LAHORE, Oct 9: Fifty probables have been invited for the final trials to select 28 under-14 players for the Pakistan Steel Mills Hockey Academy.

The trials will be held here from Oct 17 to 19. The called up probables should report on Oct 16. They should bring Form ‘B’, school and birth certificates.

PROBABLES:

GOALKEEPERS: Razaullah, Rizwan Hussain, Afzal Shaukat, Salim Khan, Muhammad Iqbal

RIGHT FULL-BACKS: Kashif Ali, Sohail Iqbal, Ataur Rehman, Akhtar Rasool

LEFT FULL-BACKS: Waqas Aleem, Aamir Saeed, Nadeem Ahmad, Shahzad Aslam

RIGHT-HALVES: Mohammad Naveed, Aamir Ali, Waheed Farzand, Aqeel Bhatti

CENTRE-HALVES: Mohammad Kamran, Majid Ali, Akhlaq Ahmad, Aneeq Asghar

LEFT-HALVES: Noman Mukhtar, Waseem Iqbal, Khurram Shahzad

RIGHT-OUTS: Ehsanullah, Sher Wali Shah, Azhar Abbas, Mohammad Tajammul, Mohammad Rizwan

RIGHT-INS: Mohammad Imran, Arshad Ali, Irfan  Ali, Mohammad Rashid, Mohsin Zafar, Mobin Riaz.

CENTRE-FORWARDS: Inayatullah, Waqaruddin, Agha M. Baqar, Sibtain Raza, Waqas Hussain, Ibrahim Khan

LEFT-INS: Syed Osama Shah, Mustansar Shah, Shafqat Rasool, Arshad Ali, Mohammad Shahbaz.

LEFT-OUTS: Kamran Khan, Mohammad Naeem Khan, Rashid Mehmood, Shahbaz Ahmad.

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