The National Men’s U19 threeday Championship and OneDay Cup are set to begin on Tuesday, 10 September. Each round of the threeday games will be followed by the OneDay games. As such, a total of 98 matches each will be played over a 61day period.

Eighteen teams of 16 regions will participate in the tournament, whose oneday final will be held on 22 October and the threeday final from 69 November. Venues of the final will be announced in due course.

The 18 regional teams will be equally divided into three groups with the matches to be played on a singleleague basis till 12 October. The next phase will include oneday matches between three group toppers on a singleleague from 1622 October, followed by threeday matches between the group toppers again on a singleleague basis from 25 October to 9 November.

Peshawar will defend the threeday title, while Karachi Whites are the reigning oneday champions.

The squads have been selected following the Regional InterDistrict U19 Tournament from 23 May to 10 June in which 104 district sides had participated.

The National Men’s U19 Championship and Cup is expected to provide the budding and emerging teenagers to prove their mettle and stake a claim in the Pakistan U19 team for the upcoming trination 50over series in November in UAE, which will be followed by the ACC Men’s U19 Asia Cup 2024.

Groups:

Group A (matches in Karachi): FATA, Islamabad, Karachi Whites, Larkana, Multan and Quetta regions

Group B (matches in Abbottabad, Charsada, Peshawar and Risalpur): Abbottabad, Bahawalpur, Faisalabad, Karachi Blues, Lahore Blues and Rawalpindi regions

Group C (matches in Faisalabad, Sargodha and Sheikhupura): Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), Dera Murad Jamali (DM Jamali), Hyderabad, Lahore Whites, Peshawar and Sialkot regions