2011–12 National T20 Cup

The 2011–12 Faysal Bank T20 Cup was the eighth season of the Faysal Bank T20 Cup in Pakistan, sponsored by Faysal Bank. The season was to begin in the final week of September in Lahore but due to an outbreak of dengue fever, the tournament was shifted to Karachi.^[1] The winning team received ₨ 2.5 million as prize money, while the runners-up received ₨ 1 million.^[2]

2011–12 National T20 Cup

Dates	25 September – 2 October 2011
Administrator(s)	Pakistan Cricket Board
Cricket format	Twenty20
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin and knockout
Host(s)	Karachi
Champions	Sialkot Stallions (6th title)
Participants	14
Matches	21
Player of the series	N/A
Most runs	Yasir Hameed (218)
Most wickets	Mohammad Rameez (10)
← 2010–11 2012–13 →

Venue

21 matches were played at National Stadium, Karachi.

City	Venue	Capacity	Matches
Karachi, Sindh	National Stadium	34,228	21
National Stadium, Karachi

Squads

List of cricketers who represented their teams.^[3]

Group A

Abbottabad Falcons[4] Younus Khan (c) Abdul Manan Adnan Raees Asif Afridi Ahmed Jamal Fawad Khan (wk) Ghulam Mohammad Junaid Khan Khalid Usman Khurshid Anwar Mir Azam Nabeeullah Rehan Afridi Sajjad Ali Sohail Akthar Wajid Ali Yasir Hameed Yasir Shah

Karachi Zebras[5] Faisal Iqbal (c) Adnan Baig (wk) Akbar-ur-Rehman Anwar Ali Asif Zakir Atif Maqbool Azam Hussain Danish Kaneria Farhan Iqbal Hasan Raza Khurram Manzoor Mohammad Waqas Rameez Aziz Sheharyar Ghani Tabish Khan Tahir Khan Uzair-ul-Haq Wajihuddin

Lahore Eagles[6] Imran Farhat (c) Abid Ali Adnan Akmal Ali Azmat Asif Ashfaq Asif Raza Azhar Ali Emmad Ali Hamza Paracha Junaid Zia Kamran Sajid Kashif Mahmood Mohammad Hamza Mustafa Iqbal Saad Nasim Taufeeq Umar Waqas Aslam Wasif Butt

Quetta Bears[7] Bismillah Khan (c/wk) Abid Ali Arun Lal Faizullah Fareed-ud-din Gul Mohammad Imran Khan Matiullah Khan Mir Wais Mohammad Asif Mohammad Zahir Mohibullah Munir Ahmed Nasrullah Khan Saeed Khan Sher Hasan Taimur Khan Taimur Siddiq

Group B

Afghan Cheetahs[8] Mohammad Nabi (c) Abdullah Fazal Niyazai Gulbudeen Naib Hamid Hassan Karim Sadiq Mohammad Sami Najibullah Zadran Najib Taraki Nasim Khan Qasim Khan Samiullah Shenwari Sayed Shirzad Yamin Ahmadzai Abdullah Adil Abdur Mangal Afsar Zazai Nawab Khan Rahmat Shah

Faisalabad Wolves[9] Misbah-ul-Haq (c) Abdur Rauf Asad Ali Asif Ali Asif Hussain Imran Khalid Jahandad Khan Khurram Shehzad Mohammad Hafeez Mohammad Salman (wk) Mohammad Shahid Mohammad Talha Naved Latif Sabir Hussain Saeed Ajmal Shahid Muzaffar (wk) Shahid Nazir Waqas Maqsood

Multan Tigers[10] Shabbir Ahmed (c) Ansar Javed Bilal Khilji (wk) Faisal Elahi Gulraiz Sadaf Haziq Habibullah Kamran Hussain Mohammad Irfan Mohammad Irshad Mohammad Sami Mohammad Zahid Moinuddin Naved Yasin Taimur Ahmed Zain Abbas Zulfiqar Babar

Rawalpindi Rams[11] Sohail Tanvir (c) Adil Zarif Adnan Mufti Awais Zia Babar Naeem Hammad Azam Jamal Anwar (wk) Mohammad Nawaz Mohammad Rameez Mohammad Saleem Nasir Malik Naved Malik Sadaf Hussain Samiullah Tahir Mughal Umar Amin Yasim Murtaza Zahid Mansoor

