Six Pakistani players will feature in this year’s edition of The Hundred tournament. Shaheen Afridi and Haris Rauf will play for Welsh Fire, while Usama Mir and Zaman Khan are part of the Manchester Originals squad.
All-rounder Shadab Khan will be in action for Birmingham Phoenix and young pacer Ihsanullah will run in for Oval Invincibles.
All of them are set to make their debut in the tournament which is in its third year and will begin on Tuesday (August 1) at Nottingham’s Trent Bridge.
On the opening day, the doubleheader men and women squads teams of Trent Rockets will be up against Southern Braves.
Trent Rockets team is the current men’s champion, while Southern Braves were the winners of the men’s competition in the inaugural edition of The Hundred. In the women’s fixtures, Oval Invincibles were the champions of both of the editions.
A total of 24 matches will be played in the tournament which will last for 4 weeks. This year the eliminator match will be played at The Oval in London instead of Ageas Bowl, Southampton while the final is set to take place at The Lords on August 27.
Although the tournament was originally planned to start in 2020 but due to covid pandemic it was postponed till 2021. More than half a million people attended the matches during the second edition of The Hundred in 2022 including a record 271,000 who attends the Women’s fixtures.—Agencies
