In the Pakistan Television (PTV) and State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) fixture, the latter were left staring down a defeat as stumps were drawn with the defending champions requiring another two scalps to win, while the runners-up of previous edition needed another 92 runs at the State Bank Stadium

Maaz Sadaqat has won player of the match award on his HBL PSL debut, which included a 102-run stand with Babar Azam, finished runners-up with Peshawar in both the National T20 Cup and Quaid-e-Azam Trophy and faced South Africa’s full-strength attack in a warm-up match before the ICC Champions Trophy in Karachi

Tournament will see 39 matches played across three cities including Faisalabad, Lahore and Multan

Winner of the tournament will bag PKR7.5 million while the runners-up will collect PKR four million  

Wicketkeeper Sarfaraz Ahmed has made a fighting 56 off 62, hitting seven fours. This was the top-score of the innings.

Imran Butt, Azhar Ali, Iftikhar Ahmed, Nauman Ali, Fawad Alam and Mohammad Abbas to captain the six Cricket Association teams in the first-class tournament

Each Cricket Association to field two sides as PCB aims to increase pool of players at the grassroots level, opportunity for the teenagers to stake claims in Pakistan squad for the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup 2022

All-rounder Hussain Talat made a contribution with the bat, ball and in the field to spearhead Home City Central Punjab’s 43-run win over the defending champions Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the eighth fixture of the National T20 played at the Pindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi on Sunday night

Pindi will host the event in the first phase from September 23 to October 3 whereas Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium will host the second phase from October 6 to 12.

The announcement means 10 players in A+ category will now receive a monthly retainer of PKR250,000 each, followed by PKR185,000 each for the 40 cricketers in Category A, PKR175,000 each for 40 players in Category B, PKR165,000 each for the 64 players in Category C and PKR140,000 each for the 37 players in category D.