Pakistan’s Champions Tournaments: Elevating Pakistan's Domestic Cricket

Pakistan’s Champions Tournaments: Elevating Pakistan’s Domestic Cricket

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August 5, 2024

Pakistan's Domestic Cricket

Discover the exciting new Champions tournaments in Pakistan, featuring top domestic players, enhanced contracts, and high-performance centers for each team. — *1 PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi’s press conference on the Champions events and 2024-25 Men’s Domestic Cricket Calendar.*

The Champions tournaments are set to revolutionize domestic cricket with an exciting new format and enhanced player support. Featuring five dynamic teams – Dolphins, Lions, Panthers, Stallions, and Wolves – this competition promises to bring the best of Pakistan’s cricket talent to the forefront as mentioned by Mohsin Naqvi.

Key features of the newly launched Champions tournaments are:

Five teams – Dolphins, Lions, Panthers, Stallions, and Wolves – will take part in each Champions Cup event.
Each Champions Cup event will be held in a double-league format.
Around 150 of the country’s top-performing domestic players from the past three years, along with centrally contracted players, will be up for selection (more details to be shared soon).
Each team will have a former Pakistan cricket star as a mentor and possibly as an owner (mentor and owner names/details to be announced soon).
The support staff for each team will include Head Coach (at least Level 3, minimum five years with a first-class team), batting/bowling/fielding coaches (minimum Level 3, three-year experience), Strength and Conditioning Coach, Physiotherapist, Analyst, Operations Manager, and Media/Digital Media Manager.
Each team will be given a dedicated Regional High-Performance Centre for training and practice in Faisalabad (High Performance Centre Faisalabad), Karachi (Hanif Mohammad High Performance Centre), Lahore (National Cricket Academy), Multan (Inzamam-ul-Haq High Performance Centre), and Sialkot (High Performance Centre, Sialkot).
Improved domestic contracts will be provided to 150 cricketers as: Category 1: 40 players, PKR550,000 per month; Category 2: 50 players, PKR400,000 per month; Category 3: 60 players, PKR250,000 per month. In the 2023-24 season, domestic contracts were offered as PKR300,000 for A+ Category, PKR200,000 for A Category, PKR185,000 for B Category, PKR170,000 for C Category, PKR150,000 for D Category, PKR100,000 for E Category, and PKR50,000 for F Category.
In addition to the monthly retainers, players will get better match fees as follows: PKR200,000 for red-ball cricket, PKR125,000 for 50-over matches, and PKR100,000 for T20 matches. In the 2023-24 season, match fees were PKR80,000 and PKR40,000 for red and white-ball cricket, respectively.
Each team will have a Corporate Sponsor and Media Partner. Other income sources will include broadcast and live-streaming rights, event title sponsorship, ground branding rights, and ticket sales/merchandise.

With improved contracts, dedicated high-performance centers, and significant sponsorship opportunities, the Champions tournaments are poised to elevate the standard of domestic cricket. Fans can look forward to thrilling matches and witnessing the rise of the next generation of cricket stars.

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