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KCC collaboration with Peshawar Zalmi

KCC Board President Mr. Haider Farman is delighted to announce the upcoming pathbreaking collaboration with Mr. Javed Afridi’s PSL franchise Peshawar Zalmi as part of KCC’s global development program strategy for it’s national men’s & women’s team.

“Following a successful delivery in it’s first talent hunt program in Colombo which helped Kuwait grow a pool of consistent contracted players for the men’s team, KCC Delegation spearheaded by Director General Mr. Sajid Ashraf are heading to Pakistan to conduct a 3 days talent hunt program and sign an official Memorandum of Understanding with Peshawar Zalmi’s Director of Cricket, Mr. Mohammad Akram – the former Test & ODI cricketer of Pakistan”, Mr. Farman declared.

As part of KCC’s vision & future strategy, President Mr. Haider Farman (the former Director of Asian Games & the Global Technical head of ANOC – Association of National Olympic Committees) emphasized that “this is a fantastic opportunity to grow a partnership with an established franchise of a Test nation which will definitely pave the way for multiple opportunities for young talent in Pakistan as well as our players (men’s & women’s category), coaches, ground staff, support staff and Kuwait cricket as a whole”.

As part of its collaboration with the franchise, Peshawar Zalmi have already shortlisted high potential players who will now take part in the final stages of the talent hunt where the final selection will be jointly done by Kuwait Cricket & Peshawar Zalmi coaches from the 18th-20th of January 2025.

The selected players will obtain a golden opportunity to move to Kuwait where they will be provided jobs with KCC’s sponsors & partners and join the Men’s high performance program, strengthening KCC’s Domestic and National pathway in the process. The same process will be repeated for the Women’s pathway as well in the future.

Director General Mr. Sajid Ashraf, who has been the visionary go getter of Kuwait Cricket alongside the KCC Board President Mr. Haider Farman, highlighted that players from Kuwait cricket will also be nominated towards future PSL drafts with the chance to represent Peshawar Zalmi in the coming editions based on international T20I performances for Kuwait & the high performance standards required by Zalmi across all disciplines.

Mr. Ashraf further added that since Kuwait is a high performance country with the ICC, this partnership will help develop KCC’s coaching staff which has been diligently & successfully led by the Head Coach Mr. Qasim Ali over the past 12 months and he will be supported by Kuwait’s experienced coach Mr. Tahir Khan & high performance committee member & former national player Mr. Saud Qamar on this historic visit to the home ground of Peshawar Zalmi.

In addition, Peshawar Zalmi are committed to developing the global Zalmi league in Kuwait, providing greater exposure and opportunity across our domestic structure. Peshawar Zalmi are also keen in conducting Bi-lateral Tours for our national women’s and youth programmes as they look to sustain long term strategic development across both countries.

KCC delegation will get to work with former Test, ODI & T20 legends such as Mohammad Yousuf, & Umar Gul during the talent hunt program which kick starts tomorrow and everyone’s bound to gain valuable international and franchise experience as Kuwait Cricket continues to grow in the region.

This ground breaking collaboration is vital to KCC’s strategic vision and will continue to strengthen the future of Kuwait Cricket.

Stay tuned for more updates as the talent hunt kicks off tomorrow.



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