# 2017 Pakistan Cup

The 2017 Pakistan Cup was the second edition of the Pakistan Cup, a List A cricket competition. It was held from 16 to 29 April 2017, with all the matches played at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi. It was contested between five teams, with the squads for the tournament announced on 21 March 2017. Federal Areas won the tournament, beating Balochistan by one wicket in the final.

## Squads

Prior to the start of the tournament, the following squads were announced:
| Baluchistan | Federal Areas | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | Punjab | Sindh |
| Fakhar Zaman (c) Ghulam Mudassar Bismillah Khan (wk) Imam-ul-Haq Sohaib Maqsood Saad Ali Usman Shinwari Khalid Usman Azizullah Agha Salman Aamer Yamin Sahibzada Farhan Rameez Aziz Taimur Khan Hamal Wahab | Imad Wasim (c) Hassan Khan Zohaib Ahmed Haris Sohail Sami Aslam Abid Ali (wk) Sohail Khan Mohammad Abbas Sameen Gul Mohammad Hafeez Hussain Talat Rohail Nazir Mohammad Irfan Sarmad Bhatti Abdullah Shafique | Mohammad Rizwan (c, wk) Shadab Khan Iftikhar Ahmed Israrullah Adil Amin Imran Butt Mohammad Sami Waqas Maqsood Zafar Gohar Shoaib Malik Kashif Bhatti Mohammad Naeem Taj Wali Imran Khan Nabi Gul | Umar Akmal (c) Nasir Nawaz Kamran Akmal (wk) Salman Butt Umar Amin Khushdil Shah Zulfiqar Babar Junaid Khan Bilawal Bhatti Faheem Ashraf Hammad Azam Raza Ali Dar Abdul Rehman Muzammil Saad Nasim Arsal Sheikh | Anwar Ali (c) Saif Badar Khurram Manzoor Fawad Alam Asif Zakir Zain Abbas Rumman Raees Usama Mir Mir Hamza Mohammad Nawaz Akbar-ur-Rehman Mohammad Hasan (wk) Umar Gul Saud Shakeel Hasan Mohsin |

## Group stage
### Points table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
| 1 | Baluchistan | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.079 |
| 2 | Federal Areas | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0.017 |
| 3 | Sindh | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.884 |
| 4 | Punjab | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | −0.040 |
| 5 | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | −0.931 |
Teams qualified for the final

