2016 Pakistan Cup

{{Infobox cricket tournament

| fromdate = 19 April

| todate = 1 May 2016

| administrator = Pakistan Cricket Board

| cricket format = Limited overs (List A)

| tournament format = Round-robin and final

| host = Faisalabad

| image = PakistanCup2016_logo.jpg

| size =

| champions = Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

| participants = 5

| matches = 11

| attendance =

| player of the series =

| website =

| most runs = 372 – Ahmed Shehzad (Khyber)

| most wickets = 11 – Mohammad Amir (Sindh)

| previous_year = 2014–15

| previous_tournament = 2014–15 Pentangular One Day Cup

| next_year = 2017

| next_tournament = 2017 Pakistan Cup

}}

The 2016 Pakistan Cup was a five-team limited overs (one-day) cricket tournament that took place in Faisalabad, Punjab, from 19 April to 1 May 2016. It was contested by teams representing Pakistan's four provinces and the capital. Squads for the tournament were selected based on a draft system.{{cite web|url=http://dunyanews.tv/en/Cricket/331881-Drafting-for-Pakistan-Cup-players-underway-in-Laho|title=Drafting for Pakistan Cup players underway in Lahore - Cricket - Dunya News|work=dunyanews.tv|accessdate=18 April 2016}}

Sarfraz Ahmed, Shoaib Malik, Younis Khan, Azhar Ali and Misbah-Ul-Haq led the sides from Sindh, Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and Islamabad. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa won the tournament after defeating Punjab in the final by 151 runs.http://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/sports/pakistan-cup-2016-final-match-punjab-vs-khyber-pakhtunkhwa-watch-live-score-and-live-streaming/, Daily Pakistan, 2016-05-01. Retrieved 2016-05-01.

Venue

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City	Venue	Capacity	Matches
Faisalabad, Punjab	Iqbal Stadium	28,000	11
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City

Venue

Capacity

Matches

Faisalabad, Punjab

Iqbal Stadium

28,000

11

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Squads

The teams were selected by the captain and the coach through a draft which consisted of 150 players. Each team was able to select a squad of 15 players.{{cite web|url=http://www.ptvsports.net/pakistan-cup-one-day-tournament-start-faisalabad/|title=‘Pakistan Cup’ one-day tournament to start in Faisalabad|author=PTV Sports|work=PTVSports|accessdate=18 April 2016}} The following players were selected in the draft:{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/pakistan/content/story/997071.html |title=PCB introduces new domestic one-day competition |accessdate=12 April 2016 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}}

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style="width=20%;"\| Punjab !style="width=20%;"\| Sindh !style="width=20%;"\| Balochistan !style="width=20%;"\| Islamabad !style="width=20%;"\| Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
style="vertical-align:top" \| Shoaib Malik (c) Aamer Yamin Adnan Ghaus Amad Butt Asad Shafiq Asif Ali Akbar-ur-Rehman Ehsan Adil Kashif Bhatti Mohammad Rizwan Salman Butt Shan Masood Saad Nasim Saif Badar Salman Fayyaz Zulfiqar Babar \| Sarfraz Ahmed (c) Anwar Ali Bilal Asif Fawad Alam Hassan Khan Hasan Mohsin Imad Wasim Khalid Latif Khurram Manzoor Mohammad Waqas Mohammad Amir Ruman Raees Sami Aslam Sohaib Maqsood Saad Ali Sohail Khan \| Azhar Ali (c) Awais Zia Babar Azam Bilawal Bhatti Ghulam Haider Junaid Khan Mohammad Hasan Mohammad Imran Mohammad Nawaz Ramiz Raja Shahid Yousuf Saeed Ajmal Sohail Tanvir Umar Akmal Umar Gul Usama Mir \| Misbah-ul-Haq (c) Arsal Sheikh Asif Zakir Hammad Azam Hasan Ali Iftikhar Ahmed Imran Khalid Kamran Akmal Mohammad Sami Mohammad Irfan Mohammad Abbas Nasir Jamshed Sharjeel Khan Sarmad Bhatti Shadab Khan Zafar Gohar \| Younis Khan (c) Ahmed Shehzad Azizullah Bismillah Khan Faheem Ashraf Fakhar Zaman Hayatullah Mohammad Asghar Naved Yasin Rahat Ali Musadiq Ahmed Rameez Aziz Sadaif Mehdi Sameen Gul Yasir Shah Zia-ul-Haq Zohaib Khan

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style="width=20%;"| Punjab

!style="width=20%;"| Sindh

!style="width=20%;"| Balochistan

!style="width=20%;"| Islamabad

!style="width=20%;"| Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

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Group stage

=Points table=

style="width:175px;"\|Teams ! style="width:20px;"\|{{Tooltip \| Pld \| Played}} ! style="width:20px;"\|{{Tooltip \| W \| Won}} ! style="width:20px;"\|{{Tooltip \| L \| Lost}} ! style="width:20px;"\|{{Tooltip \| NR \| No result}} ! style="width:45px;"\|{{Tooltip \| NRR \| Net run rate}} ! style="width:20px;"\| {{Tooltip \| Pts \| Points}}
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style="background:#ccffcc" \| style="text-align:left" \|Khyber Pakhtunkhwa \|4	3	1	0	+0.383	6
style="background:#ccffcc" \| style="text-align:left" \|Punjab \|4	2	2	0	+0.601	4
style="text-align:left" \|Sindh \|4	2	2	0	+0.166	4
style="text-align:left" \|Balochistan \|4	2	2	0\|
0.554	4
style="text-align:left" \|Islamabad \|4	1	3	0\|
0.740	2

Source: ESPNcricinfo{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/series/998281.html?view=pointstable|title=2016 Pakistan Cup, Points Table|publisher=ESPN Cricinfo}}

=Fixtures and results=

{{Limited overs matches

| date = 19 April 2016

| time = 15:00

| daynight = yes

| team1 = Baluchistan

| team2 = Punjab

| score1 = 215 (46.2 overs)

| runs1 = Shahid Yousuf 49 (68)

| wickets1 = Amad Butt 2/30 (6 overs)

| score2 = 203 (49 overs)

| runs2 = Mohammad Rizwan 39 (52)

| wickets2 = Azhar Ali 3/24 (5 overs)

| venue = Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad

| toss = Punjab won the toss and elected to field.

| motm = Azhar Ali (Baluchistan)

| umpires = Ahsan Raza and Khalid Mehmood

| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/998315.html Scorecard]

| result = Balochistan won by 12 runs

| notes = Ghulam Haider (Baluchistan) and Saif Badar (Punjab) both made their List A debuts.

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{{Limited overs matches

| date = 20 April 2016

| time = 15:00

| daynight = yes

| team1 = Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

| team2 = Islamabad

| score1 = 212 (46.1 overs)

| runs1 = Younis Khan 61 (59)

| wickets1 = Hammad Azam 3/23 (7 overs)

| score2 = 205/8 (42.1 overs)

| runs2 = Misbah-ul-Haq 82 (104)

| wickets2 = Zohaib Khan 3/36 (9 overs)

| venue = Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad

| toss = Khyber Pakhtunkhwa won the toss and elected to bat.

| motm = Misbah-ul-Haq (Islamabad)

| umpires = Shozab Raza and Rashid Riaz

| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/998317.html Scorecard]

| result = Islamabad won by 2 wickets (D/L method)

| notes = Shadab Khan (Islamabad) and Sameen Gul (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) both made their List A debuts.

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{{Limited overs matches

| date = 21 April 2016

| time = 15:00

| daynight = yes

| team1 = Sindh

| team2 = Baluchistan

| score1 = 266/4 (45 overs)

| runs1 = Sami Aslam 108* (120)

| wickets1 = Saeed Ajmal 2/62 (10 overs)

| score2 = 186/8 (31 overs)

| runs2 = Azhar Ali 100* (83)

| wickets2 = Mohammad Amir 2/19 (4 overs)

| venue = Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad

| toss = Sindh won the toss and elected to bat.

| motm = Khurram Manzoor (Sindh)

| umpires = Ghaffar Kazmi and Khalid Mahmood

| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/998319.html Scorecard]

| result = Sindh won by 42 runs (D/L method)

| notes = Hassan Khan (Sindh) made his List A debut.

Ahsan Raza was the onfield umpire after 40 overs.

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{{Limited overs matches

| date = 22 April 2016

| time = 15:00

| daynight = yes

| team1 = Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

| team2 = Punjab

| score1 = 262/6 (50 overs)

| runs1 = Fakhar Zaman 64 (71)

| wickets1 = Aamer Yamin 2/54 (10 overs)

| score2 = 260/7 (50 overs)

| runs2 = Salman Butt 77 (114)

| wickets2 = Rahat Ali 4/42 (10 overs)

| venue = Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad

| toss = Khyber Pakhtunkhwa won the toss and elected to bat.

| motm = Rahat Ali (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)

| umpires = Mohammad Sajid and Riazuddin

| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/998321.html Scorecard]

| result = Khyber Pakhtunkhwa won by 2 runs

| notes = Hayatullah (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) made his List A debut.

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{{Limited overs matches

| date = 23 April 2016

| time = 15:00

| daynight = yes

| team1 = Sindh

| team2 = Islamabad

| score1 = 336/6 (50 overs)

| runs1 = Khurram Manzoor 123 (90)

| wickets1 = Mohammad Irfan 2/45 (10 overs)

| score2 = 218 (39.5 overs)

| runs2 = Misbah-ul-Haq 73 (59)

| wickets2 = Bilal Asif 4/39 (10 overs)

| venue = Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad

| toss = Sindh won the toss and elected to bat.

| motm = Khurram Manzoor (Sindh)

| umpires = Ahsan Raza and Asif Yaqoob

| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/998323.html Scorecard]

| result = Sindh won by 118 runs

| notes =

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{{Limited overs matches

| date = 24 April 2016

| time = 15:00

| daynight = yes

| team1 = Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

| team2 = Baluchistan

| score1 = 246/8 (50 overs)

| runs1 = Zohaib Khan 82 (112)

| wickets1 = Umar Gul 2/34 (6 overs)

| score2 = 172 (45.1 overs)

| runs2 = Babar Azam 50 (67)

| wickets2 = Zohaib Khan 4/18 (9.1 overs)

| venue = Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad

| toss = Khyber Pakhtunkhwa won the toss and elected to bat.

| motm = Zohaib Khan (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)

| umpires = Rashid Riaz and Shozab Raza

| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/998325.html Scorecard]

| result = Khyber Pakhtunkhwa won by 74 runs

| notes = Ahmed Shehzad replaced Younis Khan as the captain of the side, after Younis Khan left the tournament because of umpiring issue.http://espncricinfo.com/pakistan/content/story/1003969.html/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160429112410/http://www.espncricinfo.com/pakistan/content/story/1003969.html |date=29 April 2016 }}, ESPN, 2016-05-01. Retrieved 2016-05-01.

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{{Limited overs matches

| date = 25 April 2016

| time = 15:00

| daynight = yes

| team1 = Punjab

| team2 = Islamabad

| score1 = 213 (43.3 overs)

| runs1 = Asad Shafiq 54 (51)

| wickets1 = Mohammad Irfan 3/34 (7.3 overs)

| score2 = 183 (46.1 overs)

| runs2 = Iftikhar Ahmed 67 (109)

| wickets2 = Amad Butt 4/34 (10 overs)

| venue = Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad

| toss = Punjab won the toss and elected to bat.

| motm = Amad Butt (Punjab)

| umpires = Ghaffar Kazmi and Khalid Mahmood

| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/998327.html Scorecard]

| result = Punjab won by 30 runs

| notes =

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{{Limited overs matches

| date = 27 April 2016

| time = 15:00

| daynight = yes

| team2 = Sindh

| team1 = Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

| score2 =312/8 (50 overs)

| runs2 =Khalid Latif 168* (129)

| wickets2 =Zia-ul-Haq 3/50 (10 overs)

| score1 =319/6 (50 overs)

| runs1 =Ahmed Shehzad 143 (135)

| wickets1 = Bilal Asif 2/46 (10 overs)

| venue = Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad

| toss = Khyber Pakhtunkhwa won the toss and elected to bat.

| motm =Ahmed Shehzad (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) and Khalid Latif (Sindh)

| umpires = Shozab Raza and Asif Yaqoob

| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/998329.html Scorecard]

| result = Khyber Pakhtunkhwa won by 7 runs

| notes = Khyber Pakhtunkhwa qualified for the final.

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{{Limited overs matches

| date = 28 April 2016

| time = 15:00

| daynight = yes

| team1 = Islamabad

| team2 = Baluchistan

| score1 = 315/8 (50 overs)

| runs1 =Kamran Akmal 134 (102)

| wickets1 =Bilawal Bhatti 3/57 (10 overs)

| score2 =317/7 (49.4 Overs)

| runs2 = Azhar Ali 80 (92)

| wickets2 =Mohammad Sami 3/63 (10 overs)

| venue = Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad

| toss = Islamabad won the toss and elected to bat.

| motm = Kamran Akmal (Islamabad)

| umpires = Ahsan Raza and Ghaffar Kazmi

| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/998331.html Scorecard]

| result = Baluchistan won by 3 wickets

| notes = Mohammad Imran (Balochistan) and Arsal Sheikh (Islamabad) both made their List A debuts.

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{{Limited overs matches

| date = 29 April 2016

| time = 15:00

| daynight = yes

| team1 = Sindh

| team2 = Punjab

| score1 = 158 (46.3 overs)

| runs1 = Fawad Alam 62 (99)

| wickets1 = Ehsan Adil 3/34 (10 overs)

| score2 = 159/5 (28 overs)

| runs2 = Shan Masood 59 (77)

| wickets2 = Mohammad Amir 2/47 (10 overs)

| venue = Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad

| toss = Sindh won the toss and elected to bat.

| motm = Shan Masood (Punjab)

| umpires = Rashid Riaz and Riazuddin

| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/998333.html Scorecard]

| result = Punjab won by 5 wickets

| notes = Punjab qualified for the final.

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Final

{{Limited overs matches

| date = 1 May 2016

| time = 15:00

| daynight = yes

| team1 = Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

| team2 = Punjab

| score1 = 311/9 (50 Overs)

| runs1 = Fakhar Zaman 115 (111)

| wickets1 = Amad Butt 3/55 (10 Overs)

| score2 = 160 (36.1 Overs)

| runs2 = Shan Masood 36 (40)

| wickets2 = Zohaib Khan 3/23 (5 Overs)

| venue = Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad

| toss = Khyber Pakhtunkhwa won the toss and elected to bat.

| motm = Fakhar Zaman (Khyber

Pakhtunkhwa)

| umpires = Ahsan Raza and Shozab Raza

| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/998335.html Scorecard]

| result = Khyber Pakhtunkhwa won by 151 runshttp://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/sports/pakistan-cup-2016-final-match-punjab-vs-khyber-pakhtunkhwa-watch-live-score-and-live-streaming/, Daily Pakistan, 2016-05-01. Retrieved 2016-05-01.

| notes = Younis Khan led his team after apologising to the PCB.http://espncricinfo.com/pakistan/content/story/1003369.html/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160429101243/http://www.espncricinfo.com/pakistan/content/story/1003369.html |date=29 April 2016 }}, ESPN, 2016-05-01. Retrieved 2016-05-01.

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References

External links

[http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/series/998281.html Series home at ESPN Cricinfo]
[http://www.pcb.com.pk/downloads/Cool%20and%20Cool%20Presents%20Haier%20Pakistan%20Cup%20One%20Day%202016.pdf Tournament Schedule at PCB website]

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