ISLAMABAD UNITED

Skipper – Mohammad Sami
Best finish – Champions (2016, 2018)
Coach – Dean Jones

Squad

Luke Ronchi, Sahibzada Farhan, Asif Ali, Hussain Talat, Faheem Ashraf, Zafar Gohar, Waqas Maqsood, Rumman Raees, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Sami (C), Ian Bell, Philip Salt, Cameron Delport, Samit Patel, Muhammad Musa, Wayne Parnell, Zahir Khan, Amad Butt, Rizwan Hussain, Nasir Nawaz.

KARACHI KINGS

Skipper – Imad Wasim
Best finish – Third (2017)
Coach – Mickey Arthur

Squad

Imad Wasim (C), Mohammad Rizwan, Babar Azam, Ravi Bopara, Usman Khan, Mohammad Amir, Colin Ingram, Colin Munro, Sikandar Raza, Awais Zia, Usama Mir, Aaron Summers, Sohail Khan, Iftikhar Ahmed, Ali Imran, Abrar Ahmed, Aamir Yamin, Jaahid Ali, Ben Dunk, Liam Livingstone.

LAHORE QALANDARS

Skipper – Mohammad Hafeez
Best finish – Bottom (2016, 2017 and 2018)
Coach – Aqib Javed

Squad

Mohammad Hafeez (C), Fakhar Zaman, Haris Sohail, AB de Villiers, Yasir Shah, Sohail Akhtar, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Rahat Ali, Agha Salman, Hassan Khan, Anton Devcich, Carlos Brathwaite, Corey Anderson, Sandeep Lamichhane, Mohammad Imran, Umair Masood, Brendan Taylor, Gohar Ali, Aizaz Cheema, Haris Rauf, David Wiese, Hardus Viljoen.

MULTAN SULTANS

Skipper – Shoaib Malik
Best finish – 2018 (Fifth)
Coach – Johan Botha

Squad

Shoaib Malik (C), Shan Masood, Umar Siddiq, Mohammad Junaid, Mohammad Irfan, Junaid Khan, Mohammad Abbas, Mohammad Irfan Khan, Shahid Afridi, Joe Denly, Johnson Charles, Qais Ahmed, Shakeel Ansar, Laurie Evans, Numan Ali, Dan Christian, Tome Moores, Ali Shafiq, Muhammad Ilyas, Andre Russell.

PESHAWAR ZALMI

Skipper – Darren Sammy
Best finish – Champions (2017)
Coach – Mohammad Akram

Squad

Darren Sammy (C), Kamran Akmal, Wahab Riaz, Hasan Ali, Sameen Gul, Khalid Usman, Umaid Asif, Liam Dawson, Misbah-ul-Haq, Kieron Pollard, Dawid Malan, Umar Amin, Sohaib Maqsood, Wayne Madsen, Nabi Gul, Jamal Anwar, Chris Jordan, Ibtisam Sheikh, Samiullah, Waqar Salamkheil.

QUETTA GLADIATORS

Skipper – Sarfraz Ahmed
Best finish – Runners-up (2016 and 2017)
Coach – Moin Khan

Squad

Sarfraz Ahmed (C), Umar Akmal, Ahmed Shehzad, Shane Watson, Rilee Rossouw, Mohammad Nawaz, Anwar Ali, Mohammad Azam Khan, Saud Shakeel, Sunil Narine, Sohail Tanvir, Dwayne Bravo, Fawad Ahmed, Jalat Khan, Mohammad Asghar, Danish Aziz, Ahsan Ali, Ghulam Mudassar, Naseem Shah, Harry Gurney.

The 2018 Mzansi Super League is the inaugural edition of the Mzansi Super League (MSL) Twenty20 (T20) franchise cricket tournament, to be held in South Africa. It is scheduled to start on 16 November and finish on 16 December 2018.[1] Six teams are scheduled to take part, playing a total of thirty-two matches. A players’ draft took place on 17 October 2018, with more than 200 international players expressing their interest to take part. On 18 October 2018, it was announced that Global Sports Commerce (GSC) would be the official international commercial and broadcast partner from 2018 up to 2022. On 30 October 2018 it was announced that the Mzansi Super League 2018 champions will receive prize money of R 7 million and the runners up will receive R 2.5 million, the player of the tournament will receive R 100 000, and each man of the match will pocket R 15 000.

