{"id":83516,"date":"2025-08-19T12:14:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T07:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=83516"},"modified":"2025-08-19T12:14:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T07:14:37","slug":"pcb-awards-central-contracts-to-30-players-for-2025-26-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pcb-awards-central-contracts-to-30-players-for-2025-26-season\/","title":{"rendered":"PCB awards central contracts to 30 players for 2025-26 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pcb-announces-squad-for-asia-cup-babar-rizwan-dropped\/\">(PCB)<\/a> has announced the Cricketers\u2019 central contracts to 30 players for 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p>A group of 10 players was placed in categories B, C, and D based on <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pak-vs-wi-green-shirts-edge-out-west-indies-by-14-runs-in-first-t20i\/\">performance<\/a>. The contracts will be effective from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, 27 players were given contracts. This year, the number has increased to 30, with 12 new players added.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed Daniyal, Faheem Ashraf, Hassan Ali, Hassan Nawaz, Hussain Talat, Khushdil Shah, Muhammad Abbas, Muhammad Haris, Muhammad Nawaz, Sohaibzada Farhan, Salman Mirza, and Sufyan Muqeem were among the new players.<\/p>\n<p>Nine players managed to retain their previous category. However, eight players failed to get contracts.<\/p>\n<p>B Category: Babar Azam, Muhammad Rizwan, Shaheen Shah, Fakhar Zaman, Shadab Khan, Abrar Ahmed, Haris Rauf, Hassan Ali, Saim Ayub, Salman Ali Agha.<\/p>\n<p>C Category: Abdullah Shafiq, Naseem Shah, Saud Shakeel, Faheem Ashraf, Sajid Khan, Muhammad Nawaz, Muhammad Haris, Sohaibzada Farhan, Hassan Nawaz, Noman Ali.<\/p>\n<p>D Category: Shan Masood, Hussain Talat, Muhammad Abbas, Muhammad Wasim Jr., Muhammad Abbas Afridi, Khushdil Shah, Ahmed Daniyal, Salman Mirza, Khurram Shahzad, Sufyan Muqeem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has announced the Cricketers\u2019 central contracts to 30 players for 2025-26. A group of 10 players was placed in categories B, C, and D based on performance. The contracts will be effective from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026. Last year, 27 players were given contracts. This year, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":39830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30775,364],"class_list":["post-83516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-central-contracts","tag-pcb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83521,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83516\/revisions\/83521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}