Tag: PCB Champions Cup squads

  • PCB announces squad for Champions Cup; Babar included in Stallions

    PCB announces squad for Champions Cup; Babar included in Stallions

    The Pakistan Cricket Board has announced the squad for the ODI Champions Cup, which will include five teams: the Stallions, Wolves, Lions, Dolphins, and Panthers.

    Each team have some contracted players. These are

    Stallions:  Babar Azam, Abrar Ahmed, Mohammad Haris, Shan Masood, Haris Rauf, Tayyab Tahir and Zaman Khan

    Wolves: Fakhar Zaman, Mohammad Rizwan, Naseem Shah, Iftikhar Ahmed, Salman Ali Agha and Shahnawaz Dahani

    Dolphins: Saud Shakeel, Faheem Ashraf and Sarfaraz Ahmed

    Lions: Abdullah Shafique, Aamir Jamal, Imam-ul-Haq and Shaheen Shah Afridi

    Panthers: Saim Ayub, Shadab Khan and Usama Mir

    Muhammad Haris will lead the Stallions, Muhammad Rizwan Wolves, Saud Shakeel Dolphins, Shaheen Shah Afridi Lions and Shadab Khan will lead the Panthers.

    The five team mentors appoint the captains.

    Mentors:

    Misbah-ul-Haq (Wolves), Saqlain Mushtaq (Panthers), Sarfaraz Ahmed (Dolphins), Shoaib Malik (Stallions) and Waqar Younis (Lions).

    Here is the list of all teams.

    1-Stallions

    • Mohammad Haris (Peshawar) (C)
    • Abrar Ahmed (Karachi)
    • Adil Amin (Peshawar)
    • Azam Khan (Peshawar)
    • Babar Azam (Lahore)
    • Haris Rauf (Islamabad)
    • Hussain Talat (Lahore)
    • Jahandad Khan (Rawalpindi)
    • Junaid Ali (Lahore)
    • Maaz Ahmad Sadaqat (Peshawar)
    • Mehran Mumtaz (Rawalpindi)
    • Mohammad Ali (Sialkot)
    • Mohammad Amir Khan (Swat)
    • Saad Khan (Hyderabad)
    • Shamyl Hussain (Islamabad)
    • Shan Masood (Karachi)
    • Tayyab Tahir (Sarai Alangir)
    • Ubaid Shah (Lahore)
    • Yasir Khan (Rawalpindi)
    • Zaman Khan (Mirpur)

    2-Wolves

    • Mohammad Rizwan (Peshawar) (C)
    • Fakhar Zaman (Abbottabad)
    • Abdul Samad (Faisalabad)
    • Akif Javed (FATA)
    • Ali Usman (Multan)
    • Bilawal Bhatti (Muridke)
    • Haseebullah (Pishin)
    • Iftikhar Ahmed (Peshawar)
    • Kamran Ghulam (Peshawar)
    • Mohammad Faizan (Faisalabad)
    • Mohammad Imran Jnr (Peshawar)
    • Mohammad Sarwar Afridi (FATA)
    • Muhammad Imran (Khanewal)
    • Naseem Shah (Lahore)
    • Nisar Ahmed (Lahore)
    • Salman Ali Agha (Lahore)
    • Shahnawaz Dahani (Larkana)
    • Zahid Mehmood (Dadu)
    • Zain Abbas (Multan)

    3-Dolphins

    • Saud Shakeel (Karachi) (C)
    • Aftab Ibrahim (Karachi)
    • Asif Ali (Faisalabad)
    • Awais Ali (Gujranwala)
    • Faheem Ashraf (Kasur)
    • Kashif Ali (Rawalpindi)
    • Mir Hamza (Karachi)
    • Mohammad Huraira (Sialkot)
    • Mohammad Abbas Afridi (Peshawar)
    • Muhammad Akhlaq (Kamoki)
    • Muhammad Ghazi Ghori (Karachi)
    • Muhammad Riazullah (Peshawar)
    • Noman Ali (Hyderabad)
    • Qasim Akram (Lahore)
    • Sameen Gul (Jamrud)
    • Sarfaraz Ahmed (Karachi)
    • Sahibzada Farhan (Peshawar)
    • Sufiyan Moqim (Kotli)
    • Umar Amin (Rawalpindi)
    • Usman Qadir (Lahore)

    4-Lions

    • Shaheen Shah Afridi (Peshawar) (C)
    • Abdullah Shafique (Sialkot)
    • Aamir Jamal (Islamabad)
    • Aamer Yamin (Multan)
    • Faisal Akram (Multan)
    • Hassan Nawaz (Islamabad)
    • Hunain Shah (Lahore)
    • Imam-ul-Haq (Lahore)
    • Imran Butt (Lahore)
    • Khushdil Shah (Bannu)
    • Mohammad Asghar (Karachi)
    • Muhammad Irfan Khan (Mianwali)
    • Mohammad Taha (Karachi)
    • Omair Bin Yousuf (Karachi)
    • Rohail Nazir (Islamabad)
    • Shahab Khan (Mardan)
    • Sharoon Siraj (Sahiwal)
    • Sirajuddin (Bajaur)
    • Waqar Hussain (Okara)

    5-Panthers

    • Shadab Khan (Islamabad) (C)
    • Abdul Wahid Bangalzai (Quetta)
    • Ahmed Bashir (Lahore)
    • Ali Asfand (Faisalabad)
    • Ali Raza (Sheikhupura)
    • Amad Butt (Sialkot)
    • Arafat Minhas (Multan)
    • Azan Awais (Sialkot)
    • Haider Ali (Attock)
    • Mohammad Hasnain (Hyderabad)
    • Mohammad Umar (Karachi)
    • Mohammad Zeeshan (Faisalabad)
    • Mubasir Khan (Rawalpindi)
    • Rehan Afridi (Khyber)
    • Rizwan Mehmood (Hyderabad)
    • Saim Ayub (Karachi)
    • Umar Siddiq (Lahore)
    • Usama Mir (Sialkot)
    • Usman Khan (Karachi)
    • Usman Salahuddin (Lahore)

    The event will start on September 12, and the finals will by played on Spetember 29.

  • 1997: When Tariq Aziz defeated Imran Khan by a margin of over 45,000 votes

    1997: When Tariq Aziz defeated Imran Khan by a margin of over 45,000 votes

    Veteran actor and television host Tariq Aziz passed away in Lahore on Wednesday.

    He was 84 years old and was admitted to a private hospital last night after he fell critically ill. The cause of his death, however, has not yet been ascertained.

    Born in 1936 in British India, Aziz received his early education in Jalandhar (now in India) before starting his career at Radio Pakistan in Lahore. When state-owned Pakistan Television (PTV) started its broadcast in 1964 from Lahore, he became the first male news announcer of the country.

    In 1974, Aziz started the first-of-its-type game show, Neelam Ghar, from PTV. The show went on to register unprecedented heights. It was later rebranded as Tariq Aziz Show in 1996 before finally renamed Bazm-e-Tariq Aziz in 2006.

    Aziz also tried his luck in movies. He starred in Insaniyat (1967) alongside Waheed Murad and Zeba, following which he played a leading role in Haar Gaya Insaan.

    He received the Pride of Performance award in 1992 for his services.

    TARIQ AZIZ VS IMRAN KHAN:

    Unprecedented fame as a radio and television personality was, however, not it for Aziz who also went on to contest general elections in the 90s.

    He was active in student politics during his college days and had joined the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in 1970. In those days, Aziz was called a “firebrand socialist” known for charging up crowds with revolutionary slogans at Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s rallies. However, later he parted his ways and went back to the entertainment world. In 1996, he joined the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and was later elected member of the National Assembly from Lahore.

    Imran Khan, after founding Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in 1996 fielded himself from multiple seats in the 1997 general elections.

    Only from Lahore, Imran contested from NA-94 and NA-95 seats where he suffered defeats at the hands of Tariq Aziz and then PML-N president Nawaz Sharif, respectively.

    He received 4,595 votes against Aziz’s 50,227, paving way for Aziz’s election to the Lower House.

    Aziz was also one of the political activists who were charged with attacking the Supreme Court of Pakistan building in 1997.