2023–24 National T20 Cup

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2023–24 National T20 Cup

Dates	24 November – 10 December 2023
Administrator(s)	Pakistan Cricket Board
Cricket format	Twenty20
Tournament format(s)	Group stage and knockout
Host(s)	Pakistan
Champions	Karachi Whites (2nd title)
Runners-up	Abbottabad
Participants	18
Matches	63
Player of the series	Iftikhar Ahmed (395 runs and 18 wickets)
Most runs	Sahibzada Farhan (492 runs)
Most wickets	Shahab Khan (25 wickets)
Official website	National T20 Cup
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The 2023–24 National T20 Cup was a Twenty20 domestic cricket competition played in Pakistan. It was the 20th season of the National T20 Cup, with the tournament starting from 24 November 2023 and the final being played on 10 December 2023.^[1] Sindh were the defending champions, winning the 2022-23 edition.^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

National T20 2023-24 began from 24 November and lasted until 10 December. 18 teams took part in the tournament which was played across four venues – National Bank Stadium, UBL Sports Complex, HPC Oval Ground and NBP Sports Complex – in Karachi.

All matches played at National Bank Stadium were broadcast on PTV Sports and ARY ZAP in Pakistan, and live-streamed on YouTube in overseas territories. Double-header matches at National Bank Stadium began at 15:00 PKT and 20:00 PKT, with toss conducted at 14:30 PKT and 19:30 PKT respectively.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced free entry for spectators for all matches being played at National Bank Stadium. The Hanif Mohammad, Javed Miandad and Fazal Mahmood enclosures were accessible for spectators.

The 63-match tournament was structured to open with group stage games, which were to be followed by Super Eight matches. A total of 32 group stage matches were played from 24 to 28 November. 18 participating teams were put in four groups.

The first set of fixtures saw Lahore Whites face Larkana and Karachi Blues face Peshawar at NBP Sports Complex in Group A. In Group B, Karachi Whites played against Islamabad and Hyderabad played against DM Jamali at UBL Sports Complex. Rawalpindi took on Abbottabad and Faisalabad faced Bahawalpur at National Bank Stadium for Group C and lastly, for group D, HPC Oval Ground hosted the Multan-Sialkot clash and FATA-AJK game.

The top two teams from each group progressed to the Super Eight stage, which was played in a round-robin format from 1 to 8 December.

Following the Super Eight stage, the top four teams qualified for the semi-finals. Both semi-finals were played on 9 December at National Bank Stadium, at 15:00 PKT and 20:00 PKT respectively. The final was played at the same venue on 10 December. The toss took place at 19:30 PKT and the first ball was bowled at 20:00 PKT.

Karachi Whites won the 2023–24 National T20 Cup by defeating Abbottabad by nine runs in the final. The match was held at National Bank Stadium, Karachi.^[6]

This was the first edition of the tournament played since the PCB 2014 Constitution was reinstated. The previous edition of National T20, which featured six sides, was won by Sindh who clinched their maiden title after defeating defending champions Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by eight wickets. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa lost out on securing a hat-trick of titles after winning both the 2020-21 and 2021-22 editions.

The 18 qualifying teams were divided into four groups of five, with the top two teams in each group advancing to the Super 8 round. In this stage, the qualifying teams were split into one group of 8. The top four teams in the Super 8 qualified for the knockout stage, which consisted of two semi-finals and a final.^[7]

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Karachi Blues Lahore Whites Larkana Peshawar Quetta	Hyderabad Dera Murad Jamali Islamabad Karachi Whites Lahore Blues	Abbottabad Bahawalpur Faisalabad Rawalpindi	Azad Jammu & Kashmir FATA Multan Sialkot

Karachi Blues	Lahore Whites	Larkana	Peshawar	Quetta
Saifullah Bangash (c & †) Jahanzaib Sultan Mohammad Taha Kashif Ali Hasan Mohsin Saqib Khan Arish Ali Khan Afnan Khan Bahadur Ali Abdur Rehman Mohammad Asghar Rumman Raees Fazal Subhan Syed Waleed Azeem Arbaz Khan	Saad Nasim (c) Ahmed Shehzad Tayyab Tahir Ali Zaryab Muhammad Akhlaq (†) Saad Khan Umar Akmal Ahmed Bashir Ahmed Daniyal Mohammad Amir Khan Mohammad Naveed Muneeb Wasif Mohammad Irfan Mohammad Ramiz Jnr Kamran Afzal	Zahid Mehmood (c) Umar Khalid Israr-ul-Haq Mohammad Aqeel Ghulam Raza Mohsin Ali Mohsin Raza (†) Sabit Ali Mushtaq Ahmed Imtiaz Ali Asif Ali Jnr Ali Haider Faraz Aziz Ali Asghar Mehrooz Ali Mohammad Umar	Iftikhar Ahmed (c) Sahibzada Farhan Adil Amin Israrullah Maaz Ahmad Sadaqat Nabi Gul Aamer Azmat Imran Khan Mohammad Imran Mohammad Ilyas Abbas Afridi Niaz Khan Sajid Khan Usman Tariq Azam Khan Mohammad Haris (†)	Jalat Khan (c) Bismillah Khan (†) Abdul Bangalzai Gohar Faiz Abdul Hanan Najeebullah Syed Zainullah Mohammad Javed Nadeem Ahmed Salahuddin Obaid Ullah Sanaullah Faheem Rasheed Bakhtiar Shah Bohir Aman

Dera Murad Jamali	Hyderabad	Islamabad	Karachi Whites	Lahore Blues
Nasir Khan (c) Basit Ali Usama Khalil Zubair Khan Mengal Mohammad Deen Mohammad Ayaz Abdul Rauf Shoaib Ahmed (†) Fahad Hussain Hidayatullah Saleem Mal Zahoor Ahmed Mohammad Shahid Mohammad Ikram Aftab Ahmed	Rizwan Mehmood (c) Mohammad Suleman Salman Khan Tayyab Ali Shah Daniyal Hussain Rajput Fardeen Sheikh Rao Sajid Akbar Khan (†) Mustafa Nasir Asim Jutt Jawad Ali Asad Malik Majid Asghar Sher Afzal Zulfiqar Ali	Haris Rauf (c) Rohail Nazir (†) Sarmad Bhatti Ali Imran Hassan Nawaz Sudais Ulfat Muhammad Musa Mohammad Arham Umair Afridi Arsal Sheikh Shayan Sheikh Mohammad Hammad Salman Khan Hammad Siddique Azan Tariq Farmanullah Khan (削除) Imad Wasim (削除ここまで)	Asad Shafiq (c) Ziaullah Ammad Alam Omair Bin Yousuf Khurram Manzoor Danish Aziz Azam Khan (†) Mohammad Hasan (†) Habibullah Sohail Khan Ghulam Mudassar Aftab Ibrahim Anwar Ali Ashir Qureshi Arif Yaqoob	Hussain Talat (c) Imran Butt Umar Siddiq Rizwan Hussain Nisar Ahmed Junaid Ali (†) Shawaiz Irfan (†) Mohammad Waheed Hunain Shah Umaid Asif Asfand Mehran Kashif Bhatti Salman Irshad Qasim Akram Hashim Ibraheem

Abbottabad	Bahawalpur	Faisalabad	Rawalpindi
Yasir Shah (c) Sajjad Ali (†) Afaq Ahmed Anees Azam Mohammad Arif Khalid Usman Aitizaz Habib Khan Mehroz Rasheed Israr Hussain Fayyaz Khan Aqib Khan Ahmed Khan Adil Naz Khayyam Khan Fakhar Zaman Kamran Ghulam Arshad Iqbal	Mohammad Junaid (c) Ali Imran Mohammad Sudais Mohammad Faizan Zafar Mohammad Wasim Bhatti Mohammad Shahrivar Abdul Hadi (†) Mohammad Naveed Yousaf Aun Shehzad Mohammad Shahid Mirani Husnain Majid Mohammad Asif Ali Mohammad Adeel Ur Rehman Shayan Khalil Syed Khurram Ali Shah	Asif Ali (c) Mohammad Shehzad Irfan Khan Abdul Samad Abubakar Khan Ali Shan (†) Taimoor Sultan Muhammad Faizan Mohammad Saleem Waqas Maqsood Sadaqat Ali Asad Raza Arham Nawab Ahmed Safi Abdullah Bilal Mehdi	Shadab Khan (c) Umar Amin (vc) Abdul Faseeh Nasir Nawaz Rehman Khan Mubasir Khan Zeeshan Malik Umair Masood Raza-ul-Mustafa (†) Sheraz Khan Mohammad Faizan Jahandad Khan Mehran Mumtaz Umer Khan Haider Ali Yasir Khan Zaman Khan Kashif Ali