Group C

Hyderabad Hawks[12] Azeem Ghumman (c) Aqeel Anjum Faisal Athar Ghulam Yasin Jamshed Baig Kashif Pervez Lal Kumar Mansoor Malik Mir Ali Naeem-ur-Rehman Nasir Awais Nauman Ali Rizwan Ahmed Shahid Qambrani Shahzad Haider Sharjeel Khan Suleman Baloch Zahid Mahmood

Lahore Lions[13] Abdul Razzaq (c) Aamer Hayat Adnan Rasool Ahmed Shehzad Aizaz Cheema Asif Yousuf Imran Ali Jahangir Mirza Jamshed Ahmed Kamran Akmal (wk) Muzaffar Mahboob Nasir Jamshed Raza Ali Dar Sohail Ahmed Tanzeel Altaf Umar Akmal Usman Malik Wahab Riaz

Sialkot Stallions[14] Shoaib Malik (c) Abdur Rehman Ali Khan Faisal Naved Haris Sohail Imran Nazir Kamran Younis Mansoor Amjad Mohammad Ayub Rana Naved-ul-Hasan Naved Arif Qaiser Abbas Raza Hasan Rizwan Sultan Sarfraz Ahmed Shahid Yousuf Shakeel Ansar (wk) Yasir Aziz

Group D

Karachi Dolphins[15] Shahid Afridi (c) Asad Shafiq Ashraf Ali Faraz Ahmed Fawad Alam Fazal Subhan Haaris Ayaz Javed Mansoor Khalid Latif Misbah Khan Mohammad Sami Rameez Raja Rumman Raees Sarfraz Ahmed (wk) Shahzaib Hasan Sohail Khan Tanvir Ahmed Tariq Haroon

Islamabad Leopards[16] Iftikhar Anjum (c) Adnan Ijaz Afaq Raheem Ashar Zaidi Imad Wasim Junaid Nadir Kamran Hussain Moed Ahmed Naeem Anjum (wk) Nasrullah Khan Nauman Masood Raheel Majeed Rizwan Malik Sajid Ali Sarmad Bhatti Shan Masood Umair Khan Zohaib Ahmed

Peshawar Panthers[17] Umar Gul (c) Aftab Alam Akbar Badshah Fawad Ali Gauhar Ali (wk) Iftikhar Ahmed Israrullah Jamaluddin Khadim Jan Mohammad Fayyaz Musadiq Ahmed Nasir Ahmed Nauman Habib Nawaz Ahmed Noor-ul-Amin Rafatullah Mohmand Shoaib Khan Zohaib Khan

Results

Teams and standings

The top team from each group qualify for the semi-finals. The top two teams from each group qualify for the 2012 Faysal Bank Super Eight T20 Cup.

Group A

Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR
Lahore Eagles	3	3	0	0	6	+0.773
Karachi Zebras	3	2	1	0	4	+0.55
Abbottabad Falcons	3	1	2	0	2	+1.234
Quetta Bears	3	0	3	0	0	−2.558

Group B

Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR
Rawalpindi Rams	3	3	0	0	6	+4.950
Faisalabad Wolves	3	2	1	0	4	+1.000
Multan Tigers	3	1	2	0	2	−0.945
Afghan Cheetahs	3	0	3	0	0	−0.533

Group C

Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR
Sialkot Stallions	2	2	0	0	4	+0.674
Lahore Lions	2	1	1	0	2	+1.703
Hyderabad Hawks	2	0	2	0	0	−1.920

Group D

Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR
Peshawar Panthers	2	2	0	0	4	+1.339
Karachi Dolphins	2	1	1	0	2	+0.658
Islamabad Leopards	2	0	2	0	0	−2.012

  Qualified for semifinals

Knockout stage

	Semifinals					Finals
	A1	Lahore Eagles	167
	C1	Sialkot Stallions	171/4
						C1	Sialkot Stallions	180/6
						B1	Rawalpindi Rams	170/8
	B1	Rawalpindi Rams	168
	D1	Peshawar Panthers	91

Fixtures

Group stage

Group A

25 September 12:00 Scorecard

Abbottabad Falcons 190/2 (20 overs)	v	Quetta Bears 118/8 (20 overs)
Yasir Hameed 101 (65) Sher Hasan 1/33 (4 overs)		Abid Ali 42 (46) Junaid Khan 3/24 (4 overs)

Abbottabad Falcons won by 72 runs National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Masood Khan and Nadeem Ghauri Player of the match: Junaid Khan

• Quetta Bears won the toss and chose to field
• Matiullah Khan, Mohibullah and Sher Hasan (Quetta Bears) all made their T20 debuts.

