June 17, 2003	Tuesday	Rabi-us-Sani 16, 1424

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LAHORE, June 16: Twenty-seven youngsterss were picked on Monday  for the Pepsi-PCB-Imran Lahore regional cricket clinic after four days of initial trials at Gaddafi Stadium.

The selected players are advised to report to chief coach Mohsin Kamal at Gaddafi Stadium on Tuesday at 3.00pm.

Following players were selected:

Batsmen: Ajmal Khan, Umar Akmal (Cricket Centre), Ahmed Butt,  Mohammad Shafiq (Moghalpura Club), Mahrooz Khan (Victories Club),  Nauman Shah (Model Town Club), Asim Abbas (Shafqat Rana Academy),  Nasir Mudassar, Waqas Ahmed (Model Town Greens), Mohammad Asif (P and T Gymkhana), Hafiz Asim Zakir (Crescent Club), Najees Khalid (Chauburji Gymkhana) and Mohammad Junaid Malik (Shafqat Rana Academy).

Fast bowlers: Syed Imran Ali (Muslim Model School), Mohammad Shahzad (Muslim Gymkhana), Kamil Majeed (Shafqat Rana Academy), Ghulam Mustafa (Cricket Centre), Mohammad Faraz (Moghalpura Club), Syed Umair (Model Town Club) and Basharat Hussain (Model Town Greens).

Spinners: Mohsin Latif (Muslim Gymkhana), Rana Shahroz (Cricket Centre), Usman Malik (Shinning Club), Usman Ilyas (Victories Club), Usman Ali Javed (Free Batters Club).

Wicket-keepers: Mohsin Abbas (Victories Club) and Mohammad Rizwan  (Muslim Model School).

Our Sports Reporter adds from Karachi: Out of the final list of 70 announced on Saturday, 24 players were named for the Karachi academy on Monday.

Former Pakistan players Sikander Bakht and Iqbal Sikander will start coaching these players at National Stadium from Tuesday, starting at 9.00am.

Following are the list of Karachi players:

Opening batsmen: Zeeshan Jamil (KCCA Zone-III), Behram Khan (Zone-III), Owais Khan (Pak U-15) and Annan Arif (Zone-I).

Wicket-keepers: Sandeep Kumar (Zone-I), Mobin Alam (Zone-III), Spinners: Samiullah (Zone-VI) and Mohammad Ijlal Ahmed (Zone-III).

Fast bowlers: Zaheer Abbas, Mohsin Abbasi (Zone-II), Shukaib Ahmed (Zone-III) and Mohammad Haroon.

All-rounders: Fazal Mohammad Khan (Pakistan U-15 captain), Syed Asad Ali (Zone-IV), Tabish-ur-Rehman (Zone-III), Ammar Sikander (Zone-IV), Abdul Saad (Zone-VI), Shahzaib Bashir (Zone-II), Ahmed Iqbal Khan (Zone-I), Waqas Haroon (Zone-I), Ausaf Rabbani (Zone-III), Rameez Raja (Zone-III) and Farhan Rafiq (Zone-II).

Our Sports Reporter adds from Rawalpindi: Following a series of trials that had to be extended by a day because of an overwhelming response, 24 players were chosen for the Rawalpindi region.

They would now attend a two-week training camp starting at the same venue from Tuesday.

Batsmen: Fawad Hussain, Ali Sarfraz, Umar Amin, Asif Mumtaz, Arslan Abbasi, Hafiz Waqas, Qasim Khan, Rizwan Manzoor, Hamid Riaz and Atif Hussain Shah.

Fast bowlers: Mubashir Ishfaq, Tanveer Afzal, Mahmood Azam, Abdul Majid and Fahad Ali.

Spinners: Qamar Abbas, Yasim Murtaza and Imran Zahid.

All-rounders: M. Noman Ali, Mubashir Javed, Samiullah and Najam-ul-Hasan.

Wicket-keepers: Usman Murtaza and M. Ikram Khan.

Our Correspondent adds from Hyderabad: Coaches of Regional Clinic Hyderabad, Taslim Arif and Saghir Abbas, picked 23 cricketers who will be imparted training at Niaz Stadium.

The final list is:

Sharjeel Khan, Mohammad Sohail, Zohaib Leghari, Altaf Rizvi, Sarfraz Khan, Junaid Noor, Saif Khan, Junaid Iqbal, Mohammad Arshad, Junaid Khan, Rasheed Ali, Arsalan Ahmed, Mohammad Sohaib, Najib-ur-Rehman, Mohammad Rizwan, Arif Ali and Abid Qureshi (all from Hyderabad), Mohammed Faisal, Tariq Shah and Jahanzeb Chandio (Dadu), Rafique Bhatti and Shahzad Haider (Nawabshah) and Khawar Abbas (Thatta).

Besides the following reserve players were also selected:

Shaharyar Akbar, Arsalan Hafeez, Afzal Ali, Rizwan Bilal, Jawwad Chundrigar and Shakir Hussain (all of Hyderabad), Fahad Yasir (Dadu), Zeeshan Jan (Thatta) and Aitazaz Zaidi (Nawabshah).

The selected players are to report on Tuesday at 7.00am at Niaz Stadium.