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2005–06 National Twenty20 Cup

Dates	24 February – 4 March 2006
Administrator(s)	Pakistan Cricket Board
Cricket format	Twenty20
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin and knockout
Host(s)	Karachi
Champions	Sialkot Stallions (1st title)
Participants	13
Matches	39
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The 2005–06 ABN-AMRO Twenty-20 Cup was the second season of the ABN-AMRO Twenty-20 Cup in Pakistan, sponsored by ABN AMRO. It was held in Karachi from 24 February to 4 March 2006. This edition featured an expanded format, with an increase from 19 to 39 matches and from 11 to 13 teams; the new teams being the Islamabad Leopards and the Abbottabad Rhinos. The Sialkot Stallions won the tournament by defeating the defending champions the Faisalabad Wolves in the final.

Format

The 13 teams are divided into two groups: Pool A with seven teams and Pool B with six. Each group plays a single round-robin tournament and the top two teams from each group advance to the semi-finals. The winners of each group play the runners-up of the other group in the semi-finals. The winners of the semi-finals play the final.

The position of the teams in the points table is determined by:

• Total points
• Won
• Lost (fewest)
• Net run rate

Results

Teams and standings

The top two teams from each group qualify for the semi-finals.

  Qualified for semi-finals

Knockout stage

Fixtures

Group stage

Pool A

• Lahore Eagles won the toss and elected to field.
• Arsalan Mir, Humayun Farhat, Junaid Zia, Kashif Shafi (Lahore Eagles); Mansoor Amjad, Mohammad Asif, Sarfraz Ahmed, Shehzad Malik and Tahir Mughal (Sialkot Stallions) all made their T20 debuts.

• Rawalpindi Rams won the toss and elected to field.
• Ashraf Ali, Azam Hussain, Hasan Raza, Maisam Hasnain, Naumanullah, Rizwan Saeed, Tahir Khan, Tanvir Ahmed (Karachi Zebras); Alamgir Khan, Babar Naeem, Mohammad Wasim, Najaf Shah, Nauman Aman, Usman Saeed and Yasir Arafat (Rawalpindi Rams) all made their T20 debuts.

• Peshawar Panthers won the toss and elected to bat.
• Misbah-ul-Haq (Faisalabad Wolves); Fazl-e-Akbar, Riaz Afridi and Wajahatullah Wasti (Peshawar Panthers) all made their T20 debuts.

• Sialkot Stallions won the toss and elected to field.
• Asim Iqbal (Rawalpindi Rams) made his T20 debut.

• Multan Tigers won the toss and elected to bat.
• Azhar Shafiq, Majid Majeed, Mohammad Irshad, Saeed Anwar and Usman Tariq (Multan Tigers) all made their T20 debuts.

• Karachi Zebras won the toss and elected to bat.
• Karachi Zebras won by losing fewer wickets (first tie-breaking method)

• Karachi Zebras won the toss and elected to field.
• Anwar Ali (Karachi Zebras) made his T20 debut.

• Peshawar Panthers won the toss and elected to bat.
• Kamran Sajid (Lahore Eagles) made his T20 debut.

• Rawalpindi Rams won the toss and elected to bat.
• The Multan Tigers' target was revised to 100 runs from 10 overs according to the Duckworth–Lewis method.

• Rawalpindi Rams won the toss and elected to bat.

• Sialkot Stallions won the toss and elected to field.
• Mohammad Fayyaz and Taimur Khan (Peshawar Panthers) both made their T20 debuts.

• Karachi Zebras won the toss and elected to bat.
• Multan Tigers won by having a better run rate in the first ten overs. This is the second tie-breaking method, after wickets lost.
• Nasir Khan (Karachi Zebras); Bilal Khilji and Kashif Naved (Multan Tigers) all made their T20 debuts.

• Multan Tigers won the toss and elected to field.
• Waqar Ahmed and Zulfiqar Jan (Peshawar Panthers) both made their T20 debuts.

• Faisalabad Wolves won the toss and elected to bat.

• Sialkot Stallions won the toss and elected to bat.
• Farhan Adil (Karachi Zebras) made his T20 debut.

• Rawalpindi Rams won the toss and elected to bat.

