The Pakistan National Side is a popular cricket team in Asia and worldwide. Also, in the ICC official team rankings, the Pakistan team is amongst the top 10 teams across Test, ODI, and T20I formats. Regarding the Pakistan Cricket Central Contracts 2025, here are the details of the players who will represent Pakistan in the upcoming competition.
Currently, the Pakistan team has different captains for the respective cricket formats. Shan Masood in Test, Salman Ali Gha in T20I, and Mohammad Rizwan in ODI will lead the Pakistan National side. Earlier, Babar Azam used to lead Pakistan in all the formats: Test, ODI, and T20I.
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Recently, Pakistan hosted the prestigious ICC Champions Trophy 2025 after a long time. However, the Pakistan team was knocked out of the tournament and did not qualify for the semi-final. Before that, the Pakistan team lifted the trophy of the ICC Champions Trophy 2017.
Pakistan Cricket Central Contracts 2025: Complete list of players
PCB officially released the complete list of players who will represent the national team. These players are classified into A, B, C, and D categories and will receive PCB contracts according to these categories. Make sure you go through the complete list and details of the PCB contract 2025 below.
Category A Contract:
This is PCB’s highest contract. Players receive a whopping PKR 7.5 million salary. In this category, the player who represents the team in all three formats and provides the most contribution is selected. Usually, the captains are included in PCB’s Category A contract.
• Babar Azam and Mohammed Rizwan
Category B Contract:
The salary of the players in the B Category Contract is PKR 3 million. Therefore, the player who played the most matches and consistently performed for the team will be included in the list. Also, players representing two or more formats will be included.
• Naseem Shah, Shaheen Shah Afridi, and Shan Mahsood
Category C Contract:
PCB provides a PKR 1 million salary to players on the C Category contract, which is also the lowest category. The list includes the national players who play the most in one format and represent the team very few times in other formats.
• Shadab Khan, Salman Ali Gha, Saim Ayub, Haris Rauf, Abdullah Shafique, Saud Shakeel, Sajid Khan, Noman Ali, Abrar Ahmed.
Category D Contract:
The lowest PCB contract includes mostly newcomers and players likely to represent Pakistan. Some players who represent Pakistan less frequently are part of the D Category Contract. The players included in the Category D Contract will receive PKR 7,50,000.
• Usman Khan, Irfan Khan, Mohammad Hurraira, Mohammad Abbas Afridi, Khurram Shahazad, Haseebullah, Mohammad Wasim Jr., Mohammad Ali, Mir Hamza, Kamran Ghulam, Aamir Janal.
