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15 November:
Pakistan Cricket Board denied
Umar Akmal,
Saeed Ajmal and
Shahid Afridi permission to play in the season's
Big Bash League, the Australia Twenty20 league, to ensure the trio's participation in
Faysal Bank T20 Cup. •
17 November:
Shahid Afridi is a fine player and has performed well in the past, but the upcoming
Faysal Bank T20 Cup is the opportunity for him to perform and we will watch him – Pakistan chief selector
Iqbal Qasim. •
19 November:
Pakistan Cricket Board granted
Saeed Ajmal,
Shahid Afridi and
Umar Akmal permission to play a few games at the
Big Bash League, on the request of
Cricket Australia. The trio were to miss the last round of
Faysal Bank T20 Cup. •
19 November:
Shahid Afridi, the Pakistan allrounder, has said he will not play for
Sydney Thunder despite being given permission by
Pakistan Cricket Board to take part in Australia's
Big Bash League. Afridi said he wanted to play in
Faysal Bank T20 Cup instead and that clashes with Australia's Twenty20 competition. •
20 November: Famous all-rounder
Azhar Mahmood now will lead
Islamabad Leopards in order to get a position in the
national team of Pakistan for the tour of India. Azhar Mahmood had not played in any league of Pakistan since October 2010. He had played in many T20 leagues all over the world like the
Indian Premier League,
Bangladesh Premier League,
Friends Life t20,
HRV Cup,
Sri Lanka Premier League and
Champions League Twenty20. •
21 November: Test cricketer
Hasan Raza was debarred from leading
Karachi Zebras for the domestic season, but he could represent his team as the inquiry committee which took the decision failed to find any substance in the allegations of match-fixing against him and his team
Karachi Zebras during the
2012 Faysal Bank Super Eight T20 Cup.
Danish Kaneria was also not able to lead
Karachi Zebras this year due to his spot fixing ban.
Rameez Raja is mostly confident for captaining the team
Karachi Zebras. •
21 November: Lahore Regional Cricket Association named
Mohammad Yousuf as the
Lahore Lions captain and also requested
Pakistan Cricket Board to review its one-year ban on left-arm fast-bowler Emmad Ali so that he could be possibly be included in the T20 squads. Pakistan's T20 captain
Mohammad Hafeez will be featuring in the
Lahore Lions instead of
Faisalabad Wolves. •
24 November:
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has decided to set arena for Pakistan's domestic Twenty20 tournament in
Lahore instead of
Karachi because of the volatile situation in city which was scheduled to be played between 2 and 10 December. The tournament will now be played in three different grounds of
Lahore which includes
Gaddafi Stadium,
Bagh-e-Jinnah and
Lahore City Cricket Association Ground. •
28 November: The
Faysal Bank T20 Cup will begin on 1 December and its final will be on 9 December.
Bahawalpur Stags is the new team in the T20 competition. •
30 November:
Pakistan Cricket Board is introducing in-competition dope testing during the
Faysal Bank T20 Cup in order to strive for drug-free sports and to protect the basic framework for the athletes, the board said in a statement. Cricketers from all the regional teams participating in
Faysal Bank T20 Cup will randomly be picked for dope testing. "These tests will be conducted by
WADA-accredited independent doping control officers throughout the competition." •
1 December:
Mohammad Yousuf, the former Pakistan batsman, has passed on the captaincy of the
Lahore Lions team to
Mohammad Hafeez, the national team's T20 captain, for the ongoing
Faysal Bank T20 Cup to help the latter gain experience. ==Teams==