December 25, 2003	Thursday	Ziqa’ad 1, 1424

Please Visit our Sponsor (Ads open in separate window)

KARACHI, Dec 24: Pakistan Cricket (PCB) on Wednesday invited more than 70 players for trials to be conducted at Karachi and Lahore in preparation for next month’s Junior (Under-17) Asia Cup in India.

Trials at Karachi are to be held at National Stadium on Sunday (Dec 28), starting at 10.00am with cricketers from Karachi, Hyderabad and Quetta taking part.

The trials at Lahore on Tuesday (Dec 30) at Gaddafi Stadium, also beginning from 10.00am onwards, will have players belonging to various regions of Punjab.

Apart from the players selected on the basis of appearing in the Pepsi Clinic, Under-15 Asia Cup in the UAE and PCB regional academies, anyone whose name is missing from the list is free to attend the trials at his own expense.

The following have been invited:

Karachi: Ahmed Iqbal, Azhar Shah,

Owais Rahman, Asif Hamid, Mohammad Fahim, Sarfraz Ahmed, Amir Khan, Fazal Mohammad Khan, Ramiz Raja, Waqar Haroon, Faraz Patel, Shaan Masood, Mohsin Sultan, Tabish-ur-Rehman, Irfan Qureshi, Humayun Alamgir, Zahid Khan.

Hyderabad: Mohammad Adnan, Sohail Khan, Sharjeel Khan.

Quetta: Rohail Younis, Salman Ali.

Peshawar: Hadayat Khan, Tariq Afridi, Fahad Zaman, Najeeb Afridi, Nasir Ahmed, Yasir Arafat.

Faisalabad: Waqas Nazar, Nayyar Abbas, Zunair Abbas, Mohammad Usman, Kamran Mustafa.

Gujranwala: Waqar Azmat, Mohammad Asif, Fahad Asif, Ali Hasan, Aamir Yousuf.

Sheikhupura: Nawaz Sardar, Suleman Ali.

Islamabad: Kamran Hussain Bhatti, Mohammad Fayyaz, Nauman Masood, Ali Sarfraz.

Mianwali: Mohammad Kashif, Osama Haroon.

Bhalwal: Abdul Mannan.

Lahore: Adnan Raza, Raza Ali Dar, Nasir Jamshed, Imran Maqsood, Usman Ilyas, Salman Afzal, Kashif Mahmood, Sameer Akram, Aqeel Ahmed, Ramiz Shahzad Altaf, Ahmed Butt, Abbas Ali, Qasim Saeed, Saadullah Ghauri, Salman Akbar, Zain Shahnawaz, Asim Naseer, Asadullah.

Multan: Arshad Ali, Fayyaz-ul-Hasan, Farhan Pervez.