PCB Postpones National U19 Championship and Cup

The cricketing body, in a brief statement, shared that the National Men’s U19 Championship, scheduled to begin today and the National Men’s U19 Cup, supposed to start on September 14, have been postponed due to “unavoidable circumstances”.

“The National U19 Championship, due to start today, and Cup, due to start on 14 September, have been postponed due to unavoidable circumstances. The new schedule of both the tournaments will be shared in due course,” stated PCB.

The two tournaments were supposed to run simultaneously. Each round of the three-day games was to be followed by the One-Day games. As such, a total of 98 matches each had to be played over a 61-day period.

Eighteen teams out of 16 regions were scheduled to participate in the tournament, whose one-day final will be held on 22 October and the three-day final from 6-9 November. Venues of the final were to be announced in due course.

The 18 regional teams would have been equally divided into three groups with the matches to be played on a single-league basis till 12 October.

The next phase would have included one-day matches between three group toppers on a single-league from 16-22 October, followed by three-day matches between the group toppers again on a single-league basis from 25 October to 9 November.

Groups

Group A (matches in Karachi): FATA, Islamabad, Karachi Whites, Larkana, Multan and Quetta regions

Group B (matches in Abbottabad, Charsada, Peshawar and Risalpur): Abbottabad, Bahawalpur, Faisalabad, Karachi Blues, Lahore Blues and Rawalpindi regions

Group C (matches in Faisalabad, Sargodha, and Sheikhupura): Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), Dera Murad Jamali (DM Jamali), Hyderabad, Lahore Whites, Peshawar and Sialkot regions.