LAHORE, May 4: Saeed Anwar, Aaqib Javed and Ali Zia have been appointed as batting, bowling and fielding coaches to conduct two courses of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).

The PCB has launched a six-week Certificate Programme at the National Cricket Academy in Lahore on Tuesday that will be attended by 25 cricketers between the age group of 17 and 19.

Another programme, the 10-week Graduation Programme, to be attended by 25 cricketers between the age group of 19 and 22 will commence at the NCA from June 28. Meanwhile, the six-week regional academies in nine cities will also commence from May 24 for which the PCB has appointed its coaches.

The coaches are: Mohsin Kamal, Shahid Aslam (both Lahore), Sadiq Mohammad and Rashid Khan (both Karachi), Azeem Hafeez and Mohtashim Rasheed (both Multan), Raj Hans and Athar Laiq (both Quetta), Mansoor Akhtar and Hafeez-ur-Rehman (both Hyderabad), Naveed Anjum and Naveed Nazir (both Faisalabad), Anis Siddique and Javed Hayat (both Sialkot), Taimur Azam and Sagheer Abbas (both Rawalpindi/Islamabad) and Sabih Azhar and Maqsood Kundi (both Peshawar).

The 25 cricketers attending the six-week Certificate Programme are:

Lahore: Nasir Jamsheed, Adnan Raza, Jahangir Mirza, Abid Ali, Salman Akbar Butt, Raza Ali Dar, Jamsheed Ahmed, Sakhawat Salamat.

Karachi: Fawad Alam, Fahad Iqbal, Mohammad Ali Zafar, Uzair-ul- Haq, Asadullah Sharif.

Faisalabad: Akhtar Rasool, Ghulam Dastagir, Kamran Naeem.

Rawalpindi: Mohammad Fayyaz.

Multan: Yasir Arafat, Aqeel Arshad.

Sialkot: Nawaz Sardar, Bilal Butt.

Peshawar: Fahad Zaman, Nasir Ahmed.

Hyderabad: Kashif Bhatti.

The 25 cricketers to attend the Graduation Programme are:

Bahawalpur: Asif Iqbal, Usman Tariq.

Lahore: Adnan Zaheer, Sohail Ahmed, Salman Qadir, Wahad Riaz, Mohammad Khalil, Wasim Khan, Zulqarnain, Adnan Akmal, Khaqan Arsal.

Karachi: Khurