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| June 19, 2003 | Thursday | Rabi-us-Sani 18, 1424 |
Ikhlaq suffers injury
KARACHI, June 18: Junior team penalty corner striker Ikhlaq Ahmed suffered a hard blow on the back of the right hand during the ongoing training camp of Pakistan junior team for the upcoming tour of Europe.
Camp Commandant and junior team manager Col (Retd) Abdul Rauf said Wednesday that Ikhlaq got the blow during a penalty corner and his hand was swollen after ball was hit on the back of his hand.
Well build Ikhlaq was taken for initial check-up and result of an X-Ray is awaited before it will be determined what is the extent of his injury.
In the meantime Pakistan junior team management including has shortlisted the boys from 62 to 43.
These boys will continue their training at Pakistan Steel Township and two-day trials to pick 20-member Pakistan junior squad for international events in Spain and in Poland will start from June 26.
Chief of Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) General Muhammad Aziz Khan will announced the team on June 27 after he himself witnessed the trials with member of the selection committee headed by Akhtar Rasool.
Besides 20 players eight standbys will be picked to continue their training till their departure for Spain on July 21.
Following 43 boys have be retained for the second phase of the camp and trials.
Goalkeeper: M.Adeel Anwar (Rilways), Shakir Munir (ABL), M.Iqbal (Punjab), M.Rizwan (Army).
Right back: Ikhlaq Ahmed (Police), Usman Akram (Punjab), Kashif Islam (Punjab), Majid Khan (PTCL).
Left back: M.Tariq Yameen (PTCL), Adnan Hamid (Sindh), M.Ateeq (Gojra), M.Javed (Army).
Right half: Imran Khan (HBL), M.Abu Bakar (Railways), Wasif Khan (NBP).
Centre half: M.Imran (Army), M.Khalid Mahmood (ABL), Bilal Saeed (Punjab), Zaheer Ahmed (Railways).
Left Half: Sajjad Anwar (PTCL), Abdul Asim Khan (NBP), Aamir Shahzad (POF), M.Khaliq (PTCL).
Right out: Muhammad Arif (PTCL), M.Owais Khan (NBP), Syed Mudassir Abbas (Sindh), Imran Khan (Sindh), Atif Yaqoob (PTCL).
Right in: Adnan Zakir (NBP), Yasir Islam (NWFP), Khurram Butt (Gujranwala), Ishtique Ahmed (TT Singh).
Centre forward: Mahmood Ali (Railways), Shabbir Ahmed Khan (Sindh), Akhtar Ali (PTCL), M.Arshad (Army).
Left in: Tariq Aziz (PTCL), M.Naeem Akber (NBP), Kashif Yaqoob (Punjab), M.Imran Ali (Faisalabad).
Left out: Asif Bilal (Lahore), Syed Abbas Haider (Sindh) and Mustansar Shaikh (Punjab).—APP
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