[PICTURES] Lahore Qalandars Player Development Program

[saeed5646]

Looking at the tears of haris rauf tell a story .lahore qalandar have done great job to giving exposure to young boy and it is paying off .hopefully the other franchise also realize the importance of these programs

[Syed1]

Yeah the three seasons they came dead last made them come up with some out-of-the-box solutions

[Chokli]

yep, gave shaheen a chance last year and now rauf this year

[The Viper]

They have done a good job giving young talent a chance. They even gave Salman Irshad a chance last season. The poor performances ahve led them to experiment more though.

[saeed5646]

This was important for future of PDP .haris rauf todays performance will give confidence to lahore qalandar think tank

[Hasan123]

Agreed. They have tried and have an interest in developing youth.

[Khwaja78]

Looking at the tears of haris rauf tell a story .lahore qalandar have done great job to giving exposure to young boy and it is paying off .hopefully the other franchise also realize the importance of these programs

Absolutely other franchisee have literally wasted 3 years of PSL to buy foreign hitters than developing one.

PDP is not an easy program but in terms of financial resources all PSL franchisee have the ability to develop their own structures which they've failed miserably in.

LQ despite the results continued their program and it deserves appreciation.

[aloo paratha]

And then there is QG

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Salman Mirza - another graduate of the PDP

[Muhammad Saad]

They keep churning 140k+ bowlers for fun. I think the notion that fast bowlers grows on tree in Pakistan is not entirely false.

[MenInG]

The most favorite franchise of the Pakistan Super League is excited to announce the resumption of the much anticipated and most sought-after cricket development program – the Player Development Program.

Lahore Qalandars, the Champions of PSL7, and the only PSL franchise to have its own exclusive and state-of-the-art High Performance Centre, will have an open trials for aspiring Qalandars on 17th of May under supervision of Pakistani and international coaches.

Yorkshire’s managing director of cricket and former England Cricketer Darren Gough along with assistant coach of Yorkshire county cricket club Kabir Ali will also be present on the occasion of this single-day trials which will be held at Qalandars’ high performance Centre from 9am to 6pm.

A number of players will be picked for further development of game and an opportunity to become next Haris Rauf, Shaheen Shah Afridi or Fakhar Zaman.

The selected players will also get scholarship for a year to train in Qalandars’ High Performance Centre.
It is worth mentioning that Qalandars’ Player Development Program is a globally acclaimed cricket development program which has produced several cricketers who are now serving various teams – domestically and internationally.

The program has provided million aspiring cricketers in the country a hope to reach their dreams.
Commenting on development, the CEO and owner of Lahore Qalandars Atif Rana said that the franchise is excited to resume its program which has, in past, provided Pakistan a star performer like Haris Rauf.

“We were unable to do this program for last two years becomes of COVID19 related restrictions but now as things have improved we believe that it is the high time for us to resume the much celebrated program and find more talented players to serve country,” said Mr Rana.

Aqib Javed, Qalandar’s director of cricket, said that he is hopeful to find more exciting performers from this trial.

“The PDP is not just a talent hunt project, it s a complete development program which not only picks the talent but also transforms that talent into a performer, you’ve seen example of Haris Rauf who was an unknown individual when he first arrived to appear in the trials and today he is one of the top performers in white-ball cricket,” said Mr Aqib Javed.

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Pictures (courtesy of LQ media) of the open trials being held at the Lahore Qalandars High performance center today

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Darren Gough at the trials

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Pictures (courtesy of LQ media) of Darren Gough attending the open trials arranged by Lahore Qalandars at the Lahore Qalandars High performance center today

[Bewal Express]

Goughy loves PK fast bowlers, a proper PKPHILE

[daytrader]

In lahore for @lahoreqalandars open trial
What an experience just to see the passion and desire of people to bowl 3 deliveries or bat against 3 deliveries. People travelled 8 hours to be here.
Can we do something like this in @YorkshireCCC this year ���� pic.twitter.com/bu5O6XYlco

— Darren Gough MBE (@DGoughie) May 17, 2022

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Darren Gough :

"I haven't been to Lahore and Pakistan for a long time and to come here and see the talent I have seen today is quite extraordinary"

"From the moment I turned up this morning I saw thousands and thousands and thousands of people looking for that dream to play for the Lahore Qalandars in the PSL"

"I've seen bowlers running in wearing trainers and no spikes or cricket shoes, bowling at 80mph. We haven't had anyone bowl in the 90s yet, but bowling at that speed with trainers at 80 to 87 mph goes to show that this can work"

"People have come from all parts of Pakistan to show their talent. I met someone who had come all the way from Karachi and I met a little boy who had come from the North of the country and had travelled 8-9 hours"

"People have come from all over to show their talent"

[BunnyRabbit]

LQ is amongst my least favorite franchises but I have to admit they are the ones who have done the most for the youngsters.

