KARACHI: Faisalabad will take on Quetta in the opening fixture of the 6th National Disabled T20 Cricket Championship which will be inaugurated by ex-Pakistan skipper and PDCA president Rashid Latif at the RLCA Gulberg Ground here on Monday.

Although the official ceremony will be held at 12:30pm, the Faisalabad-Quetta match would begin at 9:30am. On the same day, Hyderabad will meet Quetta Bolan at TMC Ground at 9:30am followed by af ternoon matches, starting at 1:300pm, in which hosts Karachi play Bahawalpur at the RLCA Gulberg and reigning champions Multan clash with Sargodha at the TMC Ground.

The league phase of the competition runs until Wednesday, while the semi-finals and final will be held on Thursday.

The participating teams have been divided into two pools. Group `A` includes Karachi, Faisalabad, Quetta and Bahawalpur while Group `B` consists of Multan, Hyderabad, Quetta Bolan and Sargodha.

Schedule: Jan 1: FaisalabadysQuetta(RLCAGulbergGround,9:30am); HyderabadwQuetta (TMC Ground, 9:30am); Karachi vs Bahawalpur (RLCA, 1:30pm); Multan w Sargodha (TMC, 1:30pm).

Jan 2: Karachi w Quetta (RLCA, 9:30am); Sargodha w Quetta Bolan (TMC, 9:30am); Faisalabad w Bahawalpur (RLCA, 1:30pm); Multan vs Hyderabad (TMC, 1:30pm).

Jan 3: Bahawalpur vs Quetta (RLCA, 9:30am); Hyderabad w Sargodha (TMC, 9:30am); Karachi vs Faisalabad (RLCA, 1:30pm); Multan w Quetta Bolan (TMC, 1:30pm).

Jan 4: Semi-finals (RLCA and TMC, 9:30am); Final (RLCA, 1:30pm).

Squads: KARACHI: Ameer Ahmed (captain), Rao Javed, Danish Ahmed, Arif Richard, Mohammad Zeeshan, Ali Raza, Haroon Rasheed, Abdul Rehman, Ahmed Raza, Ishaq Junior, Mohammad Kalam, Ali Askari, Iqbal Hussain, Noman Shabbir, FarhanSaeed, Mohammad Anas; Saeed Ali (manager), Qamber Ali(coach).

MULTAN: Matloob Qureshi (captain), Jahanzaib Tiwana, Umaiz-ur-Rehman, Zubair Saleem, Majid Hussain, Mohammad Haris, Mohammad Asif, Farhan Ali, Abdul Mannan, Mohammad Sarfraz, Mohammad Babar, Tahir, MohammadSaqib, Mohammad Imran, Allah Dutta; Mansoor Latifi (coach-cum-manager).

HYDERABAD: Abdul Jabbar, Babar Ali, Hamza, Danish, Tayyab Ali, Fahim Wasan, Aaqib Ali, `Ihf ail Abro, Ubaid Pathan, Abdul Rehman, Tauseef Ahmed, Yasir Ali, Mohammad Javed, Noman Ali, Adil Ali Khan; Iqbal Malik (coach-cum-manager).

BAHAWALPUR: Tanvir Hussain (captain), Marghoob Alam, Mohammad Shahzad, Nazim, Gul Hussain, Adnan Waqar, Asif, Mohammad Lal, Mohammad Abid, Ghulam Mustafa, Abdul Khalig ,Ameer bin Javed, Taimur Khan, Ali Ahmed, MohammadSufyan; Mohammad Bilal (coach-cum-manager) FA]SALABAD: Wasif-ur-Rehman (captain), Adnan Butt) ,Rehan Ghani Mirza, Adnan Ali, Mohammad Waqas, MohammadSaqlain, Mohammad Asif, Mian Anamullah Khan Bhatti ,Khurram Shahzad , Mohammad Arsalan Arif, Sajjad Akbar, Bilal Hussain, Abdullah Mubashir, Mohammad Amir Sohail, Samir Ashraf; Najaf Ali (coach-cum-manager) SARGODHA: Khawar Ali (captain), Hafiz Irshad Hussain, Shujaat Ali, Ahsan Khalil. Mohammad Zahir. Zaffar Hamain. Mustafa Khalil. MohammadShoaib. Mohammad Akram, Mohammad Yousuf, Asad Ali, Ali Raza, Zeeshan Amjad, Saifullah, Mohammad Hasnain; MohammadAslam(coach-cum-manager).

QUETTA: Abdullah Khan (captain),Saifullah Khan, Nusratullah, Nizam Baloch, Ali Bakhsh, Abdu1Sattar, Allauddin, Shahid Khan, Shabaz Khan, Abdul Hameed, Abdul Hadi, Sohail Khan, Sher Ahmad, Javed Khan, Ulas Yar; Fareed Kamal (manager), Alam Jamaldini (coach).

QUETTA BOLAN: MohammadQasim (captain), Abdul Mannan, Zaheer Ahmed, Mohammad Iqbal, Siraj Khan, Shah Khalid, Arsalan, Mehboob, Waheed Khan, Umar Farooq, Jahangir, Marvia, Mohammad Ali, Noman, Fawad; Zafeer Rashid (coach).