New contracts see a 15 per cent increase in retainers across all categories

Naseem had a promising start to his career when he picked up first five-fer in his just third Test – when Pakistan played Sri Lanka in the second and the last of the Test at Karachi to win the series 1-0

For the first time, the PCB has introduced separate red and white-ball contracts

The four stalwarts share six major world titles, 1,559 international matches, 43,057 runs and 992 wickets between them

Number-three ranked Pakistan will take on number-eight ranked Bangladesh on 7 October and number-six ranked New Zealand on the following day

Agha has almost 40 percent of his career’s first-class runs in the last three years has been because of a paradigm shift in his attitude toward the game

PCB has involved senior coaches to lead the support staff of each squad featuring in the National U19 Cup

Salman Ali Agha, who has scored 4,224 runs and taken 88 wickets in first-class, is another addition to the squad

The rewards were announced in recognition of their performances at the international level

The Karachi-based cricketer had to face the challenge of leaving district-level cricket and travelling back to his village in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to get his unwell mother operated on but decided to stay back after a local coach offered to take up the medic