Complete list of PCB central contracts for 2024-25 season revealed

Lahore : The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has announced 12-month central contracts for 25 cricketers (men) for 2024-25 international season, effective from 1 July 2024.

These contracts are part of a three-year agreement reached last year between the PCB and the players.

As part of its strategy to incentivize and reward talented and emerging cricketers, the PCB has offered central contracts to five players for the first time. These players—Khurram Shahzad, Mohammad Abbas Afridi, Mohammad Ali, Muhammad Irfan Khan, and Usman Khan—are placed in Category D.

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Here is the list of centrally contracted players:

Category A (2 Players): Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan

Category B (3 Players): Naseem Shah, Shaheen Shah Afridi, and Shan Masood

Category C (9 Players): Abdullah Shafique, Abrar Ahmed, Haris Rauf, Noman Ali, Saim Ayub, Sajid Khan, Salman Ali Agha, Saud Shakeel, and Shadab Khan

Category D (11 Players): Aamir Jamal, Haseebullah, Kamran Ghulam, Khurram Shahzad, Mir Hamza, Mohammad Abbas Afridi, Mohammad Ali, Mohammad Hurraira, Muhammad Irfan Khan, Mohammad Wasim Jr., and Usman Khan.

It is noteworthy that unlike last year’s list of 30 players, this year the PCB has awarded central contracts to only 25 players. Several notable names, including Fakhar Zaman and Sarfaraz Ahmed, are absent from the list. Other players such as Mohammad Nawaz, Iftikhar Ahmed, Imam-ul-Haq, Faheem Ashraf, Hasan Ali, Arshad Iqbal, Ehsanullah, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Tayyab Tahir, Mohammad Haris, Usama Mir, Zaman Khan, and Imad Wasim have also not secured central contracts.

Additionally, Shadab Khan and Haris Rauf, who were in Category B last year, have been demoted to Category C this season.