Oil and Gasoline Improvement Firm Restricted (OGDCL) and Kingsmen Academy are set to switch Water and Energy Improvement Authority (WAPDA) and Sahir Associates within the President’s Trophy and Cup Grade-I for the upcoming 2026-27 home cricket season, the Pakistan Cricket Board introduced on Tuesday.
In an effort to improve the standard of cricket and keep excessive requirements of home cricket, a lot of laws have been shared with the first-class departmental groups. These laws are so as to run the President’s Trophy and Cup Grade-I occasions in a extra skilled method after reviewing the final iteration of each occasions.
Sahir Associates and WAPDA weren’t capable of adjust to the PCB’s laws and have been changed. Furthermore, Departments are set to conduct obligatory health assessments for his or her gamers in keeping with the home cricket’s new health coverage issued by the PCB for season 2026-27. In keeping with the circulated coverage, a criterion has been set to incorporate at the very least one U21 participant within the enjoying XI of all departments in white and red-ball tournaments.
The departments should meet the laws together with that of the audit of all taking part groups by the PCB throughout and after tournaments to make sure gamers are paid their due annual contractual charges, match charges, each day allowances by way of accounts in a clear method together with the supply of sound lodging and high quality meals whereas sustaining the excessive requirements required to participate in first-class and Record-A cricket.
Departmental Cricket is the spine of Pakistan’s Home cricket and it’s anticipated that each single division abides by the excessive requirements set for participant contracts and salaries, participant lodging, pre-season health assessments and welfare of gamers, which is of paramount significance to the PCB.
The whole pool of eight Grade-I groups for the 2026-27 season contains Khan Analysis Laboratories (KRL), Kingsmen Academy, Oil and Gasoline Improvement Firm Restricted (OGDCL), Pakistan Tv (PTV), Ghani Glass, MIT Options, State Financial institution of Pakistan (SBP) and Sui Northern Gasoline Pipelines Restricted (SNGPL).
Osama Sharoon, Senior Normal Supervisor Home Cricket Operations PCB:
“In our steady efforts to keep up excessive requirements {of professional} cricket within the home cricket circuit we have now additional streamlined the Grade-I departmental cricket groups as benefit and accountability are two virtues that can not be compromised relating to participant welfare and offering top-quality cricket enjoying alternatives.
“As per Chairman PCB’s imaginative and prescient there isn’t any room in any way for deviation from benefit and excessive requirements {of professional} cricket and gamers’ welfare within the nation. Departmental cricket has performed an enormous function in nurturing expertise throughout years in Pakistan and it ought to proceed to progress and enhance each season.
“Our central theme stays participant improvement by way of aggressive cricket tournaments on the home degree and we’ll go to all lengths to implement excessive requirements throughout the board constantly.”