Cricket

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to defend Pakistan Cup from 2 March

Pakistan Cup – the final tournament of the domestic season 2021-22, will commence from 2 March to 31 March at three venues across the country. On the opening day, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – the defending champions will take on Central Punjab at the Iqbal Stadium in Faisalabad.

The 33-match tournament, to be played on double-league basis, will be staged at Faisalabad’s Iqbal Stadium, Islamabad’s House of Northern and Multan’s Multan Cricket Stadium.

Multan Cricket Stadium will also host the two semi-finals on 28 and 29 January and the final on 31 March.

To provide fans ball-by-ball live domestic cricket action, the PCB will live stream 10 group stage matches scheduled at the Multan Cricket Stadium. The decision to broadcast semi-finals and final at the same venue will be taken in due course.

The tournament carries nearly PKR10million in prize money. The tournament winners will bag PKR5million, while the runners-up will receive PKR2.5million.

The best performers of the tournament – Player of the Tournament, Best Batter, Best Bowler and Best Wicketkeeper – will equally share PKR1million amongst them and PKR800,000 will be handed to 32 player of the match award winners in group matches and semi-finals. The Player of the Final will receive PKR35,000.

Tournament schedule:

Date Teams Venue Umpires Referee
2-Mar Balochistan-Northern House of Northern Islamabad Saqib Khan-Imran Jawed Mohammad Anees
Southern Punjab-Sindh Multan Cricket Stadium Zameer Haider-Ghaffar Kazmi Ali Naqvi
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-Central Punjab Iqbal Stadium Faisalabad Qaiser Waheed-Nasir Hussain Sr. Nadeem Arshad
4-Mar Balochistan-Sindh Iqbal Stadium Faisalabad Qaiser Waheed-Nasir Hussain Sr. Nadeem Arshad
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-Southern Punjab Multan Cricket Stadium Zameer Haider-Ghaffar Kazmi Ali Naqvi
Northern-Central Punjab House of Northern Islamabad Saqib Khan-Imran Jawed Mohammad Anees
6-Mar Balochistan-Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Multan Cricket Stadium Zameer Haider-Ghaffar Kazmi Ali Naqvi
Sindh-Northern House of Northern Islamabad Saqib Khan-Imran Jawed Mohammad Anees
Central Punjab-Southern Punjab Iqbal Stadium Faisalabad Qaiser Waheed-Nasir Hussain Sr. Nadeem Arshad
8-Mar Balochistan-Central Punjab Multan Cricket Stadium Ghaffar Kazmi-Waleed Yaqub Ali Naqvi
Southern Punjab-Northern House of Northern Islamabad Saqib Khan-Imran Jawed Mohammad Anees
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-Sindh Iqbal Stadium Faisalabad Qaiser Waheed-Nasir Hussain Sr. Nadeem Arshad
10-Mar Balochistan-Southern Punjab Iqbal Stadium Faisalabad Qaiser Waheed-Nasir Hussain Sr. Nadeem Arshad
Northern-Khyber Pakhtunkhwa House of Northern Islamabad Saqib Khan-Imran Jawed Iftikhar Ahmed
Central Punjab-Sindh Multan Cricket Stadium Aftab Gillani-Waleed Yaqub Ali Naqvi
Date Teams Venue Umpires Referee
13-Mar Balochistan-Sindh Multan Cricket Stadium Aftab Gillani-Waleed Yaqub Iqbal Sheikh
Central Punjab-Southern Punjab Iqbal Stadium Faisalabad Qaiser Waheed-Saqib Khan Nadeem Arshad
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-Northern House of Northern Islamabad Imtiaz Iqbal-Imran Jawed Iftikhar Ahmed
16-Mar Balochistan-Southern Punjab Multan Cricket Stadium Aftab Gillani-Waleed Yaqub Iqbal Sheikh
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-Sindh House of Northern Islamabad Shozab Raza-Imtiaz Iqbal Iftikhar Ahmed
Northern-Central Punjab Iqbal Stadium Faisalabad Qaiser Waheed-Saqib Khan Nadeem Arshad
19-Mar Balochistan-Central Punjab Iqbal Stadium Faisalabad Zameer Haider-Ghaffar Kazmi Mohammad Anees
Northern-Sindh House of Northern Islamabad Shozab Raza-Imtiaz Iqbal Iftikhar Ahmed
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-Southern Punjab Multan Cricket Stadium Aftab Gillani-Waleed Yaqub Iqbal Sheikh
22-Mar Balochistan-Northern Iqbal Stadium Faisalabad Zameer Haider-Ghaffar Kazmi Mohammad Anees
Southern Punjab-Sindh Multan Cricket Stadium Aftab Gillani-Waleed Yaqub Iqbal Sheikh
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-Central Punjab House of Northern Islamabad Shozab Raza-Imtiaz Iqbal Iftikhar Ahmed
25-Mar Balochistan-Khyber Pakhtunkhwa House of Northern Islamabad Shozab Raza-Imtiaz Iqbal Iftikhar Ahmed
Central Punjab-Sindh Iqbal Stadium Faisalabad Zameer Haider Ghaffar Kazmi Mohammad Anees
Northern-Southern Punjab Multan Cricket Stadium Aftab Gillani-Waleed Yaqub Iqbal Sheikh
SEMI FINALS
28-Mar No. 1 team Vs No. 4 team Multan Cricket Stadium Shozab Raza-Nasir Hussain Sr. Ali Naqvi
29-Mar No. 2 team Vs No. 3 team Multan Cricket Stadium Zameer Haider-Imtiaz Iqbal Iqbal Sheikh
FINAL
31-Mar Winner of 1st SF Vs Winner of 2nd SF Multan Cricket Stadium Zameer Haider-Shozab Raza Ali Naqvi

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