KHP vs CEP Live Score, Quaid-e-Azam Trophy 2020 Live Score, KHP vs CEP Final Live Cricket Score

Date:            1st January, 2020

Time:            10:30 AM IST.

Venue:          State Bank Stadium in Karachi.

Match Preview

After months of exciting cricketing action in the longest format and arguably the purest format of cricket, the efforts of the players, it all comes down the last match of the tournament, the all-important final of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy 2020-21, which will be played between the two most deserving teams of the tournament, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Central Punjab.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa finished as the table toppers with 5 wins, 1 loss and 4 draws in the 10 games they played in. Central Punjab followed them in the table, with one win less than their counterparts, with the losses and the draws standing at 3 matches apiece. So, it would be really interesting to see which team is able to run the last mile in the best way possible and earn the title of the champions of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy 2020-21.

Khyber Pankhtunkhwa:

Musadiq Ahmed, Israrullah, Fakhar Zaman, Kamran Ghulam, Adil Amin, Rehan Afridi (wk), Khalid Usman (c), Sajid Khan, Mohammad Wasim, Arshad Iqbal, Irfanullah Shah.

Bench: Mohammad Ibrahim, Zohil Khan, Farhan, Sajid jnr, abid Jamal, ish Khan Jnr.

Central Punjab:

Muhammad Akhlaq, Ali Zaryab Asif, Usman Salahuddin (c), Muhammad Sad, Saad Nasim, Qasim Akram, Ali Shan (wk), Hasan Ali, Bilwal Iqbal, Ahmed Bashir, Ahmed Safi Abdullah.

Bench: Baris Asif, Rubel Hussain, Salman Butt, Talat Tahir, Abid Ali.

Pitch and Weather Reports

The weather report for all the days of this game is great as the sun is expected to shine bright in the skies and no chance of rainfall adds a lot of positivity to the news of an uninterrupted game to take place. The temperatures will be around the 24 degree Celsius mark.

3 of the last 5 matches of this tournament played at this venue have ended in a draw where the batsmen have seen a good amount of help coming in for them and the pitch uncharacteristically helping the pacers during the games. And, the same behaviour is expected to be carried through in this game.

Average first innings score:

321 (Last 5 matches of the tournament played here)

KHP vs CEP Top picks

• Kamran Ghulam, with over a 1,000 runs to his name, is the highest run-scorer of the tournament and has put his batting talents to the show in the best way possible. He has scored 1,065 runs so far in the 10 matches he has played, at an average of 59.16.
• Sajid Khan has topped the charts with the ball in hand, as he has taken 62 wickets in 10 matches while maintaining a bowling average of 24.80.
• Usman Salahuddin has been an exceptional batsman and has come to be the top performer with the bat for his team in this tournament. He has scored 797 runs in 10 matches, including one double ton.
• Qasim Akram has showed everyone what a player he is, whether it is with the bat or the ball in hand. He scored 299 runs and took 11 wickets in the 7 matches he played in and came in with contributions whenever his team needed him.

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Keeper –  Rehan Afridi

Batsmen – Kamran Ghulam, Adil Amin(vc), Israrullah, Usman Salahuddin (c), Muhammad Saad.

All-Rounders – Khalid Usman, Ahmed Safi Abdullah

Bowlers – Sajid Khan, Muhammad Wasim, Ahmed Bashir