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25 September 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard

Lahore Eagles 143/6 (20 overs)	v	Karachi Zebras 141/7 (20 overs)
Ali Azmat 36* (37) Danish Kaneria 2/26 (4 overs)		Hasan Raza 49 (54) Saad Nasim 2/32 (4 overs)

Lahore Eagles won by 2 runs National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Kaukab Butt and Tahir Shah Player of the match: Hasan Raza

• Lahore Eagles won the toss and chose to bat
• Rameez Aziz (Karachi Zebras); Hamza Paracha and Mustafa Iqbal (Lahore Eagles) all made their T20 debuts.

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26 September 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard

Karachi Zebras 172/5 (20 overs)	v	Quetta Bears 128 (18.3 overs)
Khurram Manzoor 62 (52) Arun Lal 2/53 (4 overs)		Fareed-ud-din 24 (18) Danish Kaneria 3/23 (3.3 overs)

Karachi Zebras won by 45 runs National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Ijaz Ahmed and Nadeem Ghauri Player of the match: Khurram Manzoor

• Karachi Zebras won the toss and chose to bat

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26 September 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard

Lahore Eagles 150/4 (20 overs)	v	Abbottabad Falcons 135 (19.3 overs)
Imran Farhat 43 (31) Wajid Ali 2/7 (2 overs)		Yasir Hameed 44 (42) Junaid Zia 2/9 (3.3 overs)

Lahore Eagles won by 15 runs National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Akbar Khan and Shakeel Khan Player of the match: Taufeeq Umar

• Lahore Eagles won the toss and chose to bat
• Waqas Aslam (Lahore Eagles) made his T20 debut.

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27 September 12:00 Scorecard

Lahore Eagles 129/1 (16.1 overs)	v	Quetta Bears 125 (20 overs)
Imran Farhat 50 (33) Abid Ali 1/21 (3 overs)		Mir Wais 30 (36) Junaid Zia 2/17 (4 overs)

Lahore Eagles won by 9 wickets National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Riazuddin and Shakeel Khan Player of the match: Imran Farhat

• Quetta Bears won the toss and chose to bat
• Gul Mohammad and Mohammad Asif (Quetta Bears) both made their T20 debuts.

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27 September 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard

Karachi Zebras 160/4 (20 overs)	v	Abbottabad Falcons 158/7 (20 overs)
Hasan Raza 74 (50) Khalid Usman 2/33 (4 overs)		Yasir Hameed 73 (51) Danish Kaneria 3/30 (4 overs)

Karachi Zebras won by 6 wickets National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Ahmed Shahab and Nadeem Ghauri

• Abbottabad Falcons won the toss and chose to bat

Group B

28 September 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard

Faisalabad Wolves 161/7 (20 overs)	v	Multan Tigers 107/9 (20 overs)
Asif Ali 44 (35) Kamran Hussain 2/21 (4 overs)		Gulraiz Sadaf 32 (31) Saeed Ajmal 3/5 (4 overs)

Faisalabad Wolves won by 54 runs National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Ahsan Raza and Shozab Raza Player of the match: Saeed Ajmal

• Faisalabad Wolves won the toss and chose to bat
• Waqas Maqsood (Faisalabad Wolves); Mohammad Sami, Mohammad Zahid and Moinuddin (Multan Tigers) all made their T20 debuts.

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28 September 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard

Rawalpindi Rams 163/6 (18.5 overs)	v	Afghan Cheetahs 162/4 (20 overs)
Awais Zia 60 (41) Karim Sadiq 1/17 (4 overs)		Samiullah Shenwari 52 (32) Mohammad Rameez 2/41 (4 overs)

Rawalpindi Rams won by 4 wickets National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Iqbal Butt and Shakeel Khan Player of the match: Awais Zia

• Afghan Cheetahs won the toss and chose to bat
• Abdullah Mazari, Najeeb Tarakai, Najibullah Zadran, Qaseem Khan, Sami Agha and Sayed Shirzad (Afghan Cheetas) all made their T20 debuts.

