie Overton and pitched on a good length before nipping away sharply from Gary Ballance. Not however, so sharply that it did not catch the edge of the bat and Steve Davies completed the dismissal of Yorkshire’s best batsman. Needing 426 to win, the visitors were 47 for two and rocking like a punch-drunk middleweight.Thus it was really no surprise when, at just on quarter past three, Dom Bess sprinted back from point to take the catch which had been skied off Duanne Olivier’s bat and thereby completed the 298-run victory which will keep Somerset at the top of the table going into the penultimate round of matches. We will not know their exact lead until Essex have completed their business at EdgbastonThe shrewd locals at Taunton had read the signs a couple of hours before their team finished their annihilation of Yorkshire. Permitted to walk on the outfield for the first time in this game during the luncheon interval, Somerset supporters assumed a proprietorial air, perhaps pondering the possibility that in a fortnight’s time the County Ground would also be the home of the County champions. The clouds curtaining distant fields parted and September sunlight scampered across the Blackdown Hills. The Quantocks, roughly quartered as ever and quilted in their early autumn finery, displayed a new abundance. “Bright robes of gold the fields adorn, / The hills with joy are ringing,” wrote the hymnodist, William C Dix. “The valleys stand so thick with corn / That even they are singing.”They weren’t singing in the Colin Atkinson Pavilion this lunchtime; title or no title, Somerset’s mighty carvery deserves serious attention. But they were feeling even happier a couple of overs into the afternoon session when Jonny Tattersall tried to let a ball from Overton pass his bat but only edged a catch to James Hildreth at slip. The bowler’s celebration was a trifle ungainly – there is a lot of young Overton to manoeuvre about the place – but he has had a fine game and had swooped smoothly to catch Adam Lyth off Josh Davey, a dismissal which began Yorkshire’s decline to their fifth-heaviest defeat in terms of runs.In the rest of what became a shortened afternoon session that decline became a headlong plummet, albeit one assisted by a cheerful shove from Davey, whose innings analysis, 5 for 21, and match figures, 8 for 51, were both career bests. He is the eighth Somerset bowler to take five wickets in a championship innings this season; the statisticians think this is the first time this has happened since 1959.Davey stuck to a line just outside the off stump and gained further rewards when Tom Kohler-Cadmore pushed tentatively and nicked a catch to Hildreth. Harry Brook lost his stump to an arm ball from Roelof van der Merwe of which he could scarcely have made more of a horlicks and Tim Bresnan was run out by Bess’s throw from backward point after a mix-up with Kohler-Cadmore.In fairness, Yorkshire were handicapped by the fact that Ben Coad took no part in the last three days of the game and Will Fraine’s knee injury prevented him batting with any freedom at all. But this was Somerset’s day just as it may be Somerset’s season. Injuries do not explain a 298-run thrashing.And there was a fair bit of thrashing going on during the first hour of this morning’s cricket when the home side added 60 runs in 15.2 overs for the loss of their last five wickets. At least one reassuring verity was maintained: Keshav Maharaj took five wickets against Somerset for the fourth time in six innings, thereby becoming Yorkshire’s most successful bowler in championship cricket this season with 38 victims in five matches.However, his successes cost the South African 122 runs, 12 of which came in two reverse sweeps by van der Merwe, and the South African was not the only Yorkshire bowler to be treated roughly on this third morning. Overton hit Steve Patterson for a fine straight six and then an even bigger one over long-on. He thus became the seventh Somerset batsman to clear the ropes in this innings. Arthur Wellard would be proud.There is, of course, every chance that all current and former Somerset cricketers will be proud men in a couple of weeks’ time. They will be joined by many thousands of locals for whom cricket is a part of their life. In his poem “Cricket Days” Clifford Bax recalls village matches and then muses on the extent to which the game comes to count for more than itself; the last two lines has nothing and everything to do with cricket:“We stored a joy that would last forever – like Arab merchants that fill their gourds

With crystal water from some white city and then set forth to the desert sand.”Maybe that’s the point about cricket in Somerset. The club has known fearfully rough times but most spectators have stuck with the team. The supporters have passed through puberty, grown up, graduated, got married, had children and retired – sometimes even in that order. And yet each springtime has seen them making their way down James St. for another season watching boys. They will be taking that same walk on perhaps four autumn mornings in a fortnight’s time, wondering, yet again, if this will be the year when even the combes will be singing.

