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PCB approves Rs15b price range for 2022-23

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9 months ago

June 25, 2022

LAHORE: The Board of Governors (BoG) of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Friday accepted Rs15 billion price range for the 12 months 2022-23 with 78 p.c of the funds earmarked for cricket-related actions.

Chairman PCB Ramiz Raja chaired the 69th BoG assembly on the Nationwide Excessive Efficiency Heart (NHPC) Gaddafi Stadium, which accepted an operational activity-based annual price range for fiscal 12 months 2022-23.

The PCB has budgeted a complete spend of rupees 15 billion to cowl enhanced central contracts for males’s and ladies’s cricketers, males’s and ladies’s worldwide and home cricket occasions within the 2022-23 cricket season with further native tournaments and matches, the HBL Pakistan Tremendous League 8 and the inaugural Pakistan Junior League (PJL).

In view of the Asia Cricket Cup (ACC) 50-over Asia Cup 2023 and the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 to be held in Pakistan, the BoG accepted an allocation of funds for the upgradation of the infrastructure and stadia, which incorporates floodlights, replay screens, participant dressing rooms and new spectator chairs.

The BoG, throughout its second assembly of the calendar 12 months, additionally accepted suggestions to introduce education allowance for the PCB decrease employees to help training of their youngsters.

As a part of its technique to incentivise, reward and encourage its high-performing elite cricketers, in addition to to slender the hole in salaries in comparison with gamers of different international locations, the BoG accepted modifications within the males’s central contracts construction with separate crimson and white-ball contracts with elevated retainers; variety of centrally contracted gamers elevated from 20 to 33; introduction of Class “D”, which can comprise gamers who’re staging comebacks or knocking on the doorways of worldwide cricket and 10 per cent enhance in match charges throughout all codecs.

The BoG additionally okayed enhance in match price for non-playing members from 50 per cent to 70 per cent of the general match price

The Board additionally gave its nod to the introduction of captaincy allowance to compensate the crew captain for the extra obligations that include that function

It additionally allotted an quantity for present gamers with the purpose to handle and scale back the workload of elite gamers and to make sure that they’re totally match, prepared and recent each time they play for Pakistan.

The BoG accepted 15 per cent enhance in retainers throughout all classes, with a single contract idea within the central contract for ladies Cricketers. Along with this, the pool of girls’s centrally contracted gamers could also be elevated from 20 gamers to as much as 25 gamers.

The listing for women and men central contracts 2022-23, is but to be introduced by the PCB and it’ll come into impact from July 1, 2022.

The BoG accepted creation of Pakistan Cricket Basis (PCF) as a charitable belief and it is going to be a part of the PCB’s Company Social Accountability (CSR) initiative with an purpose to take care of the welfare and nicely being of its retired cricketers, match officers, scorers and floor employees. The PCB will make the eligibility and qualification standards public sooner or later.

Initially, the BoG has accepted, in precept, an allocation (donation) of PKR 100 million to the Pakistan Cricket Basis over the course of the forthcoming monetary 12 months.

The BoG accepted amendments to the Metropolis Cricket Associations’ territorial jurisdictions in step with geographical demarcations, and in addition accepted affiliation rules to be complied with for future Metropolis Cricket Associations to be recognised. The paperwork can be found on the PCB company web site below Paperwork/PCB Mannequin Constitutions.

As per accepted amendments, Balochistan could have 13 districts, Central Punjab could have 18 districts, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa could have 19 districts, Northern could have 11 districts, Sindh could have 17 districts and Southern Punjab could have 14 districts.

The BoG congratulated the PCB administration for efficiently holding and concluding an uninterrupted first-ever HBL Pakistan Tremendous League 7 at residence earlier this 12 months. The BoG famous and appreciated the 81 per cent enhance in media and sponsorship revenues, as in comparison with the earlier version.

The BoG accepted constructing of further rooms as participant residences in Lahore, Karachi and Multan.

