| Dates | 24 November – 10 December 2023 |
|---|---|
| Administrator(s) | Pakistan Cricket Board |
| Cricket format | Twenty20 |
| Tournament format(s) | Group stage and knockout |
| Host(s) |  Pakistan |
| Participants | 18 |
| Matches | 63 |
| Official website | National T20 Cup |
The 2023–24 National T20 Cup is an ongoing Twenty20 domestic cricket competition played in Pakistan. It is the 20th season of the National T20 Cup, with the tournament starting from 24 November 2023 and final to be played on 10 December 2023.[1][2]Sindh are the defending champions, winning the 2022-23 edition.[3][4][5][6]
Overview
National T20 2023-24 is set to begin from 24 November and will last until 10 December. 18 teams are taking the part in the tournament which is scheduled to be played across four venues – National Bank Stadium, UBL Sports Complex, HPC Oval Ground and NBP Sports Complex – in Karachi.
Broadcasting
All matches played at National Bank Stadium will be broadcast on PTV Sports and ARY ZAP in Pakistan, and live-streamed on YouTube in overseas territories. Double-header matches at National Bank Stadium will begin at 15:00 PKT and 20:00 PKT, with toss conducted at 14:30 PKT and 19:30 PKT respectively.
Free Entry
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has also announced free entry for spectators for all matches being played at National Bank Stadium. The Hanif Mohammad, Javed Miandad and Fazal Mahmood enclosures will be accessible for the spectators.
The 63-match tournament has been structured to open with group stage games, which will be followed by Super Eight matches. A total of 32 group stage matches are set to be played from 24 to 28 November. 18 participating teams have been put in four groups.
Teams Meetup
The first set of fixtures will see Lahore Whites face Larkana and Karachi Blues face Peshawar at NBP Sports Complex in Group A. In Group B, Karachi Whites will play against Islamabad and Hyderabad will feature against DM Jamali at UBL Sports Complex. Rawalpindi will take on Abbottabad and Faisalabad will face Bahawalpur at National Bank Stadium for Group C and lastly, for group D, HPC Oval Ground will stage the Multan-Sialkot clash and FATA-AJK game.
Super 8 Stage
Top two teams from each group will progress to the Super Eight stage, which will be played in a round-robin format from 1 to 8 December. The complete schedule for Super Eight games will be revealed in due course.
Final
Following the Super Eight stage, the top four teams will qualify for the semi-finals. Both semi-finals are scheduled to be played on 9 December at National Bank Stadium, at 1500 PKT and 2000 PKT respectively. The final is scheduled to be played at the same venue on 10 December. The toss will take place at 1930 PKT and the first ball will be bowled at 2000 PKT.
Background
This is the first edition of the tournament played since the PCB 2014 Constitution was reinstated. The previous edition of National T20, which featured six sides, was won by Sindh who clinched their maiden title after defeating defending champions Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by eight wickets. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa lost out on securing a hat-trick of titles after winning both the 2020-21 and 2021-22 editions.