QG is hampered by typical tribal and seniority culture prevalent in Pak.

IU is quite self centered(even though it's my favorite/home team) as it is always looking to get the best out of the foreign players rather than domestic players. The top 4 is almost always 3 foreigners.

[shamaan]

LQ is amongst my least favorite franchises but I have to admit they are the ones who have done the most for the youngsters.

QG is hampered by typical tribal and seniority culture prevalent in Pak.

IU is quite self centered(even though it's my favorite/home team) as it is always looking to get the best out of the foreign players rather than domestic players. The top 4 is almost always 3 foreigners.

IU United have the best squads in terms of Pakistani player.

[ElRaja]

LQ have a different business model, and slowly its taking shape, but i wish they could finally find a proper batsmen.

also this also helps put into perspective how talent is important, but day by day becoming a smaller component of success at the top level.

only rauf has graduated from the program to being a consistent pro. thats one guy out of perhaps 5000 over the years. just goes to show that a lot of the best players, if not all, do eventually find their way to professional domestic cricket.

[BunnyRabbit]

IU United have the best squads in terms of Pakistani player.

Yes but if you look at their team formation, it's always top 3 foreign batters plus 1 allrounder/pacer foreigner. Basically they always prefer foreign top 3 batters. If you're not going to pick or give top 3 a fair go, you aren't going to develop them.

[BunnyRabbit]

LQ have a different business model, and slowly its taking shape, but i wish they could finally find a proper batsmen.

also this also helps put into perspective how talent is important, but day by day becoming a smaller component of success at the top level.

only rauf has graduated from the program to being a consistent pro. thats one guy out of perhaps 5000 over the years. just goes to show that a lot of the best players, if not all, do eventually find their way to professional domestic cricket.

Hard to find a batter from a talent pool. Judging a talent/raw ingredients of a batter needs hours or days. Practically impossible to do that in talent hunts unless the program only features club cricketers and the program runs for months.

[ElRaja]

Hard to find a batter from a talent pool. Judging a talent/raw ingredients of a batter needs hours or days. Practically impossible to do that in talent hunts unless the program only features club cricketers and the program runs for months.

dont disagree. i would just like them to broaden the mandate, because even from a competitive pov, a domestic batsman adds way more utility to a psl xi given the dearth of local batting talent.

[shamaan]

Yes but if you look at their team formation, it's always top 3 foreign batters plus 1 allrounder/pacer foreigner. Basically they always prefer foreign top 3 batters. If you're not going to pick or give top 3 a fair go, you aren't going to develop them.

That's a fair point

[BunnyRabbit]

dont disagree. i would just like them to broaden the mandate, because even from a competitive pov, a domestic batsman adds way more utility to a psl xi given the dearth of local batting talent.

Yes, we definitely need middle order batters and even proper allrounders(batters good enough to bat at no.6 and 7 who can score quickfire 50s regularly)

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Pictures (courtesy of the LQ Media) of the trials held at the Lahore Qalandars High performance center

[FreePalestine]

LQ have a different business model, and slowly its taking shape, but i wish they could finally find a proper batsmen.

also this also helps put into perspective how talent is important, but day by day becoming a smaller component of success at the top level.

only rauf has graduated from the program to being a consistent pro. thats one guy out of perhaps 5000 over the years. just goes to show that a lot of the best players, if not all, do eventually find their way to professional domestic cricket.

TBH, that is not a bad ratio. They have produced a bowler who is considered close to world class in the limited overs format and they have produced a couple of other raw bowlers who have played regularly for LQ. 3 out of 5000 is not bad if you consider that a cricket team is made up of 11 players in a country of 220 million. It is not that easy to produce an international player. They have done very well in a very short span of time, that is why Australian and English county sides are so interested in their talent pool and their process.