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29 September 12:00 Scorecard

Rawalpindi Rams 152/5 (18.4 overs)	v	Multan Tigers 151/9 (20 overs)
Awais Zia 52 (30) Mohammad Zahid 2/30 (4 overs)		Ansar Javed 35* (26) Mohammad Rameez 4/24 (4 overs)

Rawalpindi Rams won by 5 wickets National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Nadeem Ghauri and Tahir Shah Player of the match: Shahbaz Ahmed

• Multan Tigers won the toss and chose to bat
• Shahbaz Ahmed (Multan Tigers) made his T20 debut.

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29 September 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard

Faisalabad Wolves 145/8 (20 overs)	v	Afghan Cheetahs 132/9 (20 overs)
Mohammad Salman 32 (26) Mohammad Nabi 2/24 (4 overs)		Gulbudeen Naib 68 (42) Abdur Rauf 2/25 (3 overs)

Faisalabad Wolves won by 13 runs National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Shozab Raza and Zameer Haider Player of the match: Gulbudeen Naib

• Faisalabad Wolves won the toss and chose to bat
• Fazal Niazai and Mohammad Nasim Baras (Afghan Cheetas) both made their T20 debuts.

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30 September 12:00 Scorecard

Afghan Cheetahs 131/9 (20 overs)	v	Multan Tigers 135/6 (19.2 overs)
Najib Taraki 34 (24) Naved Yasin 4/17 (4 overs)		Zain Abbas 54 (35) Mohammad Nabi 2/32 (4 overs)

Multan Tigers won by 4 wickets National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Riazuddin and Saleem Badar Player of the match: Naved Yasin

• Afghan Cheetahs won the toss and chose to bat
• Yamin Ahmadzai (Afghan Cheetas) made his T20 debut.

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30 September 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard

Rawalpindi Rams 165/8 (20 overs)	v	Faisalabad Wolves 158/7 (20 overs)
Umar Amin 53 (37) Saeed Ajmal 3/32 (4 overs)		Imran Khalid 48 (35) Sohail Tanvir 2/23 (4 overs)

Rawalpindi Rams won by 7 runs National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Ahsan Raza and Shakeel Khan Player of the match: Umar Amin

• Rawalpindi Rams won the toss and chose to bat
• Sabir Hussain (Faisalabad Wolves) made his T20 debut.

Group C

25 September 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard

Lahore Lions 194/5 (20 overs)	v	Hyderabad Hawks 112 (18.4 overs)
Ahmed Shehzad 72 (50) Nasir Awais 3/43 (4 overs)		Sharjeel Khan 30 (23) Raza Ali Dar 2/9 (3 overs)

Lahore Lions won by 74 runs National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Hakeem Shah and Khalid Mahmood

• Hyderabad Hawks won the toss and chose to field
• Tanzeel Altaf (Lahore Lions) made his T20 debut.

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26 September 12:00 Scorecard

Sialkot Stallions 98/1 (16.4 overs)	v	Hyderabad Hawks 96/8 (20 overs)
Shoaib Malik 50 (52) Nasir Awais 1/16 (2.4 overs)		Shahzad Haider 42 (43) Sarfraz Ahmed 4/13 (4 overs)

Sialkot Stallions won by 9 wickets National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Anis-ur-Rehman and Rasheed Bhatti Player of the match: Sarfraz Ahmed

• Hyderabad Hawks won the toss and chose to bat
• Shahzad Haider (Hyderabad Hawks) made his T20 debut.

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27 September 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard

Lahore Lions 121 (19.4 overs)	v	Sialkot Stallions 124/4 (19.1 overs)
Abdul Razzaq 42 (33) Naved-ul-Hasan 3/30 (4 overs)		Shahid Yousuf 47 (52) Raza Ali Dar 1/13 (4 overs)

Sialkot Stallions won by 6 wickets National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Islam Khan and Saleem Badar Player of the match: Shahid Yousuf

• Lahore Lions won the toss and chose to bat

Group D

28 September 12:00 Scorecard

Islamabad Leopards 122 (19.3 overs)	v	Peshawar Panthers 150/9 (20 overs)
Naeem Anjum 40 (41) Nauman Habib 4/17 (3.3 overs)		Aftab Alam 36 (33) Zohaib Ahmed 3/21 (4 overs)

Peshawar Panthers won by 28 runs National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Ghaffar Kazmi and Zameer Haider Player of the match: Umar Gul

• Islamabad Leopards won the toss and chose to field
• Junaid Nadir, Sajid Ali (Islamabad Leopards) and Nauman Habib (Peshawar Panthers) all made their T20 debuts.

