Afridi, Naseem and Zaman demoted in PCB's new central contracts
Cricket
Contracts have been awarded to 25 seasoned and five emerging players
LAHORE (Dunya News) – The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Sunday announced the new central contracts of the players for the international cricket season 2024-25.
The contracts have been awarded to 25 players and for the first time in history five emerging cricketers – Khurram Shahzad, Abbas Afridi, Muhammad Ali, Irfan Khan, and Usman Khan – have been added in the central contract.
The PCB announced the new central contract on social media website X, formerly Twitter. According to the decision, Babar Azam and Muhammad Rizwan have been retained in A category while Shaheen Afridi and Naseem Shah relegated to B category.
Skipper Shan Masood gets B category and Noman Ali has been placed in C category.
According to the PCB, former captain Sarfaraz Ahmed and opener Fakhar Zaman have been dropped.
Abdullah Shafique, Shadab Khan, Ibrar Ahmed, Sajid Khan, Salman Ali Agha, and Saud Shakeel have been added to C category.
In D category, the PCB has named Amir Jamal, Muhammad Waseem Junior, Muhammad Huraira, Meer Hamza, Khurram Shahzad, Muhammad Ali, Irfan Khan Niazi, Haseebullah Khan, Abbas Afridi and Kamran Ghulam.
