The latest edition of the National T20 Cup will be played between November 24 and December 10. Here are the full squads of the T20 competition, including the list of teams and injury updates of the National T20 Cup 2023 season.
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18 teams – divided into four groups – will lock horns against each other in 32 group-stage games from November 24 to 28 followed by Super Eight fixtures, semi-finals and the final on December 10.
The 63-day competition will be hosted by four venues across Karachi – UBL Sports Complex, National Bank Stadium, NBP Sports Complex, and HPC Oval Ground.
Double-header fixtures at National Bank Stadium will commence at 3:00 pm and 8:00 pm local time, with the toss conducted at 1430 and 1930, respectively.
The champion team will win a prize of 5 million PKR, while the runners-up will bag 2.5 million PKR. Apart from these bounties, several awards commemorating the best batter, bowler, and wicketkeeper will be given.
Last year, when the competition featured six teams, Sindh defeated Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by eight wickets to claim their maiden title.
The division of groups is as follows:
Group A: Lahore Whites, Peshawar, Karachi Blues, Larkana and Quetta
Group B: Lahore Blues, Karachi Whites, Islamabad, Hyderabad, and Dera Murad Jamali
Group C: Rawalpindi, Abbottabad, Faisalabad and Bahawalpur
Group D: Multan, Sialkot, FATA and AJK
National T20 Cup 2023: Squads and injury updates
Lahore Whites: Ahmed Shehzad, Tayyab, Tahir Ali Zaryab, Muhammad Akhlaq, Saad Khan, Saad Nasim (c) Umar Akmal, Ahmed Bashir, Ahmed Daniyal, Amir Khan, Mohammad Naveed, Muneeb Wasif, Mohammad Irfan, Mohammad Ramiz Jnr, Kamran Afzal
Rawalpindi: Abdul Faseeh, Nasir Nawaz, Rehman Khan, Umar Amin (c), Mubasir Khan, Zeeshan Malik, Umair Masood, Raza ul Mustafa, Sheraz Khan, Mohammad Faizan, Jahandad Khan, Mehran Mumtaz, Umer Khan, Haider Ali, Yasir Khan, Zaman Khan
Karachi Whites: Ziaullah, Ammad Alam, Asad Shafiq (c), Omair Bin Yousuf, Khurram Manzoor,
Danish Aziz, Azam Khan, Mohammad Hasan, Habibullah, Sohail Khan, Ghulam Mudassir, Aftab Ibrahim, Anwar Ali, Mohammad Ashir Qureshi, Arif Yaqoob
Faisalabad: Mohammad Shehzad, Muhammad Irfan Khan, Abdul Samad, Abubakar Khan, Ali Shan,
Taimoor Sultan, Mohammad Faizan, Mohammad Saleem, Waqas Maqsood, Sadaqat Ali, Asad Raza, Arham Nawab, Ahmed Safi Abdullah, Asif Ali (c), Bilal Mehdi
Sialkot: Mohammad Huraira, Bilal Asif, Usman Khalid, Shoaib Malik (c), Ammad Butt, Mirza Tahir Baiq, Salman Khan, Ashir Mehmood, Zaki Shaz Khan, Mohammad Abbas, Sohiabullah Khan, Asad Ali, Hamza Nazar, Shoaib Akhtar
Quetta: Bismillah Khan, Abdul Wahid, Bangalzai Jalat Khan (c), Gohar Faiz, Abdul Hanan, Najeebullah, Syed Zain Ullah, Mohammad Javed, Naveed Ahmed, Salahuddin, Obaidullah, Sanaullah, Faheem Rasheed, Bakhtiar Shah, Bohir Aman
Karachi Blues: Jahanzaib Sultan, Mohammad Taha, Saifullah Bangash (c), Kashif Ali, Hasan Mohsin,
Saqib Khan, Arish Ali Khan, Afnan Khan, Bahadur Ali, Abdur Rehman, Mohammad Asghar, Rumman Raees, Fazal Subhan, Syed Waleed Azeem, Arbaz Khan
Hyderabad: Mohammad Suleman, Salman Khan, Tayyab Ali, Rizwan Mehmood (c), Daniyal Hussain Rajput,
Fardeen Sheikh, Rao Sajid, Akbar Khan, Mustafa Nasir, Asim Jutt, Jawad Ali, Asad Malik ,Majid Asghar, Sher Afzal, Zulfiqar Ali
AJK: Nadeem Khalil, Usman Maroof, Mohammad Haider, Naveed Malik (c), Sayad Hasham Shah, Syed Faraz, Faizan Saleem, Basit Ali, Raja Farhan, Daniyal Allah Ditta, Amir Hamza, Usman Yousaf, Aqib Liaqat, Awias Akram, Mohammad Shehzad
Abbottabad: Sajjad Ali, Afaq Ahmed, Anees Azam, Mohammad Arif, Yasir Shah (c), Khalid Usman, Aitizaz Habib Khan, Mehroz Rasheed, Israr Hussain, Fayaz Khan, Aqib Khan, Ahmed Khan, Adil Naz, Khayyam Khan, Fakhar Zaman, Kamran Ghulam, Arshad Iqbal
Multan: Zain Abbas, Haseebullah, Sharoon Siraj (c), Aamir Yamin, Muhammad Imran, Mohammad Shehzad, Sharjeel Khan, Shoaib Maqsood, Mohammad Sadaqat, Tahir Hussain, Ali Usman, Zeeshan Ashraf, Sirajuddin, Faisal Akram, Ali Majid
Peshawar: Sahibzada Farhan, Adil Amin, Israrullah, Maaz Ahmed Sadaqat, Nabi Gul, Amir Azmat, Imran Khan Snr, Mohammad Imran, Mohammad Ilyas, Mohammad Abbas Afridi, Niaz Khan, Sajid Khan, Usman Tariq, Azam Khan, Mohammad Haris, Iftikhar Ahmed (c)
FATA: Khushdil Shah (c), Usman Khan Shinwari, Salman Khan, Kashif Noor, Azaz Khan, Asif Ali, Mohammad Sarwar Afridi, Mohammad Riaz Khan, Rehan Afridi, Asif Afridi, Maaz Khan, Irfanullah Shah, Akif Javed, Shahid Aziz, Samiullah Jnr
Lahore Blues: Imran Butt, Hussain Talat (c), Umar Siddiq, Rizwan Hussain, Nisar Ahmed, Junaid Ali, Shahwaiz Irfan, Mohammad Waheed, Hunain Shah, Umaid Asif, Asfand Mehran, Kashid Bhatti, Salman Irshad, Qasim Akram, Hashim Ibrahim
Islamabad: Rohail Nazir, Sarmad Bhatti, Ali Imran, Hassan Nawaz, Sudais Ulfat, Musa Khan, Mohammad Arham, Umair Afridi, Mohammad Arsal Sheikh, Mohammad Shayan Sheikh, Mohammad Hammad, Salman Khan, Hammad Siddique, Azan Tariq, Farmanullah Khan, Haris Rauf (c),
Imad Wasim