High-profile captains named for each association’s team; number of first-class players cut to 96

Umar Farooq03-Sep-2019Sarfaraz Ahmed (Sindh), Babar Azam (Central Punjab), Shan Masood (Southern Punjab), Imad Wasim (Northern), Mohammad Rizwan (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) and Haris Sohail (Balochistan) will lead six provinces in a new, streamlined domestic season set to begin next week. The welcome prospect of Pakistan’s elite players taking part in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy – from September 14 – is partially offset by the reduction in the number of players who can call themselves first-class cricketers this season: 96, down from 256 last season.According to the PCB’s new model, each of the six associations will have a pool of approximately 35 players, split in half between first-class and non-first-class categories. In all 192 players will be offered a year-long contract (in each province Pakistan’s centrally contracted national players such as Sarfaraz, Babar, Haris and others, do not get paid the provincial contract fees), with half playing first-class cricket and the other half playing three-day games, which don’t have first-class status, for their association’s Second XI.The old model, which included 16 regional and departmental teams playing first-class cricket, was officially scrapped by the PCB last week.Given that department sides have long employed the country’s best players – because they can afford to pay more – a large majority of the 192 players selected are those who were playing for department sides last year; many of the players who populated the regional sides last year don’t make the cut. Performances from the last three years of first-class cricket, the last two years from List-A cricket, and the last four years of under-19 cricket were taken into consideration before the squads were named.The scale of the change means, inevitably, there will be questions asked of selections across the squads. For instance, Imad has been made captain of Northern despite not being a regular red-ball cricketer. His last first-class game was two years ago and he’s played just five games since the start of 2015.And though the PCB has found a way to accommodate domestic veterans with little hope for Pakistan call-ups – such as Mohammad Sami and Aizaz Cheema – by putting them in as playing mentors of the province’s Second XI side, it has decided that Sohail Tanvir, another white-ball specialist, warrants a place in the Northern side. Tanvir will be 35 in December and has played eight first-class games since 2014.Both squads – the First XI and the Second XI – for each association was finalised by a three-member panel comprising of Misbah-ul-Haq, Rashid Latif and Nadeem Khan. The provisional squads list was put together earlier by the ex-selection committee members – Tauseef Ahmed, Wajahatullah Wasti and Wasim Haider – and the present junior selection committee – Saleem Jaffer, Arshad Khan, Rao Iftikhar, and Taufeeq Umar – alongside the regional coaches.Explaining the thought process behind the selections, Rashid Latif said emphasis was put on youth, and on legspinners since “we have to start searching for the replacements of Yasir Shah and Shadab Khan from today”. “We preferred players in early 20s who have shown improvement,” Latif said. “Those who have got a bit old and have had their performances go downhill were let go, which was a tough decision.”There might be questions on why there are only four local players in the First XI and ten in the Second XI teams from the Balochistan Cricket Association. The purpose behind making the call is to groom these players. At the moment, there are 44% native players in the side. Nadeem Khan, Misbah-ul-Haq and I have recommended the PCB to have 90% local players in the Balochistan sides by developing the game there.”Last year, 69 first-class games were played. Under the new structure, this season there will be 31 first-class games, and 16 T20s and 31 one-dayers. The squad for each of these formats will be selected from within the extended squad. The domestic season starts on September 14, with the first-class teams and Second XIs playing concurrently.The Second XI’s version of the country’s premier first-class tournament, the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, will include 30 three-day group matches, with a four-day final contested at Karachi’s State Bank Stadium from November 26.The squads:

