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Northern remaining four CCA squads for inter-city tournament announced

  • Seven of the 11 squads were announced earlier on 13 June which is available here
  • Squads selected through a merit-based open trial process, which was also filmed and recorded
  • Urdu version of the media release attached here

Lahore, 22 June 2021: Pakistan Cricket Board today announced remaining four of the 11 City Cricket Association sides of the Northern Cricket Association for City Cricket Association Tournament 2021-22, which will be held in that jurisdiction from 5 July to 24 July. Earlier, on 13 June, seven of 11 City Cricket Association sides of Northern were announced.

As such, 55 out of 93 City Cricket Association sides have now been announced with the remaining 38 (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 19 and Central Punjab & Lahore 19) to be unveiled during the week.

The inter-city tournament will be a pathway for selection in the Cricket Association sides for the four-day first-class, non first-class three-day, 50-over and 20-over competitions in the PCB Domestic Season 2021-22, which will commence in September.

According to the event format, each match will be of two days with a minimum of 100 overs to be bowled each day in seven hours and 20 minutes of play with a two-hour break from 1200-1400. To encourage positive and result-oriented cricket, first innings will be limited to 75 overs per side and no bowler shall bowl more than 15 overs in an innings.

The sides have been selected through a merit-based system with open trials conducted by the national selectors or second XI head coaches. All the trials were filmed by the team analysts and were staged in the presence of independent Cricket Association observers.

SQUADS (Open trials conducted by Afaq Raheem, Bilal Ahmed, Fahad Akram, Fahad Masood, Ijaz Ahmed Jnr, Saeed Anwar Jnr and Saleem Jaffar). Captains will be confirmed following the appointments of the team coaches

CCA Bagh: Aamir Nazir, Amjad Ayub Khan, Aqib Javed, Atif Ramzan, Awais Akram, Faisal Said Hussain, Hassan Azmat, M.Aamir, M.Aarish, Mohsin Azmat, Muhammad Iqbal Akram, Muhammad Shahzad, Najam Naseer Kiani, Noman Ajaz, Raja Bilawal Safeer, Saad Khan, Shahid Ilyas, Sheikh Abdul Shakoor, Syed Ahmer Shabbir, Usman Arif 

CCA Kotli: Aliyan Ashraf, Anees Azam, Babar Khaliq, Basit Ali, Danyal Yasin, Ghulam Murtuza, Hammad Shoukat, Hassam Saghir, M.Mujtuba Ghayyas, M.Rab Nawaz Khan, M.Sadiq Javed, M.Waleed Jarar, Muhammad Aamir, Nadeem Ahmed, Naveed Malik, Noman Sadiq, Rohaan Qadri, Sohaib Jamil, Sufyan Moqim, Waqas Farooq 

CCA Poonch: Abdul Basit Habib, Abdul Rehman Bukhari, Absar Ahmed, Ammad Aslam, Anwaiz Hassan, Aqib Liaqat, Ayan Ahmed Khan, Bilal Hafeez, Fahad Arif, Hamad Ul Islam, Hanan Ahmed, Israr Zareen, M.Farhan, M.Jibran, Masood Munsif, Mati Ullah, Muhammad Hassan Ali, Osama Bin Javed, Raja Farhan Khan, Saad Hameed

CCA Muzaffarabad: Abdullah Tahir, Ahsan Kazmi, Azhar Ayub Mughal, Faiz Kazmi, Israr Arif, Javed Khan, Malik Niasr Awan, Mehran Khan, Nadeem Khalil, Naheem Rasheed, Osama Fazil, Qazi Arbqan, Rashid Khan, Rashid Naseer Awan, Sajawal Hussain, Syed Jawwad Gillani, Syed Wajeeh Kazmi, Umair Ali, Usman Yousaf, Zeeshan Khan

Seven sides released on 13 June are:

CCA Attock: Abdul Hanan, Ajab Khan, Badr Ud Din, Eid Muhammad, Gulfaraz, Junaid Arif, M. Arslan, M. Azam Shahzad, M. Hamza Sajid, Malik Aswad, Muhammad Junaid, Nadeem Sikander, Salman Afzal, Salman Khan, Shehryar Iqbal, Shiraz Khan, Syed Sabih Hassan, Syed Tayyab Abbas, Umer Bin Amir, Usama Ali, Usama Shahzad

CCA Chakwal: Aleem Ahmed, Daniyal Abbas, Daood Ahmed Khan, Hussain Nawaz, M Faizan, M Hussain, M Rehan Arif, Methab Hussain, Muhammad Faisal, Noman Khalid, Saeed Ur Rehman, Shah Faiz, Shah Wali, Shahab Ahmed, Shahab Ur Rehman, Taimoor Khan, Tanzail Haider Shah, Tezeeb Haider, Zeeshan Ahmed

CCA Gilgit: Abdul Ghafoor, Abdul Khaliq, Abu Zar Malik, Adil Ijaz, Adnan Hussain, Arshad Alam, Fazal Ur Rehman, Ikram Ul Haq, Inayat Ali, Kamil Alam, M Waleem Khan, M Waseen, M. Ismail Khan, Manzar Ali, Mehmood Elahi, Sajid Raza, Sheraz Shahnawaz, Tahseen Ahmed, Wahid Abbas, Zahid Iqbal, Zahoor Alam 

CCA Islamabad: Adil Khan, Adil Naz, Akif Khan, Aun Abbas, Awais Khan, Azan Tariq, Azeem Bari, Haris Ahmad, Haris Hassan Khan, Hassan Abid Kiani, Irfan, Irfan Khan, M. Arsal Shaikh, M. Asjad Nawaz, M. Hammad Khan, Muhammad Aamir, Muhammad Nadeem, Muhammad Naqash, Munawar Mehmood, Omar Abid Kiyani, Rizwan Ali, Sajawal Riaz, Shoaib Khaliq, Syed Muzammil Shah, Umar Nawaz Khan, Umer Hameed

CCA Jhelum: Abdul Rashid Minhas, Adil Shabbir Mirza, Ahsan Javed, Arslan Qasir, Ehtisham Ashraf, Hamid Ali, Hassan Abbas, Imran Khan, Kashan Haider, M. Ali, M. Faraz Khan, M. Imran, M. Nawazish, M. Nokhaiz Iqbal, M. Shehbaz Tabraiz, Muhammad Ajmal, Rizwan Rafiq, Sarmad Hameed, Shoiab Amir, Sufyan Ikram, Tanvir Abbass Shah, Usman Haider

CCA Mirpur: Amir Hamza, Arslan Arif, Arslan Mahzood, Bilal Hanif, Danyal Allah Dita, Faizan Saleem, Hasnain Shamir, Ikram Hussain, M Hamza Ilyas, Moazam Ayub, Moin Pervaz , Muhammad Hassan, Naqash Basharat, Sardar Hassan Raza, Shadab Majeed, Shahid Ahmed, Usman Maroof, Zakir Ali, Zaman Khan, Zohaib Bhukari

CCA Rawalpindi: Aamir Sohail, Ali Nauman, Awais Iqbal, Hamza Arshad, Haris Sharif, Ibrahim Khan, Ishaq Qazi, Kashif Ali, Mir Waiz, Muhammad Ismail, Muhammad Sheharyar, Muhammad Shoaib Khan, Muzammil Nizam, Naqi Raza, Osama Afridi, Raheel Wakeel, Rahmat Shah, Raza Ul Mustafa, Sajjad Khan, Syed Aqib Shah, Talha Qureshi, Ulfat Hussain Shah, Uzair Wajid, Wahidullah Khan