The opening ceremony will be held at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore and Chairman PCB Mohsin Naqvi will grace the occasion.

The T20Is are scheduled to take place on 1, 3 and 4 September, with the first ball of the match to be bowled at 7:30pm.

Sana Mir, Urooj Mumtaz, Marina Iqbal, Waqar Younis, Alan Wilkins, Bazid Khan, Danny Morrison, Daren Ganga, Mark Butcher, Sikandar Bakht and Simon Doull will be on commentary panel through the course of the exhibition games; while Zainab Abbas and Erin Holland will be the presenters.

Three members of the ICC’s elite panel of umpires – Aleem Dar, Richard Illingworth and Michael Gough – will be accompanied by Ahsan Raza, Asif Yaqoob, Rashid Riaz, Faisal Khan Afridi, Martin Saggers, Ruchira Palliyaguruge, Alex Wharf and Shozab Raza.

The latest reports say that the match will be played between Peshawar Zalmi and Quetta Gladiators on February 5, 2023.

The PCB today confirmed 15-player squads of six Cricket Associations teams for Pakistan Cup – the final tournament of the domestic season 2022-23 and the squads are available here.

Bahawalpur Royals, Gujranwala Giants, Gwadar Sharks, Hyderabad Hunters, Mardan Warriors and Rawalpindi Raiders will compete for the winners’ purse of PKR 10million and the impressive tournament trophy.

Chasing a modest 117-run target, Pakistan bowlers kept Thailand batters in check as Thailand chased down the target on the penultimate ball of the match.

It will be played in a single-league format, with six sides in action, and the top four going through to the playoffs, and a final, on October 21. In all, there will be 19 matches in 16 days, featuring the best local talent as well as overseas players.

Renowned commentators David Gower and Mark Butcher from England, and Pakistan’s cricket legends Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Aamir Sohail, Bazid Khan and Urooj Mumtaz will commentate on the seven games to be played across Karachi and Lahore from 20 September until 2 October.