Balochistan Cricket Association

Balochistan squad•PCB

Second XI: Akbar-ur-Rehman (c), Akhtar Shah, Atif Jabbar, Awais Zia, Dawood Khan, Fahad Iqbal, Gohar Faiz, Gulraiz Sadaf (wk), Haseeb Azam, Jalat Khan, Mohammad Junaid, Nazar Hussain, Rameez Raja (from Pishin), Shehzad Tareen, Taimur Ali, Usama Razzaq
White-ball specialists: Akif Javed, Ibtisam Sheikh, Mohammad Talha
Coaching staff: First XI: Altaf Jaffery (manager), Arshad Khan (head coach), Shoaib Khan (assistant coach); Second XI: Raj Hans (manager and head coach), Aslam Sheikh (assistant coach)

Central Punjab Cricket Association

Central Punjab squad•PCB

Second XI: Ali Waqas (c), Abdullah Shafiq, Ahmed Safi Abdullah, Aizaz Cheema (mentor), Ali Zaryab, Asad Raza, Atiq-ur-Rehman, Ayaz Tasawar, Bilawal Iqbal, Farhan Khan (wk), Irfan Niazi, Mohammad Akhlaq, Mohammad Ali (from ZTBL), Raza Ali Dar, Suleman Shafqat, Zahid Mansoor
White-ball specialists: Nasir Nawaz, Nauman Anwar, Usman Qadir (subject to availability)
Coaching staff: First XI: Khalid Niazi (manager), Ijaz Ahmed Jr (head coach), Samiullah Khan Niazi (assistant coach); Second XI: Naveed Anjum (manager and head coach), Akram Raza (assistant coach)

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Cricket Association

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa squad•PCB

Second XI: Khushdil Shah (c), Ahmed Jamal, Akbar Badshah, Arshad Iqbal, Asad Afridi, Asif Afridi, Atizaz Habib Khan, Azizullah (from Peshawar), Gohar Ali (wk), Irfanullah Shah, Khalid Usman, Mehran Ibrahim, Mohammad Mohsin Khan, Mohammad Naeem (from FATA), Sajid Khan, Samiullah Jr
White-ball specialists: Imran Khan Jr, Mohammad Arif, Mohammad Mohsin
Coaching staff: First XI: Farrukh Zaman (manager), Kabir Khan (head coach), Wasim Haider (assistant coach); Second XI: Riffatullah Mohmand (manager and head coach), Sajid Shah (assistant coach)

Northern Cricket Association

Northern squad•PCB

Second XI: Faizan Riaz (c), Ali Imran, Hasan Raza, Jamal Anwar (wk), Naved Malik, Raza Hasan, Salman Irshad, Sarmad Bhatti, Shadab Majeed, Shehzad Azam, Shoaib Ahmed Minhas, Syed Tauseeq Shah, Umair Khan, Umair Masood (wc), Usama Mir, Zeeshan Malik
White-ball specialists: Mohammad Amir, Sohail Akhtar, Zaid Alam
Coaching staff: First XI: Shakeel Ahmed (manager), Muhammad Wasim (head coach), Manzoor Elahi (assistant coach); Second XI: Tahir Mahmood (manager and head coach), Saeed Anwar Jr (assistant coach)

Sindh Cricket Association

Sindh squad•PCB

Second XI: Mohammad Sami (captain and mentor), Rameez Raja Jr (vc), Adeel Malik, Ahsan Ali, Ammad Alam, Ashiq Ali, Ashir Qureshi, Danish Aziz, Ghulam Muddasar, Hassan Khan, Jahid Ali, Mohammad Suleman, Mohammad Waqas, Rumman Raees, Saad Khan, Saifullah Bangash (wk)
White-ball specialists: Abrar Ahmed, Ahsan Jamil Mirza, Shahnawaz Dahani
Coaching staff: First XI: Rashid Khan (manager), Azam Khan (head coach), Umar Rasheed (assistant coach); Second XI: Tauseef Ahmed (manager and head coach), Shaukat Mirza (assistant coach)