The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has released the schedule for the upcoming President’s Cup Grade-I One-Day Cup, with the new season set to begin on Monday, 8 December, across four venues in Karachi.
Defending champions State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) will return to protect their title as eight departmental teams compete in the 50-over competition.
A total of 31 matches will be played in a single round-robin league, with four fixtures scheduled in each of the seven rounds. The competition will culminate in semi-finals on 22 and 23 December, followed by the final on 25 December.
All matches will be streamed live; viewers in Pakistan can watch on Tapmad, while international fans can tune in via the PCB’s YouTube channel. League games will be held during the day, with the toss at 9:00 AM and the first ball at 9:30 AM.
The first round will see:
| Ghani Glass vs PTV | HPC Oval Ground |
| WAPDA vs SNGPL | KCCA Stadium |
| KRL vs Sahir Associates | Naya Nazimabad Stadium |
| SBP vs OGDCL | UBL Sports Complex |
Venues for the semi-finals and final will be announced later.
Teams will compete for a Rs. 5 million winner’s purse, while the runners-up will take home Rs. 2.5 million.
Individual awards include:
| Ghani Glass | Moeez Ghani |
| KRL | Iftikhar Ahmed |
| OGDCL | Adil Amin |
| PTV | Ammad Butt |
| Sahir Associates | Asim Ali Nasir |
| SNGPL | Shan Masood |
| SBP | Imran Butt |
| WAPDA | Khalid Usman |
Sahir Associates enter Grade-I after earning promotion by winning the Grade-II President’s Trophy earlier this year.
| Moeez Ghani (c) | Abdul Rafay | Afaq Afridi | Ali Razzaq | Ali Shabbir |
| Hammad Butt | Haseeb-ur-Rehman | Hussain Talat | Kashif Ali | Khawaja Mohammad Arham |
| Khurram Shahzad | Mir Hamza | Mohammad Rameez Jnr | Mohsin Riaz | Muhammad Umair |
| Noman Ali | Saad Nasim | Saaed Ali | Sameen Gul | Shadab Khan |
| Shahbaz Javed (wk) | Sharjeel Khan | Shawaiz Irfan | Shoaib Akhtar | Tayyab Tahir |
| Ubaid Shah | Yahya bin Abdul Rehman | Zafar Gohar | — | — |
| Iftikhar Ahmed (c) | Abdul Faseeh | Ahmad Bashir | Ahmed Hassan | Aqib Liaqat |
| Arshad Iqbal | Hamza Nazar | Iftikhar Ahmed | Muhammad Amir Barki | Muhammad Hamza |
| Muhammad Shayan Sheikh | Muhammad Usman | Mohammad Qaisar | Saad Baig | Saqib |
| Sarmad Bhatti | Shahzaib Khan | Syed Aqib Shah | Syed Junaid Ali | Waqar Ahmed |
| Adil Amin (c) | Abbas Ali | Abdul Rehman Muzammil | Alai Imran | Arshadullah |
| Asif Afridi | Danish Aziz | Haroon Arshad | Imam-ul-Haq | Israrullah |
| Jawad Ali | Khayyam Khan | Maaz Sadaqat | Mohammad Amir Khan | Mohammad Sarwar Afridi |
| Muhammad Abuzar | Muhammad Arsal Sheikh | Muhammad Huzaifa | Muhammad Imran | Muhammad Umair |
| Muhammad Umar | Mushtaq Ahmed | Raja Hamza Waheed | Sameer Saqib | Umar Siddiq (wk) |
| Ammad Butt (c) | Ali Usman | Faisal Akram | Hasnain Khan | Irfan Khan |
| Israr Hussain | Jahandad Khan | Mohammad Ilyas Khan | Mohammad Mohsin | Mohammad Suleman |
| Mohammad Taha | Mehran Sanwal | Musa Khan | Muhammad Meesam | Obaid Shahid |
| Shamyl Hussain | Taimur Khan (wk) | Usman Salahuddin | Waqar Hussain | Yasir Khan |
| Zahid Mehmood | — | — | — | — |
| Asim Ali Nasir (c & wk) | Abdullah | Ahmed Khan | Ahmer Ashfaq | Asfand Mehran |
| Attaullah | Fahad Usman | Hafiz Muhammad Suleman | Intasar Ali | Khan Zeb |
| Khawaja Muhammad Abdullah | Mohsin Khan | Muhammad Afaq | Muhammad Afzal | Muhammad Azeem Dar |
| Muhammad Basit | Muhammad Bilawal | Muhammad Zahid Khan Mehmand | Muhammad Kashif | Rawayat Khan |
| Razaullah | Saad Din Muhammad Athar | Saleem | Shahid Ali | Syed Ameer Abdullah Hamdani |
| Usman Khan | — | — | — | — |
| Shan Masood (c) | Aamer Jamal | Abdul Samad | Abdul Subhan | Abid Ali |
| Ali Zaryab | Athar Mehmood | Azan Awais | Bilawal Bhatti | Haseebullah |
| Kamran Ghulam | Mubasir Khan | Muhammad Awais Zafar | Muhammad Irfan | Mohammad Ali |
| Mohammad Azab | Mohammad Rizwan | Mohammad Salman | Mohammad Shahzad | Omair bin Yousuf |
| Saad Khan | Saifullah Bangash (wk) | Sajid Khan | Shahnawaz Dahani | — |
| Imran Butt (c) | Ali Shan (wk) | Hassan Raza | Kashif Ali | Kashif Bhatti |
| Mehran Mumtaz | Mohammad Abbas | Mohammad Faizan | Mohammad Ghazi Ghori (wk) | Mohammad Hurraira |
| Mohammad Ismail | Muhammad Irfan Khan | Niaz Khan | Qasim Akram | Rameez Aziz |
| Salman Ali Agha | Saud Shakeel | Shahid Aziz | Sirajuddin | — |
| Khalid Usman (c) | Abdul Razzaq | Ahmed Safi Abdullah | Akif Javed | Aqib Khan |
| Azan Afridi | Ayaz Tasawar | Bismillah Khan (wk) | Fakhar Zaman | Malhar Rasool |
| Mohammad Ammar | Mohammad Asghar | Mohammad Imran Dogar | Mohammad Waseem Jnr | Mohammad Zeeshan |
| Muhammad Adil | Muhammad Akhlaq (wk) | Muhammad Arif | Muhammad Ismail | Muhammad Naeem |
| Muhammad Naveed | Muhammad Umair | Mujtaba Khan | Nabi Gul | Naqeebullah |
| Rafay Rana | Rehan Afridi | Sharoon Siraj | Usman Iqbal | — |
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