The 2021–22 National T20 Cup was a Twenty20 domestic cricket competition that was played in Pakistan. It was the 18th season of the National T20 Cup, with the tournament starting on 23 September 2021, and finishing on 13 October 2021. In September 2021, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) confirmed the fixtures for the tournament. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were the defending champions.
Following the completion of the matches in Rawalpindi, the teams of Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Central Punjab and Northern had all won four of their six games, with Sindh topping the table on net run rate. Balochistan had won just two of their six matches, while Southern Punjab sat at the foot of the table with no wins from their six fixtures.
On 6 October 2021, four members of Balochistan's squad tested positive for COVID-19. As a result, their match scheduled for later the same day was moved back to 9 October 2021, with Northern and Southern Punjab playing each other instead.
Ahead of the penultimate day of group matches, Central Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Northern and Sindh had all qualified for the semi-finals of the tournament, with Balochistan and Southern Punjab being eliminated. In the first semi-final, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa beat Northern by five wickets, with Central Punjab beating Sindh by seven wickets in the second semi-final. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa won the final by seven wickets to win their second successive title. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa' Iftikhar Ahmed was named both the player of the final and the player of the tournament.
Squads On 20 September 2021, the PCB confirmed all the squads for the tournament. Mohammad Hafeez missed the early matches of the National T20 Cup due to food poisoning, and with further tests he was diagnosed with dengue fever.
BalochistanCentral PunjabKhyber PakhtunkhwaNorthernSindhSouthern Punjab Imam-ul-Haq (c) Bismillah Khan (vc, wk) Abdul Bangalzai Akbar-ur-Rehman Akif Javed Amad Butt Ayaz Tasawwar Gohar Faiz Haris Sohail Jalat Khan Junaid Khan Kashif Bhatti Khurram Shahzad Mohammad Ibrahim Umaid Asif Yasir Shah Babar Azam (c) Hasan Ali (vc) Abdullah Shafique Ahmed Safi Abdullah Ahmed Shehzad Ehsan Adil Faheem Ashraf Hussain Talat Kamran Akmal (wk) Muhammad Akhlaq (wk) Mohammad Hafeez Qasim Akram Saif Badar Shoaib Malik Usman Qadir Wahab Riaz Waqas Maqsood Mohammad Rizwan (c, wk) Shaheen Afridi (vc) Adil Amin Arshad Iqbal Asif Afridi Fakhar Zaman Iftikhar Ahmed Imran Khan Israrullah Maaz Khan Mohammad Haris (wk) Mohammad Imran Khan Mohammad Wasim Musadiq Ahmed Sahibzada Farhan Shadab Khan (c) Mohammad Nawaz (vc) Rohail Nazir (wk) Ali Imran Asif Ali Haider Ali Haris Rauf Imad Wasim Muhammad Musa Nasir Nawaz Salman Irshad Sohail Akhtar Sohail Tanvir Umar Amin Zaman Khan Zeeshan Malik Sarfaraz Ahmed (c, wk) Anwar Ali (vc) Abrar Ahmed Ahsan Ali Danish Aziz Hasan Mohsin Khurram Manzoor Mir Hamza Mohammad Hasnain Mohammad Taha Rumman Raees Saud Shakeel Shan Masood Shahnawaz Dahani Sharjeel Khan Zahid Mahmood Sohaib Maqsood (c) Zeeshan Ashraf (vc) Aamer Yamin Azam Khan (wk) Dilbar Hussain Faisal Akram Hassan Khan Imran Randhawa Khushdil Shah Mohammad Ilyas Naseem Shah Salman Ali Agha Tayyab Tahir Umer Khan Zain Abbas Zia-ul-Haq
Points table
Fixtures Round-robin
Finals
References
External links Series home at ESPN Cricinfo