KARACHI, Aug 3: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Saturday restored Karachi Greens in the national cricket championship from the forthcoming season.

Lt Gen Tauqir Zia, the PCB chairman, after meeting a KCCA delegation, led by president Munir Hussain and secretary Sirajul Islam Bukhari, approved the inclusion of city’s third team in national tournaments.

Karachi Greens, who are likely to figure in the newly inscribed the non-first-class competition — the Cornelius Trophy — as the 24th team last figured in national tournament two seasons ago.

Karachi’s senior two teams, the Whites and the Blues, play in the prestigious Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Grade-I tournament.

Karachi Whites are current Quaid Trophy champions, having defeated Peshawar in the final here last March under former Pakistan captain Moin Khan.