KARACHI, Oct 8: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Tuesday announced a comprehensive schedule of the forthcoming domestic first-class and one-day tournaments, which begin from Oct 23 with the first-class events.

Eleven departmental outfits will be competing in the President’s Trophy and the one-day President’s Cup, while the 14 regional teams, divided in two groups of seven, will fight it out in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy National Cricket Championship as well as the National One-day Cup.

All four tournaments, which will be played concurrently, will take a break after first three rounds because of Ashura and the 17-team regional National Twenty20 Cup which is slated to be played in Rawalpindi from Nov 20 to 29.

The Quaid Trophy/National One-day Cup regional teams in Group-I are Karachi Blues, Lahore Ravi, Rawalpindi, Abbottabad, Bahawalpur, Peshawar and Sialkot, while Group-II consists of Lahore Shalimar, Karachi Whites, Islamabad Faisalabad, Multan, Hyderabad and Quetta.

While announcing the match schedule, the PCB also released the details of all squads barring those of Peshawar and Abbottabad. The remaining two squads are expected to be named after the completion of selection process.

After the conclusion of the preliminary round fixtures, the top four teams of both pools would compete in two groups of the Super Eight stage from Jan 9 to Jan 24. The group champions of this phase will then meet in the grand final from Jan 27 to 31.

The remaining outfits of the initial stage will participate in the ‘Six Bottom Teams’ event which will also run from Jan 9 to 24 in two groups, with the teams finishing last in each group to be demoted to Grade-II for the 2014-15 season.

Schedule:

President’s Trophy/President’s One-day Cup:

Oct 23-26: National Bank v PIA (Jinnah Stadium, Sialkot); Habib Bank v State Bank (Diamond Club Ground, Islamabad); KRL v PTV (KRL Stadium, Rawalpindi); SNGPL v Port Qasim Authority (Pindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi); ZTBL v Wapda (Marghazar Cricket Ground, Islamabad).

Oct 28: Same two teams to compete at same venue in the one-day event.

Oct 31-Nov 3: Habib Bank v PIA (Marghazar Cricket Ground, Islamabad); KRL v State Bank (KRL Stadium, Rawalpindi); Wapda v United Bank (Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad); Port Qasim Authority v PTV (Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore); ZTBL v SNGPL (National Cricket Ground, Islamabad).

Nov 5: Same two teams to compete at same venue in the one-day event.

Nov 8-11: PIA v PTV (National Cricket Ground, Islamabad); National Bank v State Bank (Jinnah Stadium, Sialkot); Wapda v Port Qasim Authority (Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore); KRL v Habib Bank (KRL Stadium, Rawalpindi); SNGPL v United Bank (Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad).

Nov 13: Same two teams to compete at same venue in the one-day event.

Dec 2-5: PIA v SNGPL (National Cricket Ground, Islamabad); ZTBL v State Bank (KRL Stadium, Rawalpindi); Habib Bank v United Bank (Marghazar Cricket Ground, Islamabad); KRL v Port Qasim Authority (Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore); National Bank v Wapda (Pindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi).

Dec 7: Same two teams to compete at same venue in the one-day event.

Dec 10-13: KRL v PIA (KRL Stadium, Rawalpindi); Wapda v State Bank (National Cricket Ground); National Bank v United Bank (National Cricket Ground, Islamabad); ZTBL v Port Qasim Authority (Jinnah Stadium, Sialkot); SNGPL v PTV (Pindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi).

Dec 15: Same two teams to compete at same venue in the one-day event.

Dec 18-21: National Bank v KRL (Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad); Habib Bank v Port Qasim Authority (Jinnah Stadium, Sialkot); Wapda v PTV (LCCA Ground, Lahore); SNGPL v State Bank (Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore); ZTBL v United Bank (Marghazar Cricket Ground, Islamabad).

Dec 23: Same two teams to compete at same venue in the one-day event.

Dec 26-29: ZTBL v PIA (Pindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi); State Bank v PTV (LCCA Ground, Lahore); National Bank v SNGPL (Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore); KRL v United Bank (Sports Stadium, Sargodha); Habib Bank v Wapda (Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad).

Dec 31: Same two teams to compete at same venue in the one-day event.

Jan 3-6: United Bank v PTV (Diamond Club Ground, Islamabad); KRL v ZTBL (KRL Stadium, Rawalpindi); Habib Bank v SNGPL (Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore); PIA v Wapda (Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad); National Bank v Port Qasim Authority (Jinnah Stadium, Sialkot).

Jan 8: Same two teams to compete at same venue in the one-day event.

