Pakistan Players Financially Penalised After Champions Trophy 2025

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has put massive fines on their players for breaking some rules and regulations set up by the board. Their pace bowling all-rounder, Aamer Jamal, faced a massive fine for just writing 804 on his Test cap during a recent Test series.

Alongside Jamal, the national side’s vice-captain in ODIs, Salman Ali Agha, faced a heavy fine while the board also didn’t stop the two opening batters, Abdullah Shafique and Saim Ayub, from putting some high fines.

PCB imposes heavy fines on the Pakistan players

The reports of the Samaa TV reckoned that the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) imposed some heavy fines on the national players for not following the guidelines properly and violating the board’s rules and regulations.

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Starting from the Multan Test against England last year to the away red-ball series against South Africa later in the year, the PCB has inflicted a total of PKR 3.3 million on the players who put their performance into the game.

Salman Ali Agha, who will lead the national side during the upcoming New Zealand trip in the shortest format, got a fine of PKR 500000 alongside the two openers Ayub and Shafique. They returned to the hotel late during their white-ball trip to Australia, and that shows the effect the board has started to put on the disciplinary action.

During the trip to South Africa, the left-arm wrist-spinner, Sufiyan Muqeem, fast bowler Abbas Afridi, and batter Usman Khan returned later to the hotel and received a fine of nearly 200 dollars each. However, they got the fine back as a reward for the superb ODI series clean sweep victory against the Proteas in a stunning 3-0 series result.

Amar Jamal fined heavily for writing 804 on his Test cap

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) put a huge fine on the pacer, Aamer Jamal, for writing 804 on his Test cap. This number holds a huge significance as it’s related to the legendary all-rounder and former captain, Imran Khan, who is currently in jail.

Imran is also a former Prime Minister of the country and is now in jail. Jamal, however, wrote the number on his Test cap to show the solidarity towards him. But that was an indication of involving politics, religious, and racial statements for which the PCB fined him.

Jamal was not part of the Champions Trophy 2025 squad for a particular reason. The board wasn’t happy with their behavior and didn’t tolerate it all for showing such actions.

Pakistan seeks better performance in next ICC event

When the 2017 winners of the Champions Trophy won three successive away series against Australia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, no one believed they would display a poor show in 2025 at home. They showed a very poor performance in the tri-series, losing both the group stage contest and the final, against New Zealand.

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The Mohammad Rizwan-led side started the tournament with a defeat against the Kiwis at the National Stadium in Karachi, as they failed to chase 321 runs in the second innings on the back of Babar Azam’s 64 runs in 90 balls.

In the second encounter, they could put 242 runs in the first innings before Virat Kohli’s unbeaten century shouldered India over the line. Pakistan’s third and final group-stage encounter against Bangladesh at the Rawalpindi Stadium ended in a no-result due to persistent rain.

Now Pakistan shifts their focus on the shortest format to do well in the upcoming 2026 T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka.