PCB extends central contracts

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Wednesday extended central contracts awarded to 31 players up to March 31, 2015. Central contracts for 2015 will be awarded from April 1, 2015.

A PCB press release stated that in addition to 31 players, Category D contracts have been awarded to World Cup squad members Yasir Shah and Sohail Khan from January 1 to March 31, 2015.

The term of the previous contracts expired Dec. 31, 2014.

The list of 33 players extended central contracts:

Category ‘A’ (6)
Misbah-ul-Haq, Younis Khan, Mohammad Hafeez, Saeed Ajmal, Shahid Afridi, Junaid Khan.

Category ‘B’ (3)
Ahmed Shehzad, Umar Akmal, Umar Gul.

Category ‘C’ (6)
Asad Shafiq, Azhar Ali, Adnan Akmal, Khurram Manzoor, Nasir Jamshed, Abdur Rehman

Category ‘D’ (18)
Sohaib Maqsood, Sarfraz Ahmed, Bilawal Bhatti, Sharjeel Khan, Zulfiqar Babar, Fawad Alam, Ehsan Adil, Mohammad Irfan, Wahab Riaz, Raza Hasan, Umar Amin, Haris Sohail, Rahat Ali, Shan Masood, Mohammad Talha, Anwar Ali, Yasir Shah and Sohail Khan.