Format
The 18 qualifying teams will be divided into four groups of five; the top two teams in each group will advance to the Super 8 round. In this stage,the qualifying teams will be split into one groups of 8; the top four teams from each group will qualify for the knockout stage, which will consist of two semi-finals and a final.[7]
Teams
| Group A | Group B | Group C | Group D |
|---|---|---|---|
Squads
Group A
| Karachi Blues | Lahore Whites | Larkana | Peshawar | Quetta |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Jahanzaib Sultan, Mohammad Taha, Saifullah Bangash, Kashif Ali, Hasan Mohsin, Saqib Khan, Arish Ali Khan, Afnan Khan, Bahadur Ali, Abdur Rehman, Mohammad Asghar, Rumman Raees, Fazal Subhan, Syed Waleed Azeem, Arbaz Khan |
Ziaullah, Ammad Alam, Asad Shafiq, Omair Bin Yousuf, Khurram Manzoor, Danish Aziz, Azam Khan, Mohammad Hasan, Habibullah, Sohail Khan, Ghulam Mudassir, Aftab Ibrahim, Anwar Ali, Mohammad Ashir Qureshi, Arif Yaqoob |
Umar Khalid, Israr-ul-Haq, Mohammad Aqeel Danish, Ghulam Raza Mahar, Mohsin Ali, Mohsin Raza, Sabit Ali, Mushtaq Ahmed Kalhoro, Imtiaz Ali, Asif Ali Jnr, Ali Haider, Faraz Aziz, Ali Asghar, Mehrooz Ali, Mohammad Umar, Zahid Mehmood |
Sahibzada Farhan, Adil Amin, Israrulllah, Maaz Ahmad Sadaqat, Nabi Gul, Amir Azmat, Imran Khan Snr, Mohammad Imran, Mohammad Ilyas, Mohammad Abbas Afridi, Niaz Khan, Sajid Khan, Usman Tariq, Azam Khan, Mohammad Haris, Iftikhar Ahmed |
Bismillah Khan, Abdul Wahid Bangalzai, Jalat Khan, Gohar Faiz, Abdul Hanan, Najeebullah, Sved Zain Ullah, Mohammad Javed, Nadeem Ahmed, Salahuddin, Obaidullah, Sanaullah, Faheem Rasheed, Bakhtiar Shah, Bohir Aman |
Group B
| Dera Murad Jamali | Hyderabad | Islamabad | Karachi Whites | Lahore Blues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Usama Khalil, Zubair Khan Mengal, Mohammad Deen, Mohammad Avaz, Abdul Rauf, Shoaib Ahmed, Fahad Hussain, Hidayatullah, Saleem Mal, Zahoor Ahmed, Mohammad Shahid, Mohammad Ikram, Aftab Ahmed |
Mohammad Suleman, Salman Khan, Tayyab Ali, Rizwan Mehmood, Daniyal Hussain Rajput, Fardeen Sheikh, Rao Sajid, Akbar Khan, Mustafa Nasir, Asim Jutt, Jawad Ali, Asad Malik, Majid Asghar, Sher Afzal, Zulfiqar Ali |
Rohail Nazir, Sarmad Bhatti, Ali Imran, Hassan Nawaz, Sudais Ulfat, Musa Khan, Mohammad Arham, Umair Afridi, Mohammad Arsal Sheikh, Mohammad Shavan Sheikh, Mohammad Hammad, Salman Khan, Hammad Siddique, Azan Tariq, Farmanullah Khan, Haris Raut, Imad Wasim |
Ziaullah, Ammad Alam, Asad Shafiq, Omair Bin Yousuf, Khurram Manzoor, Danish Aziz, Azam Khan, Mohammad Hasan, Habibullah, Sohail Khan, Ghulam Mudassir, Aftab Ibrahim, Anwar Ali, Mohammad Ashir Qureshi, Arif Yaqoob |
Imran Butt, Hussain Talat, Umar Siddiq, Rizwan Hussain, Nisar Ahmed, Junaid Ali, Shahwaiz Irfan, Mohammad Waheed, Hunain Shah, Umaid Asif, Asfand Mehran, Kashif Bhatti, Salman Irshad, Qasim Akram, Hashim Ibraheem |
Group C
| Abbottabad | Bahawalpur | Faisalabad | Rawalpindi |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Sajjad Ali, Afaq Ahmed, Anees Azam, Mohammad Arif, Yasir Shah, Khalid Usman, Aitizaz Habib Khan, Mehroz Rasheed, Israr Hussain, Fayaz Khan, Aqib Khan, Ahmed Khan, Adil Naz, Khayyam Khan, Fakhar Zaman, Kamran Ghulam, Arshad Iqbal |
Ali Imran, Mohammad Sudais, Mohammad Faizan Zafar, Mohammad Wasim Bhatti, Mohammad Shahrivar, Abdul Hadi, Mohammad Naveed Yousaf, Aun Shehzad, Mohammad Shahid Mirani, Husnain Majid, Mohammad Junaid, Mohammad Asif Ali, Mohammad Adeel Ur Rehman, Shayan Khalil, Syed Khurram Ali Shah |
