Faislabad’s Iqbal stadium is about to host the star-studded Champions One-Pace Cup from September 12 as UMT (College of Control and Generation) Markhors (in the past Wolves) will face off towards the Panthers within the opening fit,
With Misbah-ul-Haq serving as UMT Markhors’ tutor, Mohammad Rizwan will captain them, presen the Panthers shall be led by way of Shadab Khan, with Saqlain Mushtaq as their tutor. The season-opening tournament boasts a complete prize puddle of Rs49 million, with the match winner on September 29 all set to jerk house Rs30 million and the runner-up receiving Rs15 million.
Mohammad Haris’ Allied Storage Stallions on Friday will strike with Shaheen Shah Afridi’s Nurpur Lions, adopted by way of Saturday’s fixture between Saud Shakeel’s Dolphins and Shadab Khan’s Panthers.
All 5 groups were in Faisalabad for the hour 5 days, collaborating in in depth coaching classes to organize for this newly introduced match, which options the most productive of the rustic’s summit cricketers.
The match has been deliberate with an visual on nearest while’s ICC Champions Trophy 2025, with standout performers taking a look to support their probabilities of breaking into the nationwide aspect that can compete in ODIs in Australia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, and a house tri-series towards Unused Zealand and South Africa within the lead-up to the most important ICC Match of 2025.
White-ball head lecturer Gary Kirsten shall be in Faisalabad to watch the 50-over match, which shall be performed on a single-round foundation. After within the pageant, red-ball lecturer Jason Gillespie will even fasten Kirsten in Faisalabad.
On this high-stakes match the place each and every fit counts, the top-four aspects will proceed to the playoffs, culminating within the ultimate on 29 September.
In the meantime, the squads were lowered to 16 upcoming the initial squad of each and every workforce was once introduced.
16-player squads:
Dolphins: Saud Shakeel (captain), Asif Ali, Faheem Ashraf, Mir Hamza, Mohammad Abbas Afridi, Mohammad Huraira, Muhammad Akhlaq, Muhammad Riazullah, Noman Ali, Qasim Akram, Sahibzada Farhan, Sameen Gul, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Sufiyan Moqim, Umar Amin and Usman Qadir
Schoolmaster – Sarfaraz Ahmed
Lions: Shaheen Shah Afridi (captain), Aamer Yamin, Aamir Jamal, Abdullah Shafique, Ahmed Daniyal, Faisal Akram, Imam-ul-Haq, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Asghar, Mohammad Taha, Muhammad Irfan Khan, Omair Bin Yousuf, Rohail Nazir, Sajjad Ali Hashmi, Sharoon Siraj and Sirajuddin
Schoolmaster – Waqar Younis
Markhors: Mohammad Rizwan (captain), Abdul Samad, Akif Javed, Ali Usman, Bismillah Khan, Fakhar Zaman, Haseebullah, Iftikhar Ahmed, Kamran Ghulam, Mohammad Faizan, Mohammad Imran Jnr, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Sarwar Afridi, Muhammad Imran, Naseem Shah, Salman Ali Agha, Shahnawaz Dahani and Zahid Mehmood
Schoolmaster – Misbah ul Haq
Panthers: Shadab Khan (captain), Abdul Wahid Bangalzai, Ahmed Bashir, Amad Butt, Arafat Minhas, Azan Awais, Haider Ali, Mohammad Hasnain, Mohammad Umar, Mohammad Zeeshan, Mubasir Khan, Rizwan Mehmood, Saim Ayub, Umar Siddiq, Usama Mir and Usman Khan
Schoolmaster – Saqlain Mushtaq
Stallions: Mohammad Haris (captain), Abrar Ahmed, Adil Amin, Babar Azam, Haris Rauf, Hussain Talat, Jahandad Khan, Mehran Mumtaz, Mohammad Ali, Mohammad Amir Khan, Saad Khan, Shan Masood, Tayyab Tahir, Ubaid Shah, Yasir Khan and Zaman Khan
Schoolmaster – Shoaib Malik