[Titan24]

LQ have a different business model, and slowly its taking shape, but i wish they could finally find a proper batsmen.

also this also helps put into perspective how talent is important, but day by day becoming a smaller component of success at the top level.

only rauf has graduated from the program to being a consistent pro. thats one guy out of perhaps 5000 over the years. just goes to show that a lot of the best players, if not all, do eventually find their way to professional domestic cricket.

I guess really hard to find a complete batsman from the talent pool of players which are being looked at from T20 perspective mainly as that is the format LQ operates in. Still might be able to find a decent hitter or two (I think Sohail Akthar was a decent striker but, was a pretty late boomer). So there might be only one or so slots for the kind of batsmen they will be looking for from the lens of T20 format in the trials. Rest of the local batsmen in top 4-5 have to be proper batsmen first (Then the stroke making abilities come in) like we saw with LQ in this season and that brought them the trophy.

[silentkiller187]

Lahore Qalandars
Press Release

Lahore:

Lahore Qalandars, the Champions of PSL7 and the most favorite franchise of the Pakistan Super League (PSL), last week resumed its much anticipated Player Development Program (PDP) opening doors for talented cricketers waiting for an opportunity.

On 17th May 2022, tens of thousands aspiring Qalandars appeared in trials which were also extended for one more day to allow everyone the maximum opportunity to showcase their skills and achieve their dream of playing for Pakistan.

Following the open trials and further assessment, the management and coaching staff of Lahore Qalandars is proud to announce its next batch of aspiring Qalandars, the class of 2022. These 22 players will get scholarship for training at HCP for further enhance their skills and get closer to wearing the green jersey.

At this stage, the assessment of 19 students is completed while 3 are pending for further assessment. The selected players will get a scholarship for one year to train in Qalandars High Performance Centre and to become the next Haris Rauf, Shaheen Shah Afridi, and Fakhar Zaman.
Out of these 22 aspiring Qalandars, five of will get a scholarship in the name Mohammad Ayyaz Khan Afridi (father of Shaheen Shah Afridi).

It is worth mentioning that Yorkshire County Cricket Club’s (YCCC) Managing Director and Former England Fast Bowler Darren Gough, Assistant Coach of YCCC Kabir Ali along with other coaches and management were also present during the trials.

The management of YCCC was amazed to see the thousand of players who participated in PDP from all over Pakistan to become the next cricket icon. They also wished to replicate this program for Yorkshire.
The selected players for the class 2022 summer season are mentioned below

[KyoOne]

Lahore Qalandars
Press Release

Lahore:

Lahore Qalandars, the Champions of PSL7 and the most favorite franchise of the Pakistan Super League (PSL), last week resumed its much anticipated Player Development Program (PDP) opening doors for talented cricketers waiting for an opportunity.

On 17th May 2022, tens of thousands aspiring Qalandars appeared in trials which were also extended for one more day to allow everyone the maximum opportunity to showcase their skills and achieve their dream of playing for Pakistan.

Following the open trials and further assessment, the management and coaching staff of Lahore Qalandars is proud to announce its next batch of aspiring Qalandars, the class of 2022. These 22 players will get scholarship for training at HCP for further enhance their skills and get closer to wearing the green jersey.

At this stage, the assessment of 19 students is completed while 3 are pending for further assessment. The selected players will get a scholarship for one year to train in Qalandars High Performance Centre and to become the next Haris Rauf, Shaheen Shah Afridi, and Fakhar Zaman.
Out of these 22 aspiring Qalandars, five of will get a scholarship in the name Mohammad Ayyaz Khan Afridi (father of Shaheen Shah Afridi).

It is worth mentioning that Yorkshire County Cricket Club’s (YCCC) Managing Director and Former England Fast Bowler Darren Gough, Assistant Coach of YCCC Kabir Ali along with other coaches and management were also present during the trials.

The management of YCCC was amazed to see the thousand of players who participated in PDP from all over Pakistan to become the next cricket icon. They also wished to replicate this program for Yorkshire.
The selected players for the class 2022 summer season are mentioned below

Good to see few 17, 18 year olds clocking good speeds. They should also measure swing/seam for better judgment of youngsters

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Pictures (courtesy of LQ Media) of the press conference to announce the Lahore Qalandar's Player Development Program's class of 2022