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Pakistan Cricket Board launches national team’s kit for T20 World Cup 2024
Pakistani players pose for a picture showcasing national team’s kit for the upcoming T20 World Cup 2024 in Karachi, Pakistan on May 6, 2024. (PCB)
Pakistan will take part in T20 World Cup 2024 scheduled to kick off in United States on June 2
Green shirts will play separate T20I series against Ireland, England this month to prepare for mega event
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) this week launched the national team’s kit for the upcoming T20 World Cup 2024, scheduled to kick off next month in the United States and West Indies.
Cricket boards launch their national team’s kit before mega tournaments such as the World Cup. At a ceremony held in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore on Monday night, PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi launched the Pakistan team’s “Matrix Jersey” at the Qaddafi Stadium.
“Unveiled the new kit of Pakistan Cricket team!” Naqvi wrote on social media platform X. “Team Pakistan’s Green Matrix jersey is more than just a uniform; it’s a symbol of unity, representing every culture, and individual that makes up the rich fabric of our nation.”
| Unveiled the new kit of Pakistan Cricket team! Team Pakistan’s Green Matrix jersey is more than just a uniform; it’s a symbol of unity, representing every culture, and individual that makes up the rich fabric of our nation. pic.twitter.com/wCG3yiAonu — Mohsin Naqvi (@MohsinnaqviC42) May 6, 2024 |
The PCB chairman uploaded a video with his post in which star cricketers Babar Azam, Muhammad Rizwan, Shaheen Shah Afridi and Naseem Shah can be seen with the PCB chairman checking out the new jerseys.
Skipper Azam and his squad have left for Dubai from where they will travel to Ireland and England to play two separate T20I series. Pakistan will play three T20Is against Ireland in Dublin from May 12-14 before they take on 2022 World Champions England from May 22-30 in a four-match series.
The series will be an important one for Pakistan as the team prepares for the T20 World Cup scheduled to kick off from June 2 in the US and West Indies.
Pakistan have a strong bowling line-up in the form of fast bowler Mohammad Amir, who played in two T20s against New Zealand after ending his retirement, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Naseem Shah and Abbas Afridi.
Under Babar, Pakistan has done well in the last two T20 World Cups, reaching the semifinals in 2021 at the United Arab Emirates and losing to England in the final at the 2022 tournament in Australia.
Naqvi has promised a cash award of $100,000 to every player if the team wins the tournament.
Source: Arab News
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), in a joint effort with Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), has deferred the leftover two 50-over matches of the continuous Pakistan Shaheens-Sri Lanka A series because of political movement in Islamabad.
Initially booked for Wednesday and Friday at the Rawalpindi Cricket Arena, the matches have been conceded, with the two sheets set to cooperate to choose new dates for finishing the series.
PCB’s Chairman Mohsin Naqvi likewise fills in as the country’s Inside Pastor who is active managing the developing turmoil in the country’s capital making the cricketing circumstance more convoluted.
PCB has not expressed how it will turn the Shaheens and Sri Lanka A series getting dropped during ICC’s impending crisis meeting to decide the destiny of the Heroes Prize one year from now.
Rawalpindi is set to be one of the three host urban communities for the opposition and the ongoing political environment might reinforce BCCI’s offered to remove the facilitating freedoms from Pakistan.
The Pakistan Shaheens at present lead the series, having gotten a 1-0 triumph in the two-match four-day design and guaranteeing a directing 108-run prevail upon in the initial 50 experience on Monday.
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