KARACHI (Dunya News) – The High Performance Department has successfully returned to presenting a complete and exciting tournament in the challenging Covid-19 period when 33 matches of Pakistan Cup One-Day Tournament 2020-21 end here in Karachi.

After Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Central Punjab shared the first-class Quaid-e-Azam Trophy early last month after the first series final in Pakistan’s first-class history, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa beat Central Punjab by seven goals in the 50-over final at Bank Negara Stadium to add to the T20 Cup collection. National. In the National T20 Cup final on 18 October, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa beat South Punjab by 10 runs.

For former Pakistani all-rounder Abdul Razzaq, it was a dream start to his coaching career as his team featured in the finals of all three formats. However, Sindh took the honor of sweeping both the National One Day and Three Day Tournaments as the High Performance department ensured the Pakistan Cricket Council became the first cricket federation to overcome the Covid-19 challenge by successfully presenting eight competitions.

The domestic season’s final tournament – PCB U16 National One Day Tournament – will be held in Rawalpindi from February 13-23.

To date, the High Performance department has submitted 204 matches in eight competitions – First and Second National XI T20 Cup, three-day and first-class Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, Pakistan Cup XI First and Second and National U19 One-Day and Tournament Three. Day. Of these eight matches, the Quaid-e-Azam Cup and Pakistan Cup were held in Karachi, U19 matches were divided between Lahore, Islamabad, Muridke, Rawalpindi, Sheikhupura, the First XI National T20 Cup matches were played in Multan and Rawalpindi, while Lahore was the venue for the Cup. National T20 XI Second.

With 15 Pepsi-PCB National U16 One-Day Tournament matches still to be played, 204 matches have been submitted since the season started on September 30, which means 49 more games than were delivered in 2019-20. In the 2019-20 season, 153 matches in seven tournaments were played and the only event affected by the Covid-19 outbreak was the Pakistan Cup.

In between, PCB also hosted white ball matches against Zimbabwe (all in Rawalpindi), Tests against South Africa and the remaining four matches of the Pakistan Super League HBL 2020 (all in Karachi).

The Pakistan Cup, supported by Service Tire, lived up to its expectations of delivering thrilling and entertaining cricket while maintaining high standards throughout the competition.

In 33 tournament games a total of 17,783 runs were scored for a whopping 498 wickets with the help of 460 sixes and 1,538 fours. This means the aggregate average of matches remains at an impressive 538, while the average first-half total remains at 278.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan were involved in the top two aggregate matches. In the January 12 match, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa pursued a 378 run target with two goals remaining, while two weeks late, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa made two of two against Balochistan by successfully defending 370 for nine wins with 23 runs. The first match saw 755 runs scored at a run-rate of 7.5, while 717 runs were scored in the second fixture with an impressive run-rate of 7.3.

Interestingly, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was also involved in the match that resulted in the lowest aggregate match. Two days after appearing in the 755 run, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa beat Northern for 112 and then went on to win by losing six goals. This match produced 225 rounds in 59.5 overs with an average of 3.7.

A total of 29 centuries were scored in a 23-day competition with Khurram Manzoor of Sindh and Sahibzada Farhan of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa scoring three hundred each. However, Tayyab Tahir of Central Punjab finished as the most consistent and successful batsman of the tournament when he scored 666 runs in 12 games over a century and six and a half centuries.

Other hitters to entertain fans and followers with their punches include Khurram Manzoor (655 runs), Mukhtar Ahmed of South Punjab (597 runs), Imran Farhat of Balochistan (499 runs), Sahibzada Farhan (487 runs) and the opener of the Shan Masood Test, the 472 running runs came in just five games with two centuries and as many as half a century.

130 Sohaib Maqsood includes a maximum number of six in one round – 10 – while 127 Asif Ali includes 98 runs in the limit (17×4, 5×6). 155 of Sahibzada Farhan (135b, 15×4, 3×6) were the highest individual scores in the tournament, followed by Khurram Manzoor 143 not outs (163b, 15×4, 1×6) and Shan Masood 141 (128b, 12×4).

Khyber’s left-arm spinner Asif Afridi is the choice of bowlers with 25 goals, including one hat trick. However, he kept his best bowling performances from five for 31 to the final which helped his team to turn Punjab Central out for 239 in 47 over.

19 wickets Zahid Mahmood helped him land a Pakistani call-up for the T20I against South Africa, while other well-known bowlers were Central Punjab players due to Usman Qadir (17) and Ahmed Bashir (16), and Mohammad Umar from Sindh (15).

There are five five-fers – two by Asif Afridi and one each by Usman Qadir, Umer Khan and Amad Butt – and 15 four-fers, one each by Hassan Khan, Danish Aziz, Mohammad Umar (all Sindh), Gohar Faiz, Raza -ul-Hasan, Taj Wali (Balochistan), Mohammad Abbas, Mohamamd Ilyas, Zahid Mahmood (all South Punjab), Ahmed Bashir, Usman Qadir (both Central Punjab), Hammad Azam (North), Iftikhar Ahmed, Imran Khan, Irfanullah Shah (all Khyber Pakhtunkhwa).

Northern all-round player Hammad Azam who scored 443 runs at 44.30 with two fifties’ assistance and took 13 goals at 29.69 was named Player-of-the-Tournament.

The goalkeeper award goes to Azam Khan of Sindh, who was named the Best Goalkeeper of the Tournament for his 13 sackings in seven matches.

Despite a number of tight and tight finishes, the second semi-final between Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Northern was the only match to be determined in Super Over after both sides finished with 303 run pieces.

On another close finish, Balochistan beat South Punjab with one goal, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on two and Sindh on three. Apart from beating South Punjab by one goal, Balochistan’s other two victories were against Central Punjab (with six goals) and Sindh (with three goals).

Northern’s 154 runs against Central Punjab was the biggest win in terms of runs, while South Punjab was twice involved in the biggest wins in terms of goals when they beat Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan and eight wickets each.