November 4, 2002	Monday	Sha’aban 28,1423

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LAHORE, Nov 3: National selection committee Sunday  announced four teams for the Super League One-day Ramazan Cup, starting at Gaddafi Stadium from Nov 11.

Former Test captains Moin Khan and Wasim Akram will lead Team ‘A’ and Team ‘D’ respectively while two more Test rejects, Azhar Mahmood and Shoaib Malik, have been nominated to captain Team ‘C’ and Team ‘B’, respectively.

Wasim, Azhar and Misbah-ul-Haq, who are in Pakistan’s one-day squad for series against Zimbabwe, will be available for first few games before they leave for Harare.

Selectors will name replacements for the trio later.

All teams will be allocated names once the sponsorship  deals are finalised.

Chief selector, Wasim Bari, first picked top 60 performers of last season and then included players who did well in the recent tournaments.

 “The teams are of equal strength and we expect the matches to  be competitive besides producing some real good talent,” Bari remarked.

PCB also decided the timing of the matches. Some matches will be played in day, some will be day/night fixtures and  some entirely during the night. However, according to the schedule  issued by PCB only the day/night matches were mentioned while there was no clearance about the other matches.

Squads:

Team ‘A’: Moin Khan (Karachi, captain), Shadab Kabir (Karachi), Naved Latif (Sargodha, vice-captain), Shahid Qambrani (Hyderabad), Kamran Sajid (Lahore), Farhan Adil (Karachi), Riffatullah (Peshawar), Qaiser Abbas (Muridke), Tahir Mughal (Sialkot), Amin-ur-Rehman (Karachi), Fazle Akbar (Peshawar), Zahid Saeed (Sialkot), Faisal Irfan (Quetta), Irfanuddin (Karachi), Danish Kaneria (Karachi).

Team ‘B’: Shoaib Malik (Sialkot, captain), Mohammad Ramzan (Faisalabad, vice-captain), Zeeshan Mohsin (Peshawar), Bazid Khan (Lahore), Asim Kamal (Karachi), Khaqan Arsal (Lahore), Azizullah (Quetta), Zulqarnain (Lahore), Idrees Ahmed (Gujrat), Kamran Younis (Gujranwala), Azhar Ali (Lahore), Kashif Raza (Sheikhupura), Jaffar Nazir (Sheikhupura), Shabbir Ahmed (Khanewal), Najaf Shah (Rawalpindi).

Team ‘C’: Azhar Mahmood (Islamabad, captain), Imran  Farhat (Lahore), Salman Butt (Lahore), Ijaz Ahmed Jr  (Faisalabad), Usman Tariq (Bahawalpur), Asim Munir (Gujranwala), Babar Naeem (Rawalpindi), Bilal Asad (Islamabad), Salman Qadir (Lahore), Atiq-uz-Zaman (Karachi, vice-captain), Adnan Akmal (Lahore), Rana Naveed-ul-Hasan (Sheikhupura), Umar Gul (Peshawar),  Abdur Rauf (Okara), Abdul Rehman (Sialkot).

Team ‘D’: Wasim Akram (Lahore, captain), Imran Nazir (Sheikhupura), Saeed Anwar (Lahore, vice-captain), Misbah-ul-Haq (Sargodha), Yasir Hameed (Peshawar), Naumanullah  (Karachi), Sufyan Munir (Gujrat), Khalid Latif (Karachi), Afaq Raheem (Azad Kashmir), Yasir Arafat (Rawalpindi), Humayun  Farhat (Lahore), Junaid Zia (Rawalpindi), Faisal Afridi (Sargodha), Waqar Ahmed (Peshawar), Aqeel Ahmed (Faisalabad).

Following are the match timings:

Day matches:

0830-1200: Play

1200-1220: Change of innings.

1220-1330: Play

1330-1400: Break for Zuhr prayers

1400-1620: Play.

Day/night matches:

1200-1330: Play

1330-1400: Break for Zuhr prayers

1400-1600: Play

1600-2100: Break for Iftar, Maghrib and Taraweeh prayers

2100-0030: Play

Night match:

2100-0030: Play

0030-0050: Change of innings

0050-0420: Play.