KARACHI, May 8: Karachi City Cricket Association (KCCA) is launching a plan to prepare, train and groom promising young left-arm spinners.

KCCA has invited the young and upcoming left-arm spinners to appear in the open trial at TMC Ground, Federal ‘B’ Area, on May 23 at 3pm.

Interested left-arm spinners from upcountry can also appear at the trials.

Pakistan cricket has felt acute shortage of quality left-arm spinners for several decades. In the past Karachi produced a good number of top class slow left-armers including Nasim-ul-Ghani, Pervez Sajjad, Munawwar Hussain, late Prince Aslam Khan and M.R. Ghani, Khurshid Akhtar, Iqbal Qasim, Abdul Raquib, Nadeem Khan, Naeem Ahmed and Mubashir Sajjad.

A selection panel consisting of Nasim-ul-Ghani, Col Shujauddin Butt, Iqbal Qasim, Abdul Raquib and Munawwar Hussain have been formed to pick the talented spinners who will be groomed into top class performers.

The selected cricketers, who will be given further training by KCCA with Naeem Ahmed named as camp commandant, are directed to register their themselves with KCCA secretary Sirajul Islam Bukhari at KCCA office, National Stadium on any working day between 4 and 8pm.—APP