Mohammad Shehzad, Muhammad Irfan Khan, Abdul Samad, Abubakar Khan, Ali Shan, Taimoor Sultan, Mohammad Faizan, Mohammad Saleem, Waqas Maqsood, Sadaqat Ali, Asad Raza, Arham Nawab, Ahmed Safi Abdullah, Asif Ali, Bilal Mehdi |
Abdul Fasseh, Nasir Nawaz, Rehman Khan, Umar Amin, Mubasir Khan, Zeeshan Malik, Umair Masood, Raza ul Mustafa, Sheraz Khan, Mohammad Faizan, Jahandad Khan, Mehran Mumtaz, Umer Khan, Haider Ali, Yasir Khan, Zaman Khan |
Group D
| Azad Jammu & Kashmir | FATA | Multan | Sialkot |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Nadeem Khalil, Usman Maroof, Mohammad Haider, Naveed Malik, Syad Hasham Shah, Sved Faraz, Faizan Saleem, Basit Ali, Raja Farhan, Danival Allah Ditta, Amir Hamza, Usman Yousaf, Aqib Liaqat, Awias Akram, Mohammad Shehzad |
Khushdil Shah, Usman Khan Shinwari, Salman Khan, Kashif Noor, Azaz Khan, Asif Ali, Mohammad Sarwar Afridi, Mohammad Riaz Khan, Rehan Afridi, Asif Afridi, Maaz Khan, Irfanullah Shah, Akif Javed, Shahid Aziz, Samiullah Jnr |
Zain Abbas, Haseebullah, Sharoon Siraj, Aamir Yamin, Muhammad Imran, Mohammad Shehzad, Sharjeel Khan, Sohaib Maqsood, Mohammad Sadaqat, Tahir Hussain, Ali Usman, Zeeshan Ashraf, Sirajuddin, Faisal Akram, Ali Majid |
Mohammad Huraira, Bilal Asif, Usman Khalid, Shoaib Malik, Ammad Butt, Mirza Tahir Baig, Salman Khan, Ashir Mehmood, Zaki Shaz Khan, Mohammad Abbas, Sohaibullah Khan, Asad Ali, Hamza Nazar, Shoaib Akhtar |
Group stage
The group stage will consist of four groups of five teams, played as a single round-robin format. The top two teams in each group will progress to the Super 8 stage.
Group A
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peshawar | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2.713 | Advanced to Super 8s |
| 2 | Lahore Whites | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1.368 | |
| 3 | Karachi Blues | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1.110 | |
| 4 | Larkana | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | −3.062 | |
| 5 | Quetta | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | −2.292 |
Lahore Whites 141/3 (16.5 overs) |
v |
Larkana 137/8 (20 overs) |
Ahmed Shehzad 60 (52) Ali Asghar 1/24 (4 overs) |
Umer Khalid 33 (19) Mohammad Irfan 3/12 (4 overs) |
- Lahore Whites won the toss and elected to field.
Karachi Blues 102/3 (18.2 overs) |
v |
Peshawar 101 (18.1 overs) |
Mohammad Haris 39 (30) Waleed Azeem 3/24 (4 overs) |
- Karachi Blues won the toss and elected to field.
Lahore Whites 128/9 (20 overs) |
v |
Peshawar 129/3(18.3 Overs) |
- Peshawar won the toss and elected to field.
Karachi Blues 146/5(19 Overs) |
v |
Quetta 145/8(20 Overs) |
Jahanzaib Sultan 77 (55) Gohar Faiz 2/27 (4 overs) |
- Quetta won the toss and elected to Bat.
Larkana 61 (16.5 Overs) |
v |
Karachi Blues 63/1(8.2 Overs) |
Faraz Aziz 26 (32) Waleed Azeem 4/9 (3.5 overs) |
- Larkana won the toss and elected to Bat.
Lahore Whites 135/1 (12 overs) |
v |
Quetta 132/5 (20 overs) |
Ahmed Shehzad 81 (44) Hanan Achakzai 1/22 (2 overs) |
- Lahore Whites won the toss and elected to field.
Peshawar 248/2 (20 Overs) |
v |
Larkana 122/7 (20 Overs) |
Umar Khalid 33 (30) Mohammad Imran 2/15 (4 overs) |
- Larkana won the toss and elected to field.
Quetta 110 (19.5 overs) |
v |
Larkana 125 (20 overs) |
Imtiaz Leghari 48* (24) Salahuddin 3/2 (1 over) |
- Quetta won the toss and elected to field.