Jan 11-14: State Bank v Port Qasim Authority (National Stadium, Karachi); PIA v United Bank (Southend Club, Karachi); KRL v SNGPL (Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad); Habib Bank v PTV (Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore); ZTBL v National Bank (Diamond Club Ground, Islamabad).

Jan 16: Same two teams to compete at same venue in the one-day event.

Jan 19-22: United Bank v State Bank (UBL Sports Complex, Karachi); PIA v Port Qasim Authority (Southend Club, Karachi); Wapda v KRL (Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad); Habib Bank v ZTBL (Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore); National Bank v PTV (Pindi Cricket, Rawalpindi).

Jan 24: Same two teams to compete at same venue in the one-day event.

Jan 27-30: PIA v State Bank (National Stadium, Karachi); Port Qasim Authority v United Bank (Southend Club, Karachi); Wapda v SNGPL (Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad); Habib Bank v National Bank (Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore); ZTBL v PTV (Pindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi).

Feb 1: Same two teams to compete at same venue in the one-day event.

Feb 4: President’s One-day Cup Final (venue to be announced).Feb 7-11: Five-day President’s Trophy Final (venue to be announced).

Squads:

HABIB BANK: Younis Khan (captain), Imran Farhat, Shahid Afridi, Ahmed Shehzad, Shan Masood, Asad Shafiq, Hasan Raza, Aftab Khan, Hafiz Asad Baig, Rameez Aziz, Jamal Anwar, Humayun Farhat, Kamran Hussain, Fahad Masood, Abdur Rehman, Aslam Qureshi, Umar Gul, Ehsan Adil, Sarmad Anwar, Abdul Ameer, Salman Qadir, Murtaza Majeed, Bilal Shafayat.

NATIONAL BANK: Kamran Akmal (captain), Nasir Jamshed, Fawad Alam, Sohaib Maqsood, Aqeel Anjum, Wahab Riaz, Umar Waheed, Raza Hasan, Amin-ur-Rehman, Uzair-ul-Haq, Akbar-ur-Rehman, Adnan Rasool, Usman Qadir, Ataullah, Bilal Munir, Ahmed Jamal, Sami Aslam, Mohammad Nawaz, Zia-ul-Haq, Anwar Hafiz, Qaiser Abbas, Mohammad Zahid, Taimur Khan, Aftab Ahmed.

PIA: Shoaib Malik (captain), Faisal Iqbal (vice-captain), Sarfraz Ahmed, Anwar Ali, Aizaz Cheema, Najaf Shah, Shoaib Khan, Kamran Sajid, Agha Sabir, Shaharyar Ghani, Shahzar Mohammad, Tahir Khan, Anop Ravi, Akhtar Waheed Kiyani, Janisar Khan, Rohail Ali, Mohammad Umar.

SNGPL: Misbah-ul-Haq (captain), Mohammad Hafeez (vice-captain), Taufiq Umar, Umar Akmal, Azhar Ali, Ali Waqas, Naeemuddin, Khurram Shehzad, Azeem Ghumman, Hussain Talat, Adnan Akmal, Mohammad Rizwan, Imran Khalid, Yasir Shah, Samiullah Khan Niazi, Asad Ali, Imran Ali, Bilawal Bhatti, Zahoor Khan, Mohammad Farman, Azhar Shafiq, Saleem Mughal, Yasir Arafat Jr, Abu Bakr, Fahim Ashraf.

ZTBL: Saeed Ajmal, Abdul Razzaq, Imran Nazir, Haris Sohail, Sohail Tanvir, Rao Iftikhar, Yasir Hameed, Mohammad Khalil, Zulqarnain Haider, Sharjeel Khan, Shakeel Ansar, Babar Azam, Atif Ashraf, Zohaib Khan, Imran Khan, Kashif Dawood, Usman Shinwari, Zafar Gohar, Rehan Riaz, Shahid Yousuf.

WAPDA: Riffatullah Mohmand, Saad Nasim, Ali Rafiq, Aamir Sajjad, Fayyaz Khan, Ali Azmat, Mohammad Ayub Dogar, Shiraz Butt, Adnan Raees, Ahmed Said, Kaleem Ahmed, Khalid Usman, Zulfiqar Babar, Ayaz Tasawwar, Rizwan Ahmed, Junaid Khan, Nasir Malik, Mohammad Naeem, Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, Mohammad Mudassar, Sarfraz Ahmed, Mohammad Haseeb, Azhar Attari, Mohammad Mohsin, Saad Zafar.

