Pakistan batter Fakhar Zaman was left out of the PCB's list of centrally contracted players, released on Sunday (October 27), shortly after he was issued a show cause notice for a controversial tweet criticising the decision to drop Babar Azam. PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi explained why. Read here.
On Sunday afternoon, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced their list of centrally contracted players for the 2024-25 season. Five emerging players in Khurram Shahzad, Mohammad Abbas Afridi, Mohammad Ali, Muhammad Irfan Khan and Usman Khan were handed contracts for the first time.
Fakhar Zaman left out of PCB's central contracts list
Shaheen Shah Afridi and Haris Rauf were both downgraded, from category A to B and B to C respectively. Among the players to miss out on a contract entirely was senior batter Fakhar Zaman.
Fakhar was recently embroiled in controversy when he put up a post on X (formerly Twitter), criticising the idea of dropping star batter Babar Azam from Pakistan's Test team, shortly before Babar was indeed left out of the last two home Tests against England earlier this month.
