The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has announced a domestic calendar designed to be more cost effective and to encourage more young players to participate.
The Quaid-e-Azam trophy and the President’s Trophy, the two first-class competitions are scheduled to run at the same time as will the two List A tournaments. There is also a new 11-team departmental Twenty20 cup.
The Quaid-e-Azam trophy will feature 14 regional teams, while the President’s Trophy will have 11 departmental teams playing a round-robin league phase. Both of these first-class competitions are schedule to start on 23 October.
“We believe the season will bring a more prosperous result to our cricket,” Shakeel Sheikh, the head of PCB’s cricket committee, told ESPNcricinfo. “There is a desperate need to unearth the talent from regional nurseries, but for some reason the cycle of getting the quality young cricketers is not working as it should be.
“We want change and want to have more young legs in the field that will eventually replace players at the department level.” he added. “Having all tournaments at the same time prevents departmental players from featuring in regional teams.”
The PCB has scheduled inter-regional Under-19 three-day and one-day tournaments between October 26 to December 13. A ten-day National T20 Cup will be played between 17 teams in late November.
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