Pakistan Blues 2026 Squad, Results, Stats & Schedule

Pakistan Blues are one of four men's selection sides in the inaugural 2026 National Champions Cup. The PCB scheduled a single round robin from 11 to 16 August, followed by a top-two final on 18 August, with every match played under List A rules at Multan Cricket Stadium.

Sahibzada Farhan captains the side and Aizaz Cheema is head coach. PCB's published support group also names Fahad Masood as bowling coach, Naveed Latif as batting coach and Hussain Khosa as fielding coach.

Blues began with a six-wicket win over Pakistan Gold. Hasan Ali and Sufyan Moqim took four wickets each and Arafat Minhas took the other two before Farhan made 102 from 101 balls in the chase.

The stored standings snapshot gives Blues two points and NRR +0.872 after one completed match. Pakistan Whites were batting in the 13 August meeting at the 16:23 PKT research cutoff, so that live game is not treated as a final result or added to player aggregates here.

Only seven players appeared in both the 27 July announced XI and the 12 August scorecard XI. The evidence proves the change, but not its cause.

Farhan, Ahmed Daniyal, Arafat Minhas, Hasan Ali, Rohail Nazir, Sufyan Moqim and Tayyab Tahir were in both lists. Hussain Talat, Jahandad Khan, Shamyl Hussain and Taimur Khan were announced but did not appear in the opener.

Maaz Sadaqat, Mohammad Faiq, Muhammad Irfan Khan and Akif Javed completed the match XI. Faiq and Irfan were in the shared reserve pool; Maaz and Akif had been announced in other colour XIs. No retrieved official notice explained those two cross-team changes, so this page records the scorecard without inventing a reason.

No. Two points and a positive net run rate are a strong start, not a qualification result.

Each team plays three league matches and the top two advance. One heavy win can produce a large net-run-rate change in such a small table, while one later defeat can compress the standings.

Blues held +0.872 NRR after the first two tournament matches had been completed. The 13 August match was still live at the research cutoff, so no final table position or qualification projection is attached to it.

It is the team's 2026 tournament venue, not a proven permanent home ground. All four teams share the same Multan stage.

The PCB assigned all six league matches and the final to Multan Cricket Stadium. Pakistan Blues do not represent Multan in the way a regional side or city franchise would.

Calling the venue a conventional Blues home would add an identity the competition did not announce. The page therefore shows the actual match location while keeping the team's national selection scope clear.

No. Pakistan Blues are an event-specific domestic selection side for the 2026 National Champions Cup.

The name does not make this side Pakistan's senior international team, Karachi Blues, Lahore Blues or another regional Blues team. Those identities have different selectors, competitions and statistical records.

A Pakistan Blues label also appeared in a two-player double-wicket event in 2001. That short-format namesake is not used as history for this 11-player List A side because the competition and team structure are unrelated.

The win combined a full ten-wicket bowling performance with a controlled chase completed 50 balls early. It was more than a single-player result.

Hasan Ali and Sufyan Moqim took four wickets each, while Arafat Minhas supplied the remaining two as Gold were dismissed for 212 in 45.3 overs. The three-way split accounts for every wicket without assigning unsupported bowling figures.

Farhan's 102 from 101 balls anchored 213/4 in 41.4 overs. Tayyab Tahir added 35, Mohammad Faiq 30 and Rohail Nazir finished 21 not out, so the chase had support beyond the century even though Farhan supplied nearly half the target.