• Faisalabad Wolves won the toss and elected to bat.
• Faisal Naved (Sialkot Stallions) made his T20 debut.

• Lahore Eagles won the toss and elected to bat.

• Sialkot Stallions won the toss and elected to bat.
• Riaz Ahmed (Multan Tigers) made his T20 debut.

• Rawalpindi Rams won the toss and elected to bat.
• Rizwan Akbar (Rawalpindi Rams) made his T20 debut.

• Lahore Eagles won the toss and elected to bat.
• Tabish Khan (Karachi Zebras) made his T20 debut.

Pool B

• Abbottabad Rhinos won the toss and elected to bat.
• Ali Naqvi, Amjad Waqas, Ashraf Ali, Azhar Ali, Dilawar Khan, Mohammad Bilal, Riaz Kail, Sajjad Ali, Shakeel-ur-Rehman, Zafar Jadoon (Abbottabad Rhinos); Ashar Zaidi, Atif Ashraf, Bazid Khan, Mohammad Altaf, Saad Altaf, Safdar Niazi, Sufyan Munir and Zohaib Ahmed (Islamabad Leopards) all made their T20 debuts.

• Quetta Bears won the toss and elected to field.
• Faisal Athar, Farhan Ayub, Farrukh Sheikh, Naeem-ur-Rehman, Nauman Ali (Hyderabad Hawks); Adil Nisar, Faisal Irfan, Hameedullah Khan, Mohammad Umar and Sabir Hussain (Quetta Bears) all made their T20 debuts.

• Karachi Dolphins won the toss and elected to bat.
• Asim Kamal, Faisal Iqbal, Irfanuddin (Karachi Dolphins); Imran Tahir, Rizwan Ahmed, Shehzad Butt and Zulqarnain Haider (Lahore Lions) all made their T20 debuts.

• Quetta Bears won the toss and elected to bat.

• Lahore Lions won the toss and elected to field.

• Islamabad Leopards won the toss and elected to bat.
• Afaq Raheem, Rauf Akbar (Islamabad Leopards); Nauman Alavi, Rajesh Ramesh and Sarfraz Ahmed (Karachi Dolphins) made their T20 debuts.

• Karachi Dolphins won the toss and elected to bat.
• Mudassar Ibrahim (Abbottabad Rhinos) and Saad Wasim (Karachi Dolphins) made their T20 debuts.

• Lahore Lions won the toss and elected to field.
• Umar Javed (Lahore Lions) and Ghulam Sarwar (Quetta Bears) made their T20 debuts.

• Hyderabad Hawks won the toss and elected to bat.
• Khadim Hussain (Hyderabad Hawks) and Imad Wasim (Islamabad Leopards) made their T20 debuts.

• Islamabad Leopards won the toss and elected to field.

• Hyderabad Hawks won the toss and elected to field.
• Mohammad Siddiq (Abbottabad Rhinos) and Pir Zulfiqar (Hyderabad Hawks) made their T20 debuts.

• Quetta Bears won the toss and elected to bat.

• Hyderabad Hawks won the toss and elected to bat.
• Sharjeel Khan (Hyderabad Hawks) made his T20 debut.

• Islamabad Leopards won the toss and elected to bat.
• Nauman Sadiq (Islamabad Leopards) and Zahoor Ahmed (Quetta Bears) made their T20 debuts.

• Abbottabad Rhinos won the toss and elected to field.
• Adnan Raees and Ahmed Said (Abbottabad Rhinos) made their T20 debuts.

Knockout stage

Semi-finals

• Sialkot Stallions won the toss and elected to bat.

• Lahore Lions won the toss and elected to bat.

Final

• Sialkot Stallions won the toss and elected to field.

Media coverage

Ten Sports was covering the tournament until a bomb blast in Karachi. PTV 1 covered some of the remaining matches afterwards.

• Ten Sports
• PTV 1

References

1. "ABN-AMRO Twenty-20 Cup 2005/06 Points Table". Pakistan Cricket Board). 2006. Retrieved 2012-06-08.

External links

• Tournament page on CricketArchive Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine
• Tournament page on ESPN CricInfo

• Domestic cricket competitions in 2005–06
• National Twenty20 Cup seasons
• 2006 in Pakistani cricket
• Pakistani cricket seasons from 2000–01