The Pakistan Cricket Board has announced the squads for six Cricket Association for the 2021-22 domestic season. Each squad was selected by the head coach, chairperson, and chief executive of the respective Cricket Association in the presence of national men’s chief selector, Muhammad Wasim, High-Performance Director, Nadeem Khan, Domestic Cricket General Manager, Junaid Zia, and chief executives of the other Cricket Associations as observers.
Each Cricket Association squad comprises 40 players – 32 of which will be awarded domestic contracts, to be announced in due course – along with 10 additional players. Every Cricket Association will name 16 players ahead of the First XI and Second XI tournaments, and these players can be transferred between the two teams.
While the majority of players from the 2020-21 domestic season were retained, the gaps in each of the six sides were plugged with top performers of the City Cricket Association tournaments, after head coaches had a close look at them in the pre-season training camps that were held last week at each of the six Cricket Associations.
The head coaches of the six Cricket Associations, who served as lead selectors of their sides, retained the core players, following which the remaining players were sent to a selection pool from where they were picked by other teams.
Here are the squads:
Balochistan
Central Punjab
Southern Punjab
Sindh
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Northern
