The parliamentarians of eight countries will play the Inter-Parliamentary Cricket Tournament scheduled in the United Kingdom from July 8 to July 15, 2019. In order to ensure participation of a well-prepared team in the tournament, Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser has involved the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for cricket training of the parliamentarians. He has appointed MNA Makhdoom Zain Hussain Qureshi as convener of the Parliamentary cricket team of Pakistan. Qureshi already carries sizeable cricketing experience both at university and district levels.
Qaiser has joined together the ruling and opposition members of the National Assembly to play for Pakistan in the Inter-Parliamentary Cricket Tournament scheduled in the United Kingdom alongside the ICC Cricket World Cup.
Chairman PCB Ehsan Mani has nominated the former Test cricketer Mudassar Nazar, who is also director academy in the PCB, as the focal point for preparing the Parliamentary cricket team.
The 47 young members of the National Assembly will join their initial assessment and training camp to be set in the Shalimar Cricket Ground, Islamabad from April 16, 2019 for one week. Thereafter, the parliamentarians will play friendly matches among themselves till the end of April 2019 so that a befitting team could be selected to take part in the exciting and first of its kind tournament. The PCB has finalised the schedule for the parliamentarians' initial assessment and training camp under the supervision of its coaches.
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