The BoG, in its 69th assembly, hailed 21-year-old leg-spinner Tuba Hassan, who turned the primary Pakistan girls participant to win the ICC’s Ladies’s Participant of the Month (for Might 2022). The BOG was assured that the ladies’s crew will produce sturdy performances within the Birmingham Commonwealth Video games, ICC Ladies’s Championship and ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cups.

The PCB Chairman offered an replace on the Pakistan Junior League (PJL), which can be held in Lahore in October. The BoG was knowledgeable of the eager curiosity amongst the business companions in addition to the ICC Member Boards, who’ve expressed their help by agreeing to launch their gamers.

The BoG expressed its delight with the Chairman’s resolution to extend pensions of former Check cricketers, below the PCB Gamers’ Welfare Coverage.

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Starc haul and Marsh blitz assist Australia hammer India

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15 hours ago

March 19, 2023

Pakistaneo.com

VISAKHAPATNAM, INDIA: Mitchell Starc’s 5-53 and a blazing 66 by Mitchell Marsh helped Australia demolish India by 10 wickets within the second one-day worldwide to stage the sequence at 1-1 on Sunday.

Starc, a left-arm fast, rattled the Indian batting together with his tempo and swing to bundle out the opposition for 117 in 26 overs in Visakhapatnam.

Openers Travis Head (51) and Marsh, who smashed six sixes in his 36-ball blitz, then took aside the Indian bowling to romp residence in 11 overs and stage the three-match sequence with one recreation left.

Australia completed the chase with 39 overs to spare and bounce again from their opening loss.

Starc led the workforce’s deadly assault with the wicket of Shubman Gill for a duck after the vacationers determined to bowl first after in a single day rain.

Two successive strikes from Starc to get returning skipper Rohit Sharma for 13 after which Suryakumar Yadav, out for a second straight first-ball duck, pushed India onto the again foot.

KL Rahul performed out the hat-trick ball however lasted for simply 11 extra deliveries earlier than falling leg earlier than wicket to Starc, who returned figures of 4-31 in his first spell of six overs.

Skipper Steve Smith took a surprising one-handed catch at first slip to dismiss Hardik Pandya for one off the bowling of Sean Abbott, who took three wickets.

Smith went full stretch to his proper and was airborne when he took the catch off an edge from Pandya, setting social media abuzz with reward for his “superman” effort.

Virat Kohli tried to hit again for India with a rating of 31 that included 4 boundaries earlier than he was trapped in entrance by Nathan Ellis.

Wickets stored tumbling and the departure of Ravindra Jadeja, the hero from Friday’s first match in Mumbai, for 16 off the bowling of Ellis added to India’s woes.

Starc wrapped up the innings together with his ninth ODI five-wicket haul. Axar Patel, who got here into the workforce instead of Shardul Thakur, was unbeaten on 29 after hitting two sixes.

The left-handed Head and Marsh got here out firing as they smashed Mohammed Siraj and Mohammed Shami to all components of the bottom.

Head started the assault with two straight boundaries off Siraj and Marsh quickly joined the cost with a string of fours and sixes.

Marsh, who hit 81 in his workforce’s opening loss, hit two straight sixes off Pandya to achieve his fifty off 28 balls.

Head quickly raised his fifty and Marsh hit the successful boundary to take the sequence decider to Chennai on Wednesday.

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Shaheen Afridi named PSL 2023 crew captain

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16 hours ago

March 19, 2023

Pakistaneo.com

LAHORE: Lahore Qalandars’ skipper Shaheen Shah Afridi was appointed as captain of the Crew of Pakistan Tremendous League (PSL) 2023 by an impartial panel headed by technical committee chairman Haroon Rashid. The panel additionally included commentators Bazid Khan, Daren Ganga, Nick Knight and Sana Mir as members.

Whereas choosing the facet, the impartial panel thought of a variety of T20 cricket features, together with consistency, impression on the facet and total recreation, and very best crew mixture in order that this crew can tackle any T20 facet on any given day at any venue in any circumstances.

