The Pakistan Cricket Board today announced transparent 2020-21 contractsfor 192 domestic players, which were based strictly on criteria,performance, and forward-looking approach.
From the 192 players, 10 have been awarded A Plus category comprisingleading performers from the 2019-20 first-class Quaid-e-Azam Trophy andplayers part of the national squad but without a central or emergingcontract.——————————
Misbah-ul-Haq, Pakistan men’s national team head coach and chief selector,who selected players for the A Plus category, said:
I want to congratulate the 10 players for securing the newly-introduced APlus category contracts, which is a reward for their efforts and hard workin the 2019-20 season that either earned them recognition in domesticcricket or places in the Pakistan men’s national team. I accept there willbe a few players who will feel hard done but we could only pick a maximumof 10 players in this category. I want to assure every high-performingplayer that he will remain available for selection in the side anddepending on how he performs in the 2020-21 season, will be in line for anincrement next year.
Criteria
Category A comprises 38 players, including 10 best performers from the2019-20 domestic season or the ones who have previously representedPakistan at the highest level.
Category B includes 47 players who have played T20Is, are amongst the top10 performers of the National T20 Cup (First XI) 2019-20, had a goodfirst-class season in 2019-20, or have represented PakistanShaheens/Emerging since 2019.
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Category C includes 71 players who either featured in PSL 2019 and 2020,were amongst the performers of Quaid-e-Azam Trophy (First and Second XI)2019-20, top 10 performers of the Pakistan Cup 2018-19, best batsman/bowlerof Patron’s Trophy Grade-II 2018-19, or have represented Pakistan inage-group cricket.
Category D boasts all the other 26 players who are part of the six CricketAssociation sides.Categories
A+ Category (10, monthly retainer Rs. 150,000) – Bilal Asif (CentralPunjab), Fahim Ashraf (Central Punjab), Fawad Alam (Sindh), Imran Butt(Balochistan), Imran Khan Snr (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Kashif Bhatti(Balochistan), Khushdil Shah (Southern Punjab), Nauman Ali (Northern),Sohail Khan (Sindh), Zafar Gohar (Central Punjab)
A Category (38, monthly retainer Rs. 85,000) – Adnan Akmal (Balochistan),Ahmed Shehzad (Central Punjab), Amir Yamin (Southern Punjab), Anwar Ali(Sindh), Ashfaq Ahmed (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Asif Ali (Northern), BilawalBhatti (Southern Punjab), Ehsan Adil (Central Punjab), Faizan Riaz(Northern), Hammad Azam (Northern), Hasan Ali (Central Punjab), HussainTalat (Southern Punjab), Imran Farhat (Balochistan), Junaid Khan (KhyberPakhtunkhwa), Kamran Akmal (Central Punjab), Khurram Manzoor (Sindh), MirHamza (Sindh), Mohammad Asghar (Sindh), Mohammad Irfan (SLA) (SouthernPunjab), Mohammad Nawaz (Northern), Mohammad Talha (Balochistan), MusaKhan (Northern), Rahat Ali (Southern Punjab), Raza Hasan (Northern), SaadAli (Sindh), Saad Nasim (Central Punjab), Sajid Khan (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa),Salman Butt (Central Punjab), Sami Aslam (Balochistan), Sharjeel Khan(Sindh), Sohaib Maqsood (Southern Punjab), Sohail Tanvir (Northern), TabishKhan (Sindh), Umar Amin (Northern), Umar Gul (Balochistan), UsmanSalahuddin (Central Punjab), Waqas Ahmed (Northern) and Zeeshan Malik(Northern)
