Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to defend Pakistan Cup from 2 March

Lahore, 12 February 2022:

Pakistan Cup – the final tournament of the domestic season 2021-22, will commence from 2 March to 31 March at three venues across the country. On the opening day, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – the defending champions will take on Central Punjab at the Iqbal Stadium in Faisalabad.

The 33-match tournament, to be played on double-league basis, will be staged at Faisalabad’s Iqbal Stadium, Islamabad’s House of Northern and Multan’s Multan Cricket Stadium.

Multan Cricket Stadium will also host the two semi-finals on 28 and 29 January and the final on 31 March.

To provide fans ball-by-ball live domestic cricket action, the PCB will live stream 10 group stage matches scheduled at the Multan Cricket Stadium. The decision to broadcast semi-finals and final at the same venue will be taken in due course.

The tournament carries nearly PKR10million in prize money. The tournament winners will bag PKR5million, while the runners-up will receive PKR2.5million.

The best performers of the tournament – Player of the Tournament, Best Batter, Best Bowler and Best Wicketkeeper – will equally share PKR1million amongst them and PKR800,000 will be handed to 32 player of the match award winners in group matches and semi-finals. The Player of the Final will receive PKR35,000.

Date	Teams	Venue	Umpires	Referee
2-Mar	Balochistan-Northern	House of Northern Islamabad	Saqib Khan-Imran Jawed	Mohammad Anees
	Southern Punjab-Sindh	Multan Cricket Stadium	Zameer Haider-Ghaffar Kazmi	Ali Naqvi
	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-Central Punjab	Iqbal Stadium Faisalabad	Qaiser Waheed-Nasir Hussain Sr.	Nadeem Arshad
4-Mar	Balochistan-Sindh	Iqbal Stadium Faisalabad	Qaiser Waheed-Nasir Hussain Sr.	Nadeem Arshad
	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-Southern Punjab	Multan Cricket Stadium	Zameer Haider-Ghaffar Kazmi	Ali Naqvi
	Northern-Central Punjab	House of Northern Islamabad	Saqib Khan-Imran Jawed	Mohammad Anees
6-Mar	Balochistan-Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	Multan Cricket Stadium	Zameer Haider-Ghaffar Kazmi	Ali Naqvi
	Sindh-Northern	House of Northern Islamabad	Saqib Khan-Imran Jawed	Mohammad Anees
	Central Punjab-Southern Punjab	Iqbal Stadium Faisalabad	Qaiser Waheed-Nasir Hussain Sr.	Nadeem Arshad
8-Mar	Balochistan-Central Punjab	Multan Cricket Stadium	Ghaffar Kazmi-Waleed Yaqub	Ali Naqvi
	Southern Punjab-Northern	House of Northern Islamabad	Saqib Khan-Imran Jawed	Mohammad Anees
	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-Sindh	Iqbal Stadium Faisalabad	Qaiser Waheed-Nasir Hussain Sr.	Nadeem Arshad
10-Mar	Balochistan-Southern Punjab	Iqbal Stadium Faisalabad	Qaiser Waheed-Nasir Hussain Sr.	Nadeem Arshad
	Northern-Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	House of Northern Islamabad	Saqib Khan-Imran Jawed	Iftikhar Ahmed
	Central Punjab-Sindh	Multan Cricket Stadium	Aftab Gillani-Waleed Yaqub	Ali Naqvi
Date	Teams	Venue	Umpires	Referee
13-Mar	Balochistan-Sindh	Multan Cricket Stadium	Aftab Gillani-Waleed Yaqub	Iqbal Sheikh
	Central Punjab-Southern Punjab	Iqbal Stadium Faisalabad	Qaiser Waheed-Saqib Khan	Nadeem Arshad
	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-Northern	House of Northern Islamabad	Imtiaz Iqbal-Imran Jawed	Iftikhar Ahmed
16-Mar	Balochistan-Southern Punjab	Multan Cricket Stadium	Aftab Gillani-Waleed Yaqub	Iqbal Sheikh
	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-Sindh	House of Northern Islamabad	Shozab Raza-Imtiaz Iqbal	Iftikhar Ahmed
	Northern-Central Punjab	Iqbal Stadium Faisalabad	Qaiser Waheed-Saqib Khan	Nadeem Arshad
19-Mar	Balochistan-Central Punjab	Iqbal Stadium Faisalabad	Zameer Haider-Ghaffar Kazmi	Mohammad Anees
	Northern-Sindh	House of Northern Islamabad	Shozab Raza-Imtiaz Iqbal	Iftikhar Ahmed
	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-Southern Punjab	Multan Cricket Stadium	Aftab Gillani-Waleed Yaqub	Iqbal Sheikh
22-Mar	Balochistan-Northern	Iqbal Stadium Faisalabad	Zameer Haider-Ghaffar Kazmi	Mohammad Anees
	Southern Punjab-Sindh	Multan Cricket Stadium	Aftab Gillani-Waleed Yaqub	Iqbal Sheikh
	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-Central Punjab	House of Northern Islamabad	Shozab Raza-Imtiaz Iqbal	Iftikhar Ahmed
25-Mar	Balochistan-Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	House of Northern Islamabad	Shozab Raza-Imtiaz Iqbal	Iftikhar Ahmed
	Central Punjab-Sindh	Iqbal Stadium Faisalabad	Zameer Haider Ghaffar Kazmi	Mohammad Anees
	Northern-Southern Punjab	Multan Cricket Stadium	Aftab Gillani-Waleed Yaqub	Iqbal Sheikh
		SEMI FINALS
28-Mar	No. 1 team Vs No. 4 team	Multan Cricket Stadium	Shozab Raza-Nasir Hussain Sr.	Ali Naqvi
29-Mar	No. 2 team Vs No. 3 team	Multan Cricket Stadium	Zameer Haider-Imtiaz Iqbal	Iqbal Sheikh
		FINAL
31-Mar	Winner of 1st SF Vs Winner of 2nd SF	Multan Cricket Stadium	Zameer Haider-Shozab Raza	Ali Naqvi