PORT QASIM AUTHORITY: Khalid Latif (captain), Umar Amin, Khurram Manzoor, Faraz Ali, Shahzaib Hasan, Daniyal Ahsan, Mohammad Waqas Sr, Ali Jawwad, Atif Ali Zaidi, Mohammad Salman, Mohammad Talha, Mohammad Sami, Sohail Khan, Tanvir Ahmed, Ali Dawood, Abdur Rauf, Azam Hussain, Shahzaib Ahmed Khan, Sohaib Khan, Kamran Younis, Tabish Nawab, Hasan Azad, Ariz Kamal, Mohammad Waqas Jr, Mohammad Arsalan.

KRL: Saeed Anwar Jr (captain), Zulfiqar Jan, Yasir Arafat, Ali Khan, Rahat Ali, Yasir Ali, Mohammad Irfan, Zain Abbas, Nayyar Abbas, Shoaib Minhas, Tayyab Riaz, Mohammad Yasin, Naved Yasin, Usman Salahuddin, Hamza Nadeem Abbasi, Sadaf Hussain, Usman Khan, Usama Mir, Inam-ul-Haq.

UNITED BANK: Saeed bin Nasir, Tariq Haroon, Abid Ali, Ali Asad, Saad Surkhail, Khaqan Arsal, Wajihudin, Ahsan Ali, Hamza Haroon Paracha, Ammar Hasan, Kashif Bhatti, Atif Maqbool, Bismillah Khan, Hafiz Mohammad Zohaib, Asif Raza, Mohammad Irshad, Rumman Raees Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Adil Raza, Prince Abbas.

STATE BANK: Kashif Siddique, Rameez Alam, Gulraiz Sadaf, Mohammad Naved, Rizwan Haider, Rameez Raja, Hasan Mahmood, Mohtashim Ali, Saad Altaf, Ansar Javed, Nazar Hussain, Jalat Khan, Usman Saeed, Usman Arshad, Mohammad Saad, Farhan Khan, Farrukh Shehzad, Faisal Yasin, Tabish Khan, Zahid Mahmood, Umair Khan, Raheel Majeed, Mohammad Afzal, Ali Murtaza, Ghulam Mudassar.

PAKISTAN TELEVISION: Imran Ali, Nawaz Ahmed, Haroon Ahmed, Zeeshan Mushtaq, Rana Adnan, Fahad-ul-Haq, Rizwan Ahmed, Akbar Badshah, Zohaib Ahmed, Usman Ashraf, Naeem Anjum, Mohammad Awais, Mohammad Ali Bhutta, Umaid Asif, Yasim Murtaza, Samiullah, Mohammad Sami, Mohammad Usman Khan.

Quaid-i-Azam Trophy National Cricket Championship/National One-day Cup:

Oct 23-26: Karachi Blues v Abbottabad (National Stadium, Karachi); Lahore Ravi v Sialkot (LCCA Ground, Lahore); Bahawalpur v Rawalpindi (Dring Stadium, Bahawalpur); Lahore Shalimar v Karachi Whites (Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore); Hyderabad v Quetta (Niaz Stadium, Hyderabad); Faisalabad v Multan (Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad).

Oct 28: Same two teams to compete at same venue in the one-day event.

Oct 31-Nov 3: Karachi Blues v Bahawalpur (National Stadium, Karachi); Rawalpindi v Abbottabad (Pindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi); Sialkot v Peshawar (Jinnah Stadium, Sialkot); Multan v Quetta (Multan Cricket Stadium, Multan); Islamabad v Karachi Whites (Diamond Club Ground, Islamabad); Lahore Shalimar v Faisalabad (LCCA Ground, Lahore).

Nov 5: Same two teams to compete at same venue in the one-day event.

Nov 8-11: Karachi Blues v Lahore Ravi (National Stadium, Karachi); Abbottabad v Sialkot (Abbottabad Cricket Stadium, Abbottabad); Rawalpindi v Peshawar (Pindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi); Karachi Whites v Quetta (NBP Sports Complex, Karachi); Lahore Shalimar v Multan (LCCA Ground, Lahore); Islamabad v Hyderabad (Diamond Club Ground, Islamabad).

Nov 13: Same two teams to compete at same venue in the one-day event.

Dec 2-5: Lahore Ravi v Bahawalpur (LCCA Ground, Lahore); Sialkot v Rawalpindi (Jinnah Stadium, Sialkot); Peshawar v Abbottabad (Arbab Niaz Stadium, Peshawar); Multan v Hyderabad (Multan Cricket Stadium, Multan); Islamabad v Lahore Shalimar (Diamond Club Ground, Islamabad); Faisalabad v Quetta (Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad).

Dec 7: Same two teams to compete at same venue in the one-day event.

