The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has announced the captains and provisional squads for the highly anticipated Champions One-Day Cup, set to take place in Faisalabad from September 12 to 29.
The tournament will showcase Pakistan’s star cricketers competing in 50-over matches. Five teams will participate: Wolves, Panthers, Dolphins, Stallions, and Waqar Younis XI.
What is Champions One-Day Cup?
The best cricket players in the country will compete in this 50-over competition. Except for the Lions vs Panthers game on September 16, which has an early start time of 9:30 AM, all of the games are slated to start at 3 PM. Three playoff games will crown the event, with the championship game scheduled for Sunday, September 29. On September 12, the highly anticipated encounter between Misbah-ul-Haq’s Wolves and Saqlain Mushtaq’s Panthers will begin the tournament.
Champions One-Day Cup captains
Misbah-ul-Haq (Wolves)
Saqlain Mushtaq (Panthers)
Sarfaraz Ahmed (Dolphins)
Shoaib Malik (Stallions)
Waqar Younis (Lions)
Champions One-Day Cup squads
STALLIONS: Mohammad Haris (captain), Abrar Ahmed, Adil Amin, Azam Khan, Babar Azam, Haris Rauf, Hussain Talat, Jahandad Khan, Junaid Ali, Maaz Ahmad Sadaqat, Mehran Mumtaz, Mohammad Ali, Mohammad Amir Khan, Saad Khan, Shamyl Hussain, Shan Masood, Tayyab Tahir, Ubaid Shah, Yasir Khan and Zaman Khan.
WOLVES: Mohammad Rizwan (captain), Fakhar Zaman, Abdul Samad, Akif Javed, Ali Usman, Bilawal Bhatti, Haseebullah, Iftikhar Ahmed, Kamran Ghulam, Mohammad Faizan, Mohammad Imran Jnr, Mohammad Sarwar Afridi, Muhammad Imran, Naseem Shah, Nisar Ahmed, Salman Ali Agha, Shahnawaz Dahani, Zahid Mehmood and Zain Abbas.
LIONS: Shaheen Shah Afridi (captain), Abdullah Shafique, Aamir Jamal, Aamer Yamin, Faisal Akram, Hassan Nawaz, Hunain Shah, Imam-ul-Haq, Imran Butt, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Asghar, Muhammad Irfan Khan, Mohammad Taha, Omair Bin Yousuf, Rohail Nazir, Shahab Khan, Sharoon Siraj, Sirajuddin and Waqar Hussain.
DOLPHINS: Saud Shakeel (captain), Aftab Ibrahim, Asif Ali, Awais Ali, Faheem Ashraf, Kashif Ali, Mir Hamza, Mohammad Huraira, Mohammad Abbas Afridi, Muhammad Akhlaq, Muhammad Ghazi Ghori, Muhammad Riazullah, Noman Ali, Qasim Akram, Sameen Gul, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Sahibzada Farhan, Sufiyan Moqim, Umar Amin and Usman Qadir.
PANTHERS: Shadab Khan (captain), Abdul Wahid Bangalzai, Ahmed Bashir, Ali Asfand, Ali Raza, Amad Butt, Arafat Minhas, Azan Awais, Haider Ali, Mohammad Hasnain, Mohammad Umar, Mohammad Zeeshan, Mubasir Khan, Rehan Afridi, Rizwan Mehmood, Saim Ayub, Umar Siddiq, Usama Mir, Usman Khan and Usman Salahuddin.
