LAHORE, May 16: The Pakistan Cricket Board’s (pcb) six regional academies and two coaching clinics for Under-19 cricketers will start functioning from May 19, it was officially announced on Friday.
The six-week clincis will run till June 28 and will be held at Gaddafi Stadium (Lahore), Regional Academy (Karachi), Multan Cricket Stadium, KRL (Rawalpindi), Arbab Niaz Stadium (Peshawar), Jawad Sports Complex (Faisalabad), Ayub Stadium (Quetta) and Rani Bagh ground (Hyderabad).
The clinics will be day events only and will run between 1630 hours to 1900 hours.
Former Test pacer Jalaluddin will be the chief coach at Karachi and he will be assisted by Haris Khan. Intenational Ali Zia will be the chief coach at Multan with Abdul Majid as his deputy.
Shahid Aslam will be the chief coach at Lahore with Azhar Khan as his assistant. Test pacer Aqib Javed will be the chief coach at Faisalabad with Mansoor Rana as his deputy. Naveed Anjum will be the incharge at Rawalpindi. He will be assisted by Sabih Azhar. Taimur Azam will look after the academy in Peshawar with Rizwan Khateeb as his assistant.
The coaching clinics at Hyderabad and Quetta will be managed by Tasleem Arif and Raj Hans respectively with Hafeezur Rehman and Sagheer Abbas as their deputies.
All the coaches will be paid Rs37,500 for the six-week assignment while each player will get a stipend of Rs3,000.
Chairman of selectors Aamir Sohail said the six-week sessions were being organized to create awareness amongst the the youngsters how the game should be viewed and played.
According to the details, the number of students at Faisalabad and Karachi are 25, each with eight and six reserves, respectively. In all other stations, the number of students are 24. Eight students are in reserves at Peshawar, Multan, and Quetta each. The reserves at Lahore are 10, at Rawalpindi- Islamabad 9, Karachi six and Hyderabad four.
Reserves: Asif Ijaz, Raza Ali Dar, Salman Akbar Butt, Jawad Butt, Usama Aftab, Faisal Javed, Yasir hashmi, Umar Aziz Khan, Adnan Akmal, Zafar Iqbal.
PESHAWAR REGION: Rizwan Khateeb. Depty): Mohammad Naeem, Mohammad Idrees, Akbar Badshah, Yasir Arafat, Farhan Habib, Mahfooz Sabri, Inamullah, Shahid Khan, Riaz Qail, Mohammad Majeed, Irfan Sarfraz, Riaz Afridi, Shah Faisal, Kamran Ali, Sheheryar Khan, Mohammad Gulraiz, Aizaz Khan, Mohammad Ali, Fahad Zaman, Hidayatullah, Zohaib Khan, Rahim Baz Khan, Malik Imran, Kashif Hayat.
Reserves: Bilal Khan, Johar Khan, Shahbab Nasir, Imtiaz Afridi, Naveed Afridi, Fawad Ali, Mushtaq Afridi, Nawaz Ahmad.
KARACHI REGION: Khalid Latif, Asad Shafiq, Mubashir Ahmad, Mohammad Fahim, Navaid Khan, Khurram Manzoor, Atif Ali Zaidi, Asadullah Soomeri, Fahad Iqbal, Fawad Alam, Faraz Patel, Uzair-ul-Haq, Naseer Khan, Sharif Asadullah, Adeel Malik, Saeed Khan, Faraz Ahmad Khan, Asif Hamid, Mohammad Ali Zafar, Noman Alvi, Raheel Waris, Humayun Alamgir, Azam Hussain, Naeem Ahmad Khan, Naveed-ul-Haq.
HYDERABAD CLINIC: Sikandar Ali, Abdul Rauf, Kashif Ali, Mohammad Mansoor, Mohammad Azeem Ghani, Jamshed Baig, Salman Haider, Aqeel Anjum, Fahad Khan, Abid Ali Qureshi, Shahzad Ali, Mohammad Ehsan, Asad Khan, Sufyan Ali, Farhan Ayub, Faisal Anis, Aneel Iqbal, Shoaib Leghari, Farrukh Khan, Agha Tahir, Ghulam Yasin, Syed Rehan, Arif Sabir, Tariq Usman.
Reserves: Pir Zulifqar, Furqan Azeem, Nabi Mohammad, Mohammad Wasim.
QUETTA CLINIC: Kottan Khan, Arbab Shakir, Zahoor Ahmad, Gohar Faiz, Syed Sami Ahmad, Kamran Khar, Mohammad Qasim, Mohammad Umar Ajmal, Syed Shahid Ali, Mohammad Farooq, Hasnain Ali, Shaukat Ali, Arun Lal, Hameed Khan, Shuja Khan, Shoaib Khan, Umair Liaqat (Quetta), Khalil Ahmed (Chaghi), Jalat Khan (Sibi), Mohammad Adil, Ataullah, Badar Ali, Khalid Nazir (Noshki), Shahid Hameed (Hub). Reserves: Shoaib Agha, Imranullah, Najeebullah, Izatullah (Quetta), Mohammad Amin, Mohammad Shakir, Mohammad Umer, Jalil Ahmad.