### Fixtures

* 16 April 2017 14:00 (D/N) Scorecard
| Punjab 275 (48.5 overs) | v | Baluchistan 279/6 (48.5 overs) |
| Umar Amin 156 (142) Aamer Yamin 5/77 (9.4 overs) | | Fakhar Zaman 62 (60) Arsal Sheikh 2/26 (5 overs) |
* Baluchistan won by 4 wickets Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi Umpires: Ahsan Raza and Zameer Haider Player of the match: Aamer Yamin (Baluchistan) and Umar Amin (Punjab)
* Punjab won the toss and elected to bat.
* 17 April 2017 14:00 (D/N) Scorecard
| Federal Areas 351/5 (50 overs) | v | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 326 (49 overs) |
| Mohammad Hafeez 123 (117) Waqas Maqsood 3/68 (10 overs) | | Shoaib Malik 72 (49) Ehsan Adil 3/54 (7 overs) |
* Federal Areas won by 25 runs Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi Umpires: Ghaffar Kazmi and Zameer Haider Player of the match: Mohammad Hafeez (Federal Areas)
* Federal Areas won the toss and elected to bat.
* Nabi Gul (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) made his List A debut.
* 18 April 2017 14:00 (D/N) Scorecard
| Baluchistan 298/7 (50 overs) | v | Sindh 279/7 (50 overs) |
| Fakhar Zaman 59 (69) Mohammad Nawaz 2/49 (9 overs) | | Fawad Alam 130 (117) Aamer Yamin 2/40 (8 overs) |
* Baluchistan won by 19 runs Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi Umpires: Ahsan Raza and Ghaffar Kazmi Player of the match: Aamer Yamin (Baluchistan)
* Sindh won the toss and elected to field.
* Hasan Mohsin (Sindh) made his List A debut.
* 19 April 2017 14:00 (D/N) Scorecard
| Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 313/5 (50 overs) | v | Punjab 278 (46.3 overs) |
| Shoaib Malik 80* (54) Bilal Asif 2/46 (10 overs) | | Umar Akmal 77 (75) Imran Khan 5/57 (9.3 overs) |
* Khyber Pakhtunkhwa won by 35 runs Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi Umpires: Asif Yaqoob and Rashid Riaz Player of the match: Imran Khan (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)
* Khyber Pakhtunkhwa won the toss and elected to bat.
* Nasir Nawaz (Punjab) made his List A debut.
* 20 April 2017 14:00 (D/N) Scorecard
| Federal Areas 284/7 (50 overs) | v | Sindh 157/1 (26.2 overs) |
| Haris Sohail 117 (116) Anwar Ali 2/51 (9 overs) | | Asif Zakir 54* (67) Hassan Khan 1/20 (5 overs) |
* Sindh won by 44 runs (D/L method) Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi Umpires: Asif Yaqoob and Rashid Riaz Player of the match: Haris Sohail (Federal Areas)
* Federal Areas won the toss and elected to bat.
* Rain interrupted the match during Sindh's innings and the target was revised to 114 runs.
* 22 April 2017 14:00 Scorecard
| Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 323/5 (50 overs) | v | Baluchistan 212/3 (36 overs) |
| Iftikhar Ahmed 138* (129) Azizullah 2/75 (10 overs) | | Fakhar Zaman 73 (69) Zafar Gohar 2/48 (8 overs) |
* Baluchistan won by 4 runs (D/L method) Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi Umpires: Riazuddin and Shozab Raza Player of the match: Fakhar Zaman (Baluchistan)
* Khyber Pakhtunkhwa won the toss and elected to bat.
* Rain interrupted the match during Baluchistan's innings and the target was revised to 208 runs.
* 23 April 2017 14:00 Scorecard
| Federal Areas 236/4 (38.2 overs) | v | Punjab |
| Mohammad Hafeez 65 (77) Faheem Ashraf 1/19 (5 overs) | | |
* No result Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi Umpires: Khalid Mahmood and Riazuddin
* Punjab won the toss and elected to field.
* Rain stopped play in the 38th over of Federal Area's innings with no further play possible.
* 25 April 2017 16:00 Scorecard
| Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 192 (39.4 overs) | v | Sindh 193/2 (22.4 overs) |
| Shoaib Malik 41 (49) Umar Gul 4/44 (10 overs) | | Khurram Manzoor 118* (61) Taj Wali 1/45 (5 overs) |
* Sindh won by 8 wickets Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi Umpires: Rashid Riaz and Riazuddin Player of the match: Khurram Manzoor (Sindh)
* Khyber Pakhtunkhwa won the toss and elected to bat.
* Asad Raza (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) made his List A debut.
* 26 April 2017 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard
| Baluchistan 375/7 (50 overs) | v | Federal Areas 378/6 (47.2 overs) |
| Fakhar Zaman 104 (81) Mohammad Irfan 2/58 (7 overs) | | Sami Aslam 169 (126) Rameez Aziz 2/38 (6.3 overs) |
* Federal Areas won by 4 wickets Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi Umpires: Khalid Mahmood and Shozab Raza Player of the match: Sami Aslam (Federal Areas)
* Balochistan won the toss and elected to bat.
* 27 April 2017 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard
| Punjab 337/9 (50 overs) | v | Sindh 297 (47.4 overs) |
| Umar Amin 111 (99) Mir Hamza 4/70 (10 overs) | | Akbar-ur-Rehman 83 (92) Faheem Ashraf 5/45 (8.4 overs) |
* Punjab won by 40 runs Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi Umpires: Ahsan Raza and Riazuddin Player of the match: Umar Amin (Punjab)
* Sindh won the toss and elected to field.

## Final

* 29 April 2017 15:00 (D/N) Scorecard
| Baluchistan 323/9 (50 overs) | v | Federal Areas 327/9 (50 overs) |
| Sahibzada Farhan 112 (94) Mohammad Hafeez 3/63 (9 overs) | | Sami Aslam 109 (109) Sohail Tanvir 3/49 (10 overs) |
* Federal Areas won by 1 wicket Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi Umpires: Ahsan Raza and Riazuddin Player of the match: Sami Aslam (Federal Areas)
* Federal Areas won the toss and elected to field.