2012 Super 8 Twenty20 Cup

The 2012 Faysal Bank Super Eight T20 Cup was the second season of the Faysal Bank Super Eight T20 Cup, a domestic Twenty20 cricket tournament organized by the Pakistan Cricket Board. The season began on 25 March 2012 and was held at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium in Rawalpindi. 15 matches were played during the tournament.

Sialkot Stallions won the tournament after beating Karachi Dolphins in the final, and, therefore, qualified for the 2012 Champions League Twenty20.

Venue
All the matches were played at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi.

Squads
The squads are as follows:


 * Misbah-ul-Haq (c)
 * Ali Raza
 * Ali Waqas
 * Asad Ali
 * Asif Ali
 * Farrukh Shehzad
 * Imran Ali
 * Imran Khalid
 * Jahandad Khan
 * Khurram Shehzad
 * Mohammad Hafeez
 * Mohammad Salman (wk)
 * Mohammad Talha
 * Naved Latif
 * Sabir Hussain
 * Saeed Ajmal
 * Shahid Nazir
 * Waqas Maqsood
 * Waqas Maqsood


 * Umar Gul (c)
 * Afaq Ahmed
 * Aftab Alam
 * Akbar Badshah
 * Gauhar Ali (wk)
 * Imran Khan
 * Israrullah
 * Jamaluddin
 * Mohammad Aslam
 * Mohammad Fayyaz
 * Mohammad Rizwan
 * Musadiq Ahmed
 * Rafatullah Mohmand
 * Riaz Afridi
 * Sajjad Ahmed
 * Shoaib Khan
 * Waqar Ahmed
 * Zohaib Khan
 * Zohaib Khan


 * Kamran Akmal (c & wk)
 * Abdul Razzaq
 * Adnan Rasool
 * Ahmed Shehzad
 * Aizaz Cheema
 * Asif Yousuf
 * Fahad-ul-Haq
 * Imran Ali
 * Jahangir Mirza
 * Kashif Siddiq
 * Nasir Jamshed
 * Jamshed Ahmed
 * Raza Ali Dar
 * Sohail Ahmed
 * Tanzeel Altaf
 * Umar Akmal
 * Wahab Riaz
 * Wahab Riaz


 * Hasan Raza (c)
 * Adnan Baig
 * Akbar-ur-Rehman
 * Anwar Ali
 * Atif Maqbool
 * Azam Hussain
 * Danish Kaneria
 * Fahad Iqbal
 * Faisal Iqbal
 * Fakhar Zaman
 * Khurram Manzoor
 * Rameez Aziz
 * Mohammad Hasan (wk)
 * Saeed Bin Nasir
 * Uzair-ul-Haq
 * Zohaib Shera
 * Tabish Khan
 * Tabish Khan


 * Shoaib Malik (c)
 * Abdur Rehman
 * Ali Akbar
 * Ali Khan
 * Haris Sohail
 * Imran Nazir
 * Kamran Younis
 * Kashif Sohail
 * Mansoor Amjad
 * Mohammad Ayub
 * Naved-ul-Hasan
 * Naved Arif
 * Qaiser Abbas
 * Raza Hasan
 * Rizwan Sultan
 * Sarfraz Ahmed
 * Shahid Yousuf
 * Shakeel Ansar (wk)
 * Shakeel Ansar (wk)


 * Taufeeq Umar (c)
 * Adnan Akmal (wk)
 * Adnan Raza
 * Ali Azmat
 * Asif Ashfaq
 * Asif Raza
 * Azhar Ali
 * Emmad Ali
 * Fahad Masood
 * Hamza Paracha
 * Imran Farhat
 * Junaid Zia
 * Kamran Sajid
 * Mohammad Khalil
 * Mustafa Iqbal
 * Saad Nasim
 * Usman Salahuddin
 * Waqas Aslam
 * Waqas Aslam


 * Mohammad Sami (c)
 * Ahmed Iqbal
 * Asad Baig
 * Asad Shafiq
 * Faraz Ahmed
 * Fawad Alam
 * Haaris Ayaz
 * Javed Mansoor
 * Khalid Latif
 * Mir Hamza
 * Rameez Raja
 * Rumman Raees
 * Sarfraz Ahmed (wk)
 * Shahzaib Hasan
 * Sohail Khan
 * Sheharyar Ghani
 * Tanvir Ahmed
 * Tariq Haroon
 * Tariq Haroon


 * Sohail Tanvir (c)
 * Umar Amin
 * Adnan Mufti
 * Awais Zia
 * Babar Naeem
 * Hammad Azam
 * Jamal Anwar (wk)
 * Mohammad Ayaz
 * Mohammad Nawaz
 * Mohammad Rameez
 * Nasir Malik
 * Naved Malik
 * Samiullah
 * Tahir Rauf
 * Umair Mushtaq
 * Yasim Murtaza
 * Yasir Arafat
 * Zahid Mansoor
 * Zahid Mansoor

Mohammad Sami replaced Shahid Afridi as Karachi Dolphins captain.

Teams and standings

 * Qualified for semifinals
 * Full table on ESPNCricinfo

Fixtures

 * All match times in Pakistan Standard Time (UTC+5:30).

Knockout stage

 * Semi-finals


 * Final

Karachi Dolphins won the toss and elected to bat, and the decision seemed to have paid off when they powered past 60 in the Powerplay. Their batting was led by opener Khalid Latif, who carried his bat through the innings to finish with 81 off 59. The main support was provided by Shahzaib Hasan and Asad Shafiq, who scored 30 and 38, respectively. They made 167 for 8 in 20 overs. Raza Hasan's 4 wickets came for 33 runs.

Chasing 168, Sialkot Stallions lost Shakeel Ansar early but took control thereafter. Imran Nazir scored a rapid 41 (20 balls), before an unbroken stand of 119 at close to nine an over between Shoaib Malik (62) and Haris Sohail (55) sealed the game in the 19th over.

For the final, 20,000-odd people thronged the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, with its newly renovated stands. There were a further 15,000 fans outside the stadium, doing their best to catch glimpses of the action.