Pakistan pacers Shaheen Afridi (left) and Haris Rauf reacts throughout The Hundred match between Welsh Fireplace and Oval Invincibles in London on August 6, 2023. — ECB
Unsure availability for all the event led to all Pakistani cricketers going unpicked at The Hundred 2025 participant draft which was organised on the Lord’s on Wednesday.
A complete of fifty Pakistan cricketers, together with 5 ladies, went unpicked at an upcoming event involving eight males’s and girls’s groups every.
With restricted abroad slots and a aggressive choice course of, it was not solely shocking that Aliya Riaz, Fatima Sana, Yusra Amir, Iram Javed and Jaweria Rauf remained unpicked.
Nevertheless, it was extra shocking that not even one out of 45 male Pakistani cricketers within the males’s draft have been chosen, regardless of a number of abroad slots nonetheless being accessible throughout the groups.
(Left to proper) Pakistani cricketers Naseem Shah, Saim Ayub, Fatima Sana, and Aliya Riaz. — Reuters/AFP/PCB/Instagram/@aliyariaz_official
Naseem Shah led the pack because the highest-priced Pakistani participant, with a reserve value of £120,000. In the meantime, skilled all-rounder Imad Wasim and rising star Saim Ayub had set their reserve value at £78,500.
Shadab Khan, Hasan Ali, and Mohammad Hasnain have been listed with a reserve value of £63,000. In distinction, a number of others, together with Mohammad Abbas, Haider Ali and Ammad Butt, had registered with out specifying a reserve value.
This season of The Hundred has seen a shift within the event’s panorama, with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) permitting exterior investments into franchises.
Because of this, all eight franchises have now acquired investments, with 4 of them backed by Indian Premier League (IPL) house owners.
The IPL has had an advanced relationship with Pakistani gamers. Since 2008, Pakistan gamers haven’t been allowed to take part within the league.
Nevertheless, Pakistani gamers going unpicked was not linked with the IPL affect and as a substitute as a result of their unsure availability for everything of the event, scheduled to run from August 5 to 31.
Notably, Pakistan are set to play a three-match ODI and T20I collection towards West Indies from July 31 to August 12, which is able to conflict with The Hundred’s window.
The inexperienced shirts can also organise a white-ball collection towards Bangladesh within the July-August window, which might put their gamers’ availability for The Hundred in additional doubt.
Earlier, ECB Chief Govt Richard Gould had assured final month that Pakistani cricketers wouldn’t face restrictions in The Hundred as a result of IPL affect.
“We are aware of the challenges Pakistani players face in other regions, but that won’t be happening here,” Gould said.