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29 September 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard

Karachi Dolphins 132/2 (13.3 overs)	v	Islamabad Leopards 131/9 (20 overs)
Shahid Afridi 58 (32) Rizwan Malik 1/27 (3 overs)		Afaq Raheem 22 (15) Shahid Afridi 3/20 (4 overs)

Karachi Dolphins won by 8 wickets National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Ahmed Shahab and Ghaffar Kazmi Player of the match: Shahid Afridi

• Islamabad Leopards won the toss and chose to bat
• Moed Ahmed, Rizwan Malik and Sarmad Bhatti (Islamabad Leopards) all made their T20 debuts.

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30 September 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard

Karachi Dolphins 148/9 (20 overs)	v	Peshawar Panthers 177/7 (20 overs)
Sarfraz Ahmed 37 (20) Nauman Habib 3/27 (4 overs)		Zohaib Khan 43* (23) Faraz Ahmed 2/27 (4 overs)

Peshawar Panthers won by 29 runs National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Ehtesham-ul-Haq and Shozab Raza Player of the match: Zohaib Khan

• Peshawar Panthers won the toss and chose to bat
• Rumman Raees (Karachi Dolphins) and Nasir Ahmed (Peshawar Panthers) both made their T20 debuts.

Knockout stage

Semi-finals

1 October 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard

Lahore Eagles 167 (19.3 overs)	v	Sialkot Stallions 171/4 (18.5 overs)
Imran Farhat 73 (44) Rana Naved-ul-Hasan 2/23 (4 overs)		Shoaib Malik 88* (79) Junaid Zia 3/23 (4 overs)

Sialkot Stallions won by 6 wickets National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Riazuddin and Zameer Haider Player of the match: Shoaib Malik (Sialkot Stallions)

• Lahore Eagles won the toss and chose to bat

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1 October 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard

Rawalpindi Rams 168(19.5 overs)	v	Peshawar Panthers 91 (16 overs)
Umar Amin 30 (26) Zohaib Khan 3/36 (4 overs)		Rafatullah Mohmand 33 (26) Umar Amin 3/14 (4 overs)

Rawalpindi Rams won by 77 runs National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Ahsan Raza and Saleem Badar Player of the match: Umar Amin (Rawalpindi Rams)

• Rawalpindi Rams won the toss and elected bat

Final

2 October 19:00 (D/N) Scorecard

Sialkot Stallions 180/6 (20 overs)	v	Rawalpindi Rams 170/8 (20 overs)
Qaiser Abbas 44 (34) Awais Zia 2/17 (2 overs)		Naved Malik 67 (47) Raza Hasan 2/11 (4 overs)

Sialkot Stallions won by 10 runs National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Aleem Dar and Asad Rauf Player of the match: Raza Hasan (Sialkot Stallions)

• Sialkot Stallions won the toss and elected to bat

Statistics

Leading run scorers

Runs	Player	Team	Matches
218	Yasir Hameed	Abbottabad Falcons	3
193	Imran Farhat	Lahore Eagles	4
153	Shoaib Malik	Sialkot Stallions	3
152	Taufeeq Umar	Lahore Eagles	4
147	Umar Amin	Rawalpindi Rams	4
145	Awais Zia	Rawalpindi Rams	4

Leading wicket takers

Wickets	Player	Team	Matches
10	Mohammad Rameez	Rawalpindi Rams	4
9	Nauman Habib	Peshawar Panthers	3
8	Junaid Zia	Lahore Eagles	4
8	Danish Kaneria	Karachi Zebras	3
7	Saeed Ajmal	Faisalabad Wolves	3
6	Raza Hasan	Sialkot Stallions	3

Highest team totals

The following table lists the highest team scores during this season.

Team	Total	Opponent	Ground
Lahore Lions	194/5	Hyderabad Hawks	National Stadium, Karachi
Abbottabad Falcons	190/2	Quetta Bears	National Stadium, Karachi
Peshawar Panthers	177/7	Karachi Dolphins	National Stadium, Karachi
Karachi Zebras	172/5	Quetta Bears	National Stadium, Karachi

Broadcasting rights

All matches were taken place at the National Stadium, Karachi and all matches were telecasted live on GEO Super.