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KARACHI, June 18: Pakistan’s domestic cricket structure of the forthcoming season has been reshaped and the Patron’s Trophy first-class tournament has been scrapped.
Instead, the one-day tournament will be named as Patron’s Cup in which 16 teams would participate. Although the break-up was not confirmed, there was a possibility that top eight association and as many departments would take part.
The Quaid-i-Azam Trophy will be competed by 25 teams, including the 14 departments, 10 associations and a PCB team.
The season has been restructured in an effort to organize just one first-class tournament.
However, the Cricket Management Committee has yet to finalize the date for the start of the first-class season. The delay has been caused due to uncertainty revolving around Australia’s tour to Pakistan.
But in all probability, the season would begin either in the last week of September or first week of October.
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Tuesday announced the results of examination of umpire after Basic Regional Course (BRC) conducted as per its policy of raising standards of umpiring at all levels, adds APP.
Accordingly 3-day BRC, followed by examination were organized where candidates from adjoining districts also took part.
Candidates passing BRC and possessing intermediate qualification with one year’s umpiring experience will be eligible to take Panel Induction Course/ Examination (PIC) being held between July 7-11 at Gaddafi Stadium Lahore.
Candidates desirous of joining PIC may contact National Umpiring Council Karachi Office immediately.
Names of BRCs-successful candidates is as under:
Peshawar: M. Nawaz, Raweed Khan, Jaffar Hussain, Sohail Zaman, Ahmed Nadeem, Fakhr-e-Alam Khalil, Naser Khan, Muhammad Sohail (Peshawar) Muhammad Arif (DIKhan), Muhammad Arif (Mardan).
Abbotabad: Nasir Jalil, Allah Ditto, Shaukat Gul Jadoon, S. Mohir Ali Shah, Majid Ali Shah, Qamar Farid Khan.
Jhelum Centre: Mushtaq Ahmed, Ghulam Mustafa, Dr. Kamran Aslam.
Hyderabad: Amjad Ali, Arif Majeed Arif, Amjad Imtiaz, Akhtar Ali, Hussain Ali Deenari, Muhammad Tariq Khan, Shameem Ahmed Ansari, Muhammad Rashid Khan, Javed Tasneem.
Kohat; Waseem ud din, Anayatullah Qureshi, Aamir Saeed,
Multane: M. Abdul Qadir, Shakil Ahmad, Muhammad Shafiq, Muhammad Bilal, Nadeem Iqbal, Zulfiqar Ali, Raja Shahid Ahmed, Sagheer Ahmed, Gulzar Ahmed, Muhammad Khurshid, Muhammad Hanif, Rana Zaheer Ahmad, Zia Ullah, Syed Sohail Abbas.
Quetta: Dr. Ahmed Tariq, Muhammad Aslam, Sultan Mehmood.
Muzaffarabad: Farooq Ashraf Awan, Sajad Hussain Shah, Rasheed Ahmed Mughal, M. Riaz Khan, Majid Hussain Awan, Iftikhar Sadiq, Fazal ur Rehman, Hamayun Pervaiz Mirza, Muhammad Atif Shahzad.
