LAHORE
\nWith only a few days left for the expiry of current central contracts, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is expected to finalise the new contracts for players after consultation with skipper Babar Azam and other senior cricketers.
\nIt should be noted that the current central contracts will expire on June 30, which is why the PCB has started working on new deals for the players for the 2023-24 season.
\nSources told that numerous changes are expected in the central contracts with promotion and demotion for many players.
\nThe PCB is also discussing whether it should continue to award separate contracts based on white-ball and red-ball cricket.
\nDue to retirement, veteran batter Azhar Ali will be excluded from the centrally-contracted players list. Meanwhile, Fawad Alam, Yasir Shah, Nauman Ali, Khushdil Shah, Usman Qadir and Zahid Mehmood are also likely to lose their central contracts.
\nHowever, Iftikhar Ahmed, Saim Ayub, Ihsanullah, Usama Mir and Zaman Khan could be inducted into the list.
\nThe sources also revealed that pacers Haris Rauf and Naseem Shah could be promoted when the new centrally-contracted players\u2019 list is announced.
\nPCB men\u2019s central contracts list for 2022-23
\nRed and white ball contracts (5):
\nBabar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan, Shaheen Shah Afridi (all Category A),
\nHasan Ali (red-ball Category B, white-ball Category C)
\nImam-ul-Haq (red-ball Category C, white-ball Category B)
\nRed ball contracts (10):
\nCategory A \u2014 Azhar Ali
\nCategory B \u2014 Fawad Alam
\nCategory C \u2014 Abdullah Shafique, Naseem Shah and Nauman Ali
\nCategory D \u2014 Abid Ali, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Saud Shakeel, Shan Masood and Yasir Shah
\nWhite ball contracts (11):
\nCategory A \u2014 Fakhar Zaman and Shadab Khan
\nCategory B \u2014 Haris Rauf
\nCategory C \u2014 Mohammad Nawaz
\nCategory D \u2014 Asif Ali, Haider Ali, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Wasim Jnr, Shahnawaz Dahani, Usman Qadir and Zahid Mehmood
\nEmerging contracts (7):
\nAli Usman (Southern Punjab)
\nHaseebullah (Balochistan)
\nKamran Ghulam (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)
\nMohammad Haris (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)
\nMohammad Huraira (Northern)
\nQasim Akram (Central Punjab)
\nSalman Ali Agha (Southern Punjab)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LAHORE With only a few days left for the expiry of current central contracts, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is expected to finalise the new contracts for players after consultation with skipper Babar Azam and other senior cricketers. It should be noted that the current central contracts will expire on June 30, which is why […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-335776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"\n