PCB Announce Central Contracts, Hafeez & Malik Left Out

A day after removing the entire coaching staff, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has announced the new central contracts for players.

The board has retained only three players in Category-A, which include Sarfaraz Ahmed, Babar Azam and Yasir Shah.

Shoaib Malik and Mohammad Hafeez, two of Pakistan’s most experienced players, have been snubbed altogether and have not been offered a central contract, as reported by ProPakistani earlier this week.

Azhar Ali has been demoted to Category-B and Mohammad Amir has been demoted to Category-C.

As informed by PCB earlier, the Category-D and Category-E have been abolished while the total number of central contracts offered to players have been lowered from 33 to 19.

Here are the details of new central contracts:

Category	Player	Previous Category
A	Babar Azam	A
	Sarfaraz Ahmed	A
	Yasir Shah	A
B	Asad Shafiq	B
	Azhar Ali	A
	Haris Sohail	C
	Imam-ul-Haq	C
	Mohammad Abbas	C
	Shadab Khan	B
	Shaheen Shah Afridi	E
	Wahab Riaz	C
C	Abid Ali	–
	Hasan Ali	B
	Fakhar Zaman	B
	Imad Wasim	B
	Mohammad Amir	A
	Mohammad Rizwan	E
	Shan Masood	C
	Usman Shinwari	C