Azad Jammu & Kashmir	FATA	Multan	Sialkot
Naveed Malik (c) Nadeem Khalil Usman Maroof Mohammad Haider Syed Hashim Shah Syed Faraz Faizan Saleem Basit Ali Raja Farhan Khan (†) Daniyal Allah Ditta Amir Hamza Usman Yousaf Aqib Liaqat Awais Akram Mohammad Shehzad	Khushdil Shah (c) Usman Shinwari Salman Khan (†) Kashif Noor Azaz Khan Asif Ali Mohammad Sarwar Mohammad Riaz Rehan Afridi (†) Asif Afridi Maaz Khan Irfanullah Shah Akif Javed Shahid Aziz Samiullah Jnr	Sharoon Siraj (c) Zain Abbas Haseebullah Khan (†) Aamer Yamin Mohammad Imran Mohammad Shehzad Sharjeel Khan Sohaib Maqsood Mohammad Sadaqat Tahir Hussain Ali Usman Zeeshan Ashraf Sirajuddin Faisal Akram Ali Majid	Shoaib Malik (c) Mohammad Huraira Bilal Asif Usman Khalid Amad Butt Mirza Tahir Baig Salman Khan (†) Ashir Mehmood Zaki Shaz Khan Mohammad Abbas Sohaibullah Asad Ali Hamza Nazar Shoaib Akhtar

The group stage will consist of four groups of five teams, played as a single round-robin format. The top two teams in each group will progress to the Super 8 stage.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR	Qualification
1	Peshawar	4	3	1	0	6	2.713	Advanced to Super 8s
2	Lahore Whites	4	3	1	0	6	1.368
3	Karachi Blues	4	3	1	0	6	1.110
4	Larkana	4	1	3	0	2	−3.062
5	Quetta	4	0	4	0	0	−2.292

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR	Qualification
1	Lahore Blues	4	4	0	0	8	0.223	Advanced to Super 8s
2	Karachi Whites	4	3	1	0	6	1.165
3	Islamabad	4	2	2	0	4	−0.055
4	Dera Murad Jamali	4	1	3	0	2	−0.321
5	Hyderabad	4	0	4	0	0	−0.878

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR	Qualification
1	Rawalpindi	3	3	0	0	6	1.144	Advanced to Super 8s
2	Abbottabad	3	2	1	0	4	1.165
3	Faisalabad	3	1	2	0	2	−0.085
4	Bahawalpur	3	0	3	0	0	−2.492

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR	Qualification
1	Sialkot	3	2	1	0	4	2.347	Advanced to Super 8s
2	FATA	3	2	1	0	4	0.804
3	Multan	3	2	1	0	4	0.380
4	Azad Jammu & Kashmir	3	0	3	0	0	−2.881

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After the group stage, the top two teams in each group will progress to the Super 8 stage which will be played as a single round-robin with the top four teams advancing to the knockout stage.^{[8] [9] [10]}

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR	Qualification
1	Peshawar	7	7	0	0	14	2.124	Advanced to knockout stage
2	Karachi Whites	7	5	2	0	10	0.934
3	Abbottabad	7	5	2	0	10	0.444
4	Rawalpindi	7	4	3	0	8	−1.004
5	Lahore Blues	7	2	5	0	4	0.239
6	Sialkot	7	2	5	0	4	−0.717
7	Lahore Whites	7	2	5	0	4	−1.245
8	FATA	7	1	6	0	2	−0.766

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Player	Team	Runs
Sahibzada Farhan	Peshawar	492
Kamran Ghulam	Abbottabad	451
Sajjad Ali	Abbottabad	442
Omair Yousuf	Karachi Whites	401
Iftikhar Ahmed	Peshawar	395

• Source: ESPNcricinfo

Player	Team	Wickets
Shahab Khan	Abbottabad	25
Sohail Khan	Karachi Whites	22
Arif Yaqoob	Karachi Whites	21
Mohammad Imran	Peshawar	20
Iftikhar Ahmed	Peshawar	18

• Source: ESPNcricinfo

Name	Team	Award	Prize
Iftikhar Ahmed	Peshawar	Player of the Tournament	Rs. 250,000 (US870ドル)
Sahibzada Farhan	Peshawar	Batsman of the tournament	Rs. 250,000 (US870ドル)
Shahab Khan	Abbottabad	Bowler of the tournament	Rs. 250,000 (US870ドル)
Sajjad Ali	Abbottabad	Wicket-keeper of the tournament	Rs. 250,000 (US870ドル)

• Source: PCB ^[11]

The winning team of the tournament received a prize money of PKR 5 million while the runners-up were awarded PKR 2.5 million.

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