Karachi Blues 150/7 (20 Overs) |
v |
Lahore Whites 154/3 (18 Overs) |
- Lahore Whites won the toss and elected to field.
Group B
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lahore Blues | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0.223 | Advanced to Super 8s |
| 2 | Karachi Whites | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1.165 | |
| 3 | Islamabad | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | −0.055 | |
| 4 | Dera Murad Jamali | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | −0.321 | |
| 5 | Hyderabad | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | −0.878 |
Karachi Whites 121/6 (18.3 overs) |
v |
Islamabad 119/7 (20 overs) |
Asad Shafiq 59 (36) Shayan Shaikh 2/14 (4 overs) |
Hassan Nawaz 26 (21) Arif Yaqoob 4/18 (4 overs) |
- Karachi Whites won the toss and elected to field.
Hyderabad 116/8 (20 overs) |
v |
Dera Murad Jamali 117 (19.3 overs) |
Muhammad Suleman 39 (39) Mohammad Ayaz 2/26 (overs) |
Zubair Khan 36 (34) Majid Asghar 3/15 (4 overs) |
- Dera Murad Jamali won the toss and elected to Bat.
Karachi Whites 183/2(17.5 Overs) |
v |
Dera Murad Jamali 182/6 (20 Overs) |
Fahad Hussain 45 (26) Ziaullah 3/36 (4 overs) |
- Karachi Whites won the toss and elected to field.
Hyderabad 153/6 (20 Overs) |
v |
Lahore Blues 154/9 (20 Overs) |
Mohammad Suleman 57 (49) Hunain Shah 3/20 (4 overs) |
Imran Butt 48 (32) Jawad Ali 3/38 (4 overs) |
- Hyderabad won the toss and elected to Bat.
Lahore Blues 159/8 (20 Overs) |
v |
Karachi Whites 154/7 (20 Overs) |
Imran Butt 54 (35) Aftab Ibrahim 2/15 (3 overs) |
- Karachi Whites won the toss and elected to field.
Islamabad 130/8 (20 overs) |
v |
Dera Murad Jamali 127 (19.1 overs) |
Hammad Saddique 51* (41) Salim Mal 2/26 (4 overs) |
Zubair Khan 46 (40) Umair Afridi 4/24 (3.1 overs) |
- Dera Murad Jamali won the toss and elected to Bat.
Lahore Blues 142/5 (19.3 overs) |
v |
Dera Murad Jamali 139/9 (20 overs) |
Rizwan Hussain 45 (39) Nasir Khan 2/16 (4 overs) |
Nasir Khan 30 (29) Asfand Mehran3/24 (4 overs) |
- Dera Murad Jamali won the toss and elected to Bat.
Islamabad 153/3 (20 overs) |
v |
Hyderabad 143/7 (20 overs) |
Mohammad Suleman 62 (56) Umair Afridi 3/22 (4 overs) |
- Islamabad won the toss and elected to Bat.
Lahore Blues 154/7 (20 overs) |
v |
Islamabad 149 (19.4 overs) |
Qasim Akram 64 (51) Umair Afridi 3/30 (4 overs) |
- Islamabad won the toss and elected to field.
Karachi Whites 103/3 (12.1 Overs) |
v |
Hyderabad 102 (18.4 Overs) |
Ammad Alam 53 (33) Asim Jutt 1/23 (3.1) |
Tayyab Ali Shah 32 (37) Sohail Khan 5/10 (3.4 overs) |
- Karachi Whites won the toss and elected to field.
Group C
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rawalpindi | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1.144 | Advanced to Super 8s |
| 2 | Abbottabad | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1.165 | |
| 3 | Faisalabad | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | −0.085 | |
| 4 | Bahawalpur | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | −2.492 |
Rawalpindi 180/7 (19.5 overs) |
v |
Abbottabad 177/5 (20 overs) |
Raza Ul Mustafa 42* (18) Aqib Khan 2/33 (2.5 overs) |
- Rawalpindi won the toss and elected to field.
Faisalabad 118/2 (15.3 Overs) |
v |
Bahawalpur 117/9 (20 Overs) |
Moinuddin 29 (29) Asad Raza 3/19 (4 overs) |
- Faisalabad won the toss and elected to field.
Rawalpindi 174/6 (20 Overs) |
v |
Faisalabad 147/9 (20 Overs) |
- Faisalabad won the toss and elected to field.
Rawalpindi 232/3 (20 overs) |
v |
Bahawalpur 195/7 (20 overs) |
Aun Shehzad 76 (47) Shiraz Khan 2/38 (4 overs) |
- Bahawalpur won the toss and elected to field.
Abbottabad 144/4 (18.3 overs) |
v |
Faisalabad 143 (20 overs) |
Muhammad Abdul Samad 47 (31) Shahhab 2/22 (4 overs) |
- Abbottabad won the toss and elected to field.
Group D
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sialkot | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2.347 | Advanced to Super 8s |
| 2 | FATA | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0.804 | |
| 3 | Multan | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0.380 | |
| 4 | Azad Jammu & Kashmir | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | −2.881 |
Multan 148/7 (20 overs) |
v |
Sialkot 148/8 (20 overs) |
Tahir Baig 66 (48) Tahir Hussain 4/26 (4 overs) |
- Multan won the toss and elected to field.
FATA 153/8 (20 Overs) |
v |
Azad Jammu & Kashmir 113/7 (20 Overs) |
Naveed Malik 41 (39) Shahid Aziz 4/20 (4) |
- FATA won the toss and elected to bat.
Azad Jammu & Kashmir 131/10 (19.2 Overs) |
v |
Multan 132/3 (17.3 Overs) |
Usman Maroof 51 (31) Tahir Hussain 3/21 (3.2 overs) |
Sharjeel Khan 53 (39) Naveed Malik 1/24 (4 overs) |
- Multan won the toss and elected to field.
Multan 153/5 (20 overs) |
v |
FATA 150/7 (20 overs) |
Samiullah 47 (50) Tahir Hussain 2/27 (4 overs) |
- FATA won the toss and elected to field.
Sialkot 60/1 (6 overs) |
v |
Azad Jammu & Kashmir 59 (18.2 overs) |
Naved Malik 24 (29) Usman Khalid 4/13 (4 overs) |
- Sialkot won the toss and elected to field.
Super 8s
After the group stage, the top two teams in each group will progress to the Super 8 stage which will be played as a single round-robin with the top four teams advancing to the knockout stage.[8][9][10]
Points Table
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peshawar | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3.990 | Advanced to knockout stage |
| 2 | Sialkot | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2.332 | |
| 3 | Rawalpindi | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1.600 | |
| 4 | Karachi Whites | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | |
| 5 | Lahore Blues | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | |
| 6 | Abbottabad | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | −1.600 | |
| 7 | FATA | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | −2.332 | |
| 8 | Lahore Whites | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | −3.900 |
Matches
Round 1
Rawalpindi 179/7 (20 overs) |
v |
Abbottabad 147/5 (20 Overs) |
Mohammad Nawaz 72 (36) Adil Naz 3/45 (4 overs) |
Afaq Ahmed 30 (18) Mohammad Nawaz 2/19 (4 overs) |
- Rawalpindi elected to bat
FATA 103 (16.5 overs) |
v |
|
Salman Khan 23 (28) Sohaibullah 3/8 (3 overs) |
- Sialkot won the toss and elected to field.
Peshawar 142/3 (13.1 overs) |
v |
Lahore Whites 136/6 (20 overs) |
- Peshawar won the toss and elected to field.
Round 2
Round 3
Round 4
Round 5
Round 6
Round 7
Knockout stage
| Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| 1 | Winner of Super 8 | ||||||||
| 4 | 4th Place of Super 8 | ||||||||
| SFW1 | Winner of Semi-final 1 | ||||||||
| SFW2 | Winner of Semi-final 2 | ||||||||
| 2 | Runner-up of Super 8 | ||||||||
| 3 | 3rd Place of Super 8 | ||||||||
Semi-finals
Final
Prize
The winning team of the tournament will pocket a prize money of PKR 5 million. Meanwhile, the tournament runners-up will be awarded PKR 2.5 million. The player of the tournament will be rewarded with PKR 250,000. The same amount has been allotted to three other awards; best batter, best bowler and best wicket-keeper of the tournament. The player of the final will receive PKR 50,000 while player of the match in each of the Super Eight games and the semi-finals will be given PKR 25,000.
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