The 2020–21 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy was a first-class domestic cricket competition that took place in Karachi, Pakistan, from 25 October 2020 to 5 January 2021. Central Punjab cricket team were the defending champions. Central Punjab started their title defence poorly, with no wins from their first five matches. Despite being at the bottom of the points table half-way through the tournament, they won four of the next five matches to finish second in their group, advancing to the final with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The final finished in a tie, with Central Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa sharing the title. It was the first time the final of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy had been tied, and the first tie in the final of a domestic first-class cricket tournament. Central Punjab's Hasan Ali was named the player of the final and the tournament. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa batsman Kamran Ghulam set a new record for runs scored during a Quaid-e-Azam Trophy season with 1,249; the previous record had stood since 1983–84.
Squads BalochistanCentral PunjabKhyber PakhtunkhwaNorthernSindhSouthern Punjab Yasir Shah (c) Bismillah Khan (vc, wk) Abdul Rehman Muzammil Abdul Bangalzai Adnan Akmal (wk) Akhtar Shah Amad Butt Ayaz Tasawwar Imran Butt Imran Farhat Kashif Bhatti Khurram Shehzad Najeebullah Sami Aslam Taimur Ali Taj Wali Azhar Ali (c) Saad Nasim (vc) Ahmed Bashir Ahmed Safi Abdullah Ahmed Shehzad Ali Shan Ali Zaryab Bilal Asif Ehsan Adil Hasan Ali Kamran Akmal (wk) Mohammad Saad Qasim Akram Rizwan Hussain Salman Butt Usman Salahuddin Waqas Maqsood Ashfaq Ahmed (c) Adil Amin (vc) Ahmed Jamal Imran Khan Israrullah Junaid Khan Kamran Ghulam Khalid Usman Mohammad Mohsin Nabi Gul Rehan Afridi (wk) Sahibzada Farhan Sajid Khan Sameen Gul Samiullah Usman Shinwari Nauman Ali (c) Zeeshan Malik (vc) Ali Sarfraz Asif Ali Faizan Riaz Farhan Shafiq Hammad Azam Jamal Anwar (wk) Nasir Nawaz Naved Malik Sadaf Hussain Salman Irshad Sarmad Bhatti Tauseeq Shah Umar Amin Waqas Ahmed Sarfaraz Ahmed (c, wk) Asad Shafiq (vc) Ashiq Ali Azizullah Fawad Alam Ghulam Mudassar Hasan Mohsin Khurram Manzoor Mir Hamza Mohammad Asghar Omair Yousuf Saad Ali Saud Shakeel Sharjeel Khan Sohail Khan Tabish Khan Shan Masood (c) Hussain Talat (vc) Aamer Yamin Bilawal Bhatti Dilbar Hussain Imran Rafiq Maqbool Ahmed (wk) Mohammad Abbas Mohammad Ilyas Mohammad Irfan Saif Badar Salman Ali Agha Umar Siddiq Umar Khan Zahid Mahmood Zeeshan Ashraf (wk)
On 21 October 2020, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) confirmed the squads for the tournament. Ahead of the opening round of matches, Salman Butt withdrew from the tournament and was replaced by Ali Zaryab in Central Punjab's team.
Points table TeamKhyber Pakhtunkhwa105140 161 –0.013Central Punjab104330 137 –0.111Southern Punjab104420 129 –0.145Balochistan103430 128 +0.098Northern103340 123 +0.183Sindh101540 87 –0.006
Fixtures Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Round 4
Round 5
Round 6
Round 7
Round 8
Round 9
Round 10
Final
References
External links Series home at ESPN Cricinfo