Lahore – Pakistan Cricket Board on Tuesday declared central contracts for 12 months for 25 male cricketers for the international cricketing calendar. This is the start from awarding a total of 25 men’s central contracts that will go into effect from 1 July 2024 and parallelly run with the international season in the 2024-25 season.
The list has categorised two players, Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan, as category A, three under B, nine under C and 11 under category D.
The contracts have been offered under the structure that was agreed last year between the players and the PCB for a three-year period.
Considering the comprehensive plan from PCB, in the lines of recompensing, supporting, and motivating the very brilliant and promising people belonging to the cricket domain, here it would not be inappropriate to mention that for the first time in this programme, five talented cricketers are provided with central contracts. Some of the players concerned include Khurram Shahzad, Mohammad Abbas Afridi, Mohammad Ali, Muhammad Irfan Khan, and Usman Khan. According to the report, all of these above players fall into Category D.
This is the list of centrally contracted players.
Category A (2): Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan
Category B (3): Naseem Shah, Shaheen Shah Afridi and Shan Masood
Category C-9: The highly skilled cricketers include Abdullah Shafique, Abrar Ahmed, Haris Rauf, Noman Ali, Saim Ayub, Sajid Khan, Salman Ali Agha, Saud Shakeel, and Shadab Khan. Each one of them has various skills and immense potential that sums up to the total strength and depth of the team.
Category D (11) includes Aamir Jamal, Haseebullah, Kamran Ghulam, Khurram Shahzad, Mir Hamza, Mohammad Abbas Afridi, etc. The list also goes on with the following significant individuals: Mohammad Ali, Mohammad Hurraira, Muhammad Irfan Khan, Mohammad Wasim Jnr, and Usman Khan.