Afridi impressed Qalandars to complete on prime of the factors desk with seven wins, then helped his facet to bounce again from a Multan Sultans drubbing within the qualifier by overcoming Peshawar Zalmi in Eliminator 2, and, lastly slapped a 15-ball 44 not-out and took 4 for 51 to not solely stroll away with the participant of the ultimate award but additionally guided his facet to their second successive PSL title. That is the fourth successive 12 months Afridi has made it to the unique facet for the reason that PSL groups’ idea which was launched in 2019.

The facet additionally consists of Sultans’ gamers Abbas Afridi and Ihsanullah, who received the Rising and Participant of PSL 8 awards, respectively. Just like the Multan duo, it’s also the primary time for Mohammad Haris and Azam Khan to be chosen for the crew of the match. Total, the facet consists of 5 gamers from shedding finalists Sultans, two gamers every from Qalandars and Zalmi, and one participant every from Islamabad United and Karachi Kings.

Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam have been chosen as openers, with Haris, Rilee Rossouw, Azam and Kieron Pollard forming a formidable center order. Imad Wasim, who has been picked within the Crew of PSL for the primary time, is available in as an all-rounder, adopted by wrist spinner Rashid Khan and three quick bowlers in Afridi, Ihsanullah and Abbas. That is the fourth time in 5 years Babar has been chosen as an opener, although the primary time was along with his accomplice Rizwan, who himself has been chosen within the crew of the match for the third successive time.

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Wasim Akram hopes to see cricket ‘evolve’ in Saudi Arabia

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17 hours ago

March 19, 2023

Pakistaneo.com

ISLAMABAD: Wasim Akram, former Pakistan captain and a legendary pacer, has mentioned that Saudi Arabia may kind its correct cricket workforce because the Kingdom recurrently hosted tournaments, including he needs to see the sport “evolve” within the Gulf nation.

Akram made his first-ever journey to the Saudi capital of Riyadh in February this yr the place he held a gathering with the chairman of the Saudi Arabia Cricket Federation (SACF), Prince Saud bin Mishal, to debate the way forward for the game within the Kingdom.

In an interview with Arab Information, Akram spoke in regards to the rising cricket expertise in Saudi Arabia, saying although he didn’t get an opportunity to witness Saudi cricketers, he wish to go to the Kingdom once more.

“I might like to go and see the expertise, and I’m certain, they will kind a correct cricket workforce, the place they will really beat the affiliate international locations,” the previous pacer mentioned.

“However for that, they have to have home common leagues, and that too, like I mentioned earlier, on turf pitches. That’s crucial for Saudi cricket to evolve.”

Akram’s go to adopted the latest strengthening of cricket ties between the 2 international locations. In January, the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), Najam Sethi, mentioned his nation was ready to share its experience within the sport with Saudi Arabia the place cricket is more and more rising in recognition.

The identical month, Javed Afridi, who owns the Pakistan Tremendous League franchise Peshawar Zalmi, introduced that his workforce was going to play exhibition matches within the Kingdom, Arab Information reported .

“I met with the chairman of the Saudi Arabia Cricket Federation, who’s a really eager and avid fan of cricket,” Akram mentioned.

“And naturally, there are a whole lot of expats: Pakistanis, Australians, Indians, Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans. All of them are there, and so they love one sport, that’s cricket. The [Kingdom] has about 16 districts, and so they do put up common tournaments, [but] I believe what they want is a correct cricket floor and turfs, that’s the place Saudi cricket will evolve.”

Akram added he went to Riyadh for the primary time and was amazed to see town.

“The climate was unbelievable,” he mentioned. “It was chilly really. It was about 11 to 12 levels. And basically, the site visitors was in all places. However other than that, the nation is evolving. It has advanced a lot.”

Since its institution in 2020, the SACF has launched a collection of main initiatives, together with a nationwide cricket championship, a company cricket match, a league for expatriate staff, and social applications in a number of cities.

It oversees 15 official associations representing the game in 9 areas and has introduced plans to arrange extra associations within the remaining areas to make sure that cricket actions are held throughout the Kingdom.