The 2016–17 Jazz National T20 Cup was a Twenty20 domestic cricket competition held in Multan, Pakistan. It took place from 25 August to 16 September 2016, with eight teams competing instead of 18 as in previous years. It was the 13th season of the National Twenty20 Cup in Pakistan.
Karachi Blues won the tournament, defeating Karachi Whites by 3 runs in the final. However, they were not invited to defend their title the following year, drawing criticism from cricketing fans on social media.
Squads The following players were selected: Karachi Blues FATA Islamabad Karachi Whites Lahore Blues Lahore Whites Peshawar Rawalpindi Khalid Latif (c) Ali Khan Bilawal Bhatti Fawad Alam Khurram Manzoor Mohammad Sami Mohammad Asghar Fazal Subhan Mohammad Waqas Rumman Raees Saifullah Bangash Saeed Ajmal Usama Mir Zohaib Shera Shahzaib Hasan Fawad Khan (c) Aamer Yamin Adnan Raees Asif Afridi Asif Ali Bilal Asif Irfanullah Shah Khushdil Shah Mohammad Imran Mohammad Irfan Usman Khan Sameen Gul Yasir Hameed Sohrab Khan Umar Siddiq Umar Gul (c) Abid Ali Abdur Rehman Ali Sarfraz Adil Amin Imad Wasim Junaid Khan Imam-ul-Haq Raheel Majeed Naeem Anjum Shahid Afridi Shehzad Azam Zohaib Ahmed Sami Aslam Sarmad Bhatti Akbar-ur-Rehman (c) Ahsan Ali Asif Zakir Azam Hussain Danish Aziz Faraz Ahmed Mir Hamza Misbah-ul-Haq Mohammad Hasan Sohail Khan Saud Shakeel Rameez Raja Tariq Haroon Tabish Khan Zain Abbas Ahmed Shehzad (c) Asif Raza Ahmed Bashir Agha Salman Faheem Ashraf Farhan Khan Hasan Ali Nauman Anwar Nasir Jamshed Muhammad Akhlaq Rahat Ali Saad Nasim Zafar Gohar Naved Yasin Raza Ali Dar Kamran Akmal (c) Amad Butt Ehsan Adil Imran Butt Hussain Talat Ayaz Tasawwar Arsal Sheikh Imran Khan Kashif Bhatti Kamran Ghulam Salman Butt Umar Akmal Zia-ul-Haq Shahid Yousuf Qaiser Ashraf Rafatullah Mohmand (c) Akbar Badshah Fakhar Zaman Anwar Ali Gauhar Ali Ghulam Mudassar Imran Khalid Imran Khan Israrullah Sohaib Maqsood Waqas Maqsood Shah Faisal Zohaib Khan Musadiq Ahmed Iftikhar Ahmed Sohail Tanvir (c) Aizaz Cheema Asif Ali Awais Zia Jamal Anwar Hammad Azam Mukhtar Ahmed Mohammad Nawaz Umar Amin Yasir Arafat Naved Malik Zeeshan Malik Zulfiqar Babar Zahid Mansoor Shadab Khan
Points table Team Peshawar7520+0.90510Lahore Whites7520+0.70010Karachi Whites7520+0.58010Karachi Blues7430−0.2368 Islamabad7340−0.5056Rawalpindi7250−0.2484Federally Administered Tribal Areas7250−0.4722Lahore Blues7250−0.6492 Team qualified for the Semi-finals
Fixtures
Round-robin
Knockout stage Semi-finals
Final
References
External links Series home at ESPN Cricinfo