Dec 10-13: Lahore Ravi v Rawalpindi (LCCA Ground, Lahore); Peshawar v Karachi Blues (Arbab Niaz Stadium, Peshawar); Abbottabad v Bahawalpur (Abbottabad Cricket Stadium, Abbottabad); Karachi Whites v Hyderabad (National Stadium, Karachi); Faisalabad v Islamabad (Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad); Lahore Shalimar v Quetta (Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore).

Dec 15: Same two teams to compete at same venue in the one-day event.

Dec 18-21: Rawalpindi v Karachi Blues (Pindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi); Bahawalpur v Sialkot (Dring Stadium, Bahawalpur); Peshawar v Lahore Ravi (Arbab Niaz Stadium, Peshawar); Karachi Whites v Multan (National Stadium, Karachi); Hyderabad v Faisalabad (Niaz Stadium, Hyderabad); Islamabad v Quetta (Diamond Club Ground, Islamabad).

Dec 23: Same two teams to compete at same venue in the one-day event.

Dec 26-29: Sialkot v Karachi Blues (Jinnah Stadium, Sialkot); Bahawalpur v Peshawar (Dring Stadium, Bahawalpur); Abbottabad v Lahore Ravi (Abbottabad Cricket Stadium, Abbottabad); Karachi Whites v Faisalabad (National Stadium, Karachi); Hyderabad v Lahore Shalimar (Niaz Stadium, Hyderabad); Multan v Islamabad (Multan Cricket Stadium, Multan).

Dec 31: Same two teams to compete at same venue in the one-day event.

Jan 3: National One-day Cup first semi-final — Group-I winners v Group-II runners-up (venue to be announced).

Jan 4: National One-day Cup second semi-final — Group-II winners v Group-I runners-up (venue to be announced).

Jan 6: National One-day Cup final (venue to be decided).

Squads:

KARACHI BLUES: Behram Khan, Fakhar Zaman, Naved Khan, Abdul Jabbar Khan, Babar Agha, Ashraf Ali, Zakir Ali, Majid Khan, Owais Ahmed Rehmani, Javed Mansoor, Faizan Khan, Faraz Ahmed Khan, Osama Basharat, Haris Ayaz, Mansoor Ahmed, Rajesh Ramesh, Zohaib Shera, Waqar Anwar, Ali Mudassar, Adeel Malik, Mohammad Ali, Yasir Hussain, Jahangir Shah, Zeeshan Jamil, Hasan Sajjad.

LAHORE RAVI: Junaid Jan, Akhlaq Butt, Ahmed Dar, Kashif Ali, Abdul Wahab Dar, Saad Ali, Adnan Raza, Asif Khan, Jahangir Mirza, Muntizar Mehdi, Tauqir Tanvir, Aleem Yousuf, Mohammad Tanvir, Asif Ashfaq, Bilawal Iqbal, Salman Rahat, Hasan Dar, Adnan Danish, Qaiser Ashraf, Tanzeel Altaf, Ali Manzoor, Qambar Iqbal, Zeeshan Ali, Yousuf Ali, Kamran Khalil.

RAWALPINDI: Babar Naeem, Awais Zia, Zahid Mansoor, Akhtar Ayub, Nasir Malik, Naved Malik, Shoaib Nasir, Shehzad Ahmed, Akhlaq Ahmed, Zarar Ali, Haseeb Azam, Sarab Aslam, Khurram Shahzad, Naved Saeed, Mujahid Amin, Muzammil Nizam, Talha Qureshi, Tayyab Abbas, Sarmad Hameed, Mohammad Muqaddas, Adnan Mahmood, Najam Nisar, Sharam Ali, Ghulam Murtaza, Munir Ansari.

SIALKOT: Hafiz Majid Jahangir, Yasir Aziz, Naved Sarwar, Adnan Zaheer, Zahidullah, Salman Ali, Bilal Hussain, Faisal Khan, Mansoor Amjad, Nasir Iqbal, Zeeshan Sher, Mohammad Saeed, Faisal Rasheed, Waqas Ahmed, Ahmed Fayyaz, Hasan Ali, Mohammad Aamir, Nabeel Malik, Bilal Asif, Israr Ali, Zeeshan Butt, Ahmed Butt, Nadeem Shahbaz, Mohammad Asghar, Adnan Ghaus.

PESHAWAR: To be announced later.

ABBOTTABAD: To be announced later.

BAHAWALPUR: Imran Aslam, Hammad Tariq, Adeel Basit, Hamid Ali, Rehan Rafiq, Faisal Mubashir, Shahan Akram, Mohammad Yasir, Zeeshan-ul-Haq, Zaka-ul-Rasheed, Mohammad Wasim, Mohammad Shafiq, Zahir Siddiqui, Ijaz Akhtar, Mohammad Tanvir, Abdul Rehman, Ali Adnan, Afraseem Hussain, Tauqir Riasat, Jahanzeb Khan, Wasim Mustafa, Ahmed Raza, Mohammad Asghar, Waqas Khan, Rana Safeer Tariq.

KARACHI WHITES: Fazal Subhan, Hamza Ghanchi, Asif Zakir, Sohaib Shakeel, Mohammad Waqas, Daniyal Mansoor, Ahmed Iqbal, Saad Ali, Yasir Mushtaq, Wajid Ali, Amit Ravi, Mohammad Bilal, Babar Rehman, Fahim Ahmed Sr, Junaid Ilyas, Fawad Khan, Shahzaib Ahmed, Faisal Tahir, Mir Hamza, Husban Javed, Khurram Shahzad, Mubashir Ahmed, Faraz Patel, Mohammad Hasan, Nadeem Shad.

LAHORE SHALIMAR: Imran Butt, Umar Siddique, Waqas Saleem, Salman Ali, Arsalan Arshad Bajwa, Raza Ali Dar, Shoaib Akram, Ali Zahid, Waad-ur-Rehman, Agha Salman, Sohail Ahmed, Akif Raja, Mohammad Saeed, Mohammad Bilawal, Waqar Ahmed, Abdul Mateen, Mohammad Rashid, Haris Bashir, Mohammad Irfan, Mustafa Iqbal, Usama Malik, Haider Ali, Kashif Mahmood, Junaid Ali, Ahmed Bilal.

FAISALABAD: Moazzam Hayat, Abdul Mannan, Atif Manzoor, Shahid Siddique, Asif Ali, Hasan Mahmood, Mohammad Shahid, Hamza Zaheer, Imran Ahmed, Raheel Ameer, Asif Hussain, Salman Ali, Zeeshan Asif Butt, Ammar Mahmood, Naseer Akram, Shehroz Raza, Ikramullah, Fahim Ashraf, Waqas Maqsood, Asad Ali, Adnan Munir, Imran Ali, Mohammad Miqdad, Abdul Rauf, Bilal Yousuf.

HYDERABAD: Mir Darya Khan, Taj Wassan, Zeeshan Gul, Shahzad Haider, Haris Khan, Ibar Zeeshan, Faisal Athar, Shoaib Leghari, Ali Ahsan, Mohammad Shahbaz, Lal Kumar, Siraj Ahmed, Farhan Ayub, Mir Ali Talpur, Gul Sher, Shabih Haider, Furqan Azeem, Aslam Sattar, Imran Chandio, Jawwad Ali, Nasir Awais, Rehan Nizamuddin, Adnan Ameer, Mohammad Yasir, Zafar Ali.

ISLAMABAD: Imad Wasim, Nasrullah Khan, Shehzad Azam, Raja M. Kashif Khan, Ali Sarfraz, Faizan Riaz, Moeid Ahmed Sheikh, Hamza Nadeem Abbasi, Zeeshan Ali, Sajid Ali, Kashif Majeed, Asadullah Sumeri, Sarmad Bhatti, Sarwar Khan, Munir-ur-Rehman Tanzeel, Tariq Mahmood, Salman Haider, Mudassar Ali, Junaid Nadir, Mohammad Irfan, Kamran Hussain, Shahid Ilyas, Ahsan Karim, Tariq Mahmood Awan, Wajid Ali.

MULTAN: Kashif Naved, Zeeshan Ashraf, Aamir Yamin, Maqbool Ahmed, Shahbaz Khan, Usman Liaquat, Ahmed Rasheed, Abdul Rasheed Afzal, Aftab Niazi, Abdul Rehman Muzammil, Yasir Butt, Mohammad Waris, Mohammad Imran, Waqar Hussain, Mohammad Rameez, Asif Fawad, Ali Usman, Salman Burki, Ali Zohaib, Najam Abbas, Mohammad Asim, Kumail Abbas, Sadaf Mehdi, Haziq Habibullah, Ahad Raza.

QUETTA: Badar Ali, Taimur Ali, Abid Ali, Hamal Wahab, Arun Lal, Shahbaz Khan, Shahzad Tareen, Barkat Ali, Gohar Faiz, Mohammad Farhan, Mohiuddin, Sher Hasan, Umar Qasim, Ata-ur-Rehman, Mohibullah, Faizullah, Khalil-ur-Rehman, Naseer Khan, Ghulam Ishaq, Mohammad Hayat, Taimur Khan, Abdullah Jan, Fareed Agha, Naushad Irshad, Abdul Rauf.