New Zealand’s top level one-day domestic cricket competition Ford Trophy 2018/19 is scheduled to be held from 24th October to 1st December 2018 which is a six-team competition. These six teams are Auckland Aces, Canterbury, Central Stags, Northern Districts, Otago Volts and Wellington Firebirds. Total 32 matches to be played including the final in 11 venues of Invercargill, Whangarei, Auckland, Hamilton, New Plymouth, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, Lincoln and Dunedin. These venues include many of New Zealand’s favorite cricket venues like Eden Park Outer Oval and Pukekura Park. The 11 venues are:

Saxton Oval, Nelson
Basin Reserve, Wellington
Eden Park Outer Oval, Auckland
Seddon Park, Hamilton
Pukekura Park, New Plymouth
Hagley Oval, Christchurch
University of Otago Oval, Dunedin
BSO, Lincoln University
Lincoln No. 3, Lincoln University
Queen’s Park, Invercargill
Cobham Oval, Whangarei

New Zealand’s national men’s one-day cricket competition starts on Wednesday this week. The six-team competition to be played in eight rounds, then a series of Finals playoffs before the Grand Final. Two extra rounds have been added to this season. Recent Blackcaps are probable to be in action for the teams and also few new players will be future Blackcaps for sure.

Auckland Aces, the defending champions who defeated the Central Stags in last summer’s Grand Final will be trying to hit Northern Districts out of the park at Eden Park Outer Oval where many sixes are expected to be hit as usual. The Central Stags will play their opening match against Otago Volts at Nelson’s beautiful Saxton Oval. Auckland Aces and Central Stags are the two teams who have dominated The Ford Trophy over the past decade and they both will play their first match at their home ground. The Auckland Aces won the title in 2010/11 and 2012/13 including the last season and, with 11 championship wins since the start of the format in 1970s, they are closing the gap on Canterbury who hold the New Zealand record with 14.
Canterbury’s most recent win was two seasons ago, when they were joyful to defeat the Wellington Firebirds in the Grand Final at Rangiora. It broke a long title shortage period for Canterbury.

Canterbury got into the Grand Final the previous summer but lost the match to the Central Stags at Pukekura Park that year. The Central Stags became back-to-back champions and have won three trophies in the last 10 years. Losing at home in Taranaki last summer to the Auckland Aces was a painful blow for the Central Stags after having lost the Burger King Super Smash Grand Final to the Knights last season. If the team can bash their way into another Grand Final this summer, they will be very eager to put those bad memories behind them and show they can step up under pressure.

Central Stags have a new-look side and a debut captain in Doug Bracewell, after 2015/16 title-winning captain Will Young decided to step down to concentrate on his batting. Like regular Stags stars Tom Bruce, George Worker, Blair Tickner, Ajaz Patel and even coach Heinrich Malan, Young is currently away representing New Zealand A in the United Arab Emirates. With a home New Zealand A Series to follow here in New Zealand next month, against India A, it’s likely to impact a few sides with their regular matchwinners away. That means great opportunities for the next wave of players to make a real name for themselves, as we’ve seen already in the first two rounds of Plunket Shield this summer.
The one-day game has really evolved in New Zealand over the past few years, with the introduction of T20 showing its influence in hard hitting and aggressive white-ball bowling. But the 50-over format and power play rules also introduce more strategy and fightbacks over the course of the game. It’s going to be entertaining for sure.

Previous Winners

2017/18 Auckland Aces
2016/17 Canterbury
2015/16 Central Stags
2014/15 Central Stags
2013/14 Wellington Firebirds
2012/13 Auckland Aces
2011/12 Central Stags
2010/11 Auckland Aces
2009/10 Northern Districts