Central Punjab cricket team is a − first-class cricket team in Pakistan. The team with five other new teams was introduced as a part of new domestic structure by − Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on 31 August 2019.
2019 squads On 3 September 2019, PCB announced both First XI and Second XI squads of the team. Babar Azam was announced as captain of the team's First XI, while Ali Waqas was named as Second XI's captain for the season.
First XI
Babar Azam (c) Ahmed Shehzad (vc) Azhar Ali Hasan Ali Ahmed Bashir Ali Shan Bilal Asif Ehsan Adil Fahim Ashraf Kamran Akmal (wk) Mohammad Saad Naseem Shah Rizwan Hussain Saad Nasim Salman Butt Umar Akmal Usman Salahuddin Waqas Maqsood Zafar Gohar Nasir Nawaz Nauman Anwar Usman Qadir
Second XI
Ali Waqas (c) Abdullah Shafique Ahmed Safi Abdullah Aizaz Cheema (mentor) Ali Zaryab Asad Raza Atiq-ur-Rehman Ayaz Tasawwar Bilawal Iqbal Farhan Khan (wk) Irfan Khan Muhammad Akhlaq Mohammad Ali Raza Ali Dar Suleman Shafqat Zahid Mansoor
2020 Squads Team management retained several of their players in both First XI and Second XI from the previous year's squads. Pakistan's Test and ODI opening batsman Abid Ali was included in this year's squad and some of the Second XI players from last year were selected in First XI squad as a reward for their excellent performances, and some were demoted in team's Second XI.
First XI
Abid Ali Azhar Ali Muhammad Akhlaq Naseem Shah Kamran Akmal (wk) Salman Butt Ahmed Shehzad Usman Salahuddin Rizwan Hussain Abdullah Shafique Ali Zaryab Fahim Ashraf Hasan Ali Ahmed Bashir Zafar Gohar Usman Qadir Bilal Asif Ehsan Adil Waqas Maqsood Mohammad Saad Saad Nasim Suleman Shafqat Mohammad Ali Bilawal Iqbal Irfan Khan Babar Azam (c) Farhan Khan (wk) Ahmed Safi Abdullah Muhammad Bin Pasha
Second XI Ali Shan Nauman Anwar Raza Ali Dar
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