PCB hands Babar Azam, Rizwan, Shaheen red and white-ball contracts for 2022-23.

LAHORE -- The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Thursday announced its men's central contract lists for 2022-23, which comes into effect from Friday, 1 July.

It is the first time in history that the cricket board has introduced separate red and white-ball contracts, and added four more players to the 'emerging' category. This means 33 players, with a difference of 13 players as compared to the previous season, have received contracts for the next 12 months.

As per the statement released by PCB, the cricketers who have received both the red and white-ball contracts include Pakistan's all-format captain Babar Azam, along with Hasan Ali, Imam-ul-Haq, Mohammad Rizwan and Shaheen Shah Afridi.

Among the 10 players who have received red-ball contracts, Azhar Ali has been promoted to Category A, Abdullah Shafique and Naseem Shah have been placed in Category C, which is also a first.

Meanwhile, Saud Shakeel has been awarded Category D, Fawad Alam and Nauman Ali have been retained Category B and C, respectively. Whereas Abid Ali, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Shan Masood and Yasir Shah have been handed Category D contracts.

Moreover, eleven limited-over specialists have been awarded white-ball contracts.

Fakhar Zaman and Shadab Khan, who were in Category B in 2021-22, have been awarded Category A contracts, while Haris Rauf has been promoted to Category B. Mohammad Nawaz has been retained in Category C.

Shahnawaz Dahani and Usman Qadir have been promoted from Emerging to Category D where they are joined by first-timers Asif Ali, Haider Ali, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Wasim Jnr and Zahid Mehmood.

In the Emerging Category, the PCB as part of its strategy to encourage, develop and incentivise up-and-coming domestic performers, has increased the number of players from three to seven.

On the occasion, Chief Selector Muhammad Wasim said:

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