The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Sunday demoted premier pacer Shaheen Shah Afridi to Class B from Class A, and didn’t provide central contracts to senior gamers Fakhar Zaman, Iftikhar Ahmed and Osama Mir for the 2024-25 season. Take a look at skipper Shan Masood remained in Class B regardless of Pakistan scoring a come-from-behind 2-1 sequence victory over England lately.
The board awarded the central contracts to a complete of 25 gamers simply two wanting the 27 who got contracts final 12 months.
Like final 12 months, the PCB made the contracts announcement after a delay of practically three months because the gamers performances, health ranges and behavior had been analysed.
As a part of the PCB’s technique to incentivise, encourage and reward gifted and rising cricketers, 5 gamers have been supplied central contracts for the primary time.
They’re: Khurram Shahzad, Mohammad Abbas Afridi, Mohammad Ali, Muhammad Irfan Khan and Usman Khan.
They’ve been positioned in Class D.
The board has awarded A class contracts to only two gamers – former captain Babar Azam and Muhammad Rizwan, who will quickly be introduced as Pakistan’s white ball codecs captain.
Record of centrally contracted gamers: Class A (2): Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan Class B (3): Naseem Shah, Shaheen Shah Afridi and Shan Masood Class C (9): Abdullah Shafique, Abrar Ahmed, Haris Rauf, Noman Ali, Saim Ayub, Sajid Khan, Salman Ali Agha, Saud Shakeel and Shadab Khan Class D (11): Aamir Jamal, Haseebullah, Kamran Ghulam, Khurram Shahzad, Mir Hamza, Mohammad Abbas Afridi, Mohammad Ali, Mohammad Hurraira, Muhammad Irfan Khan, Mohammad Wasim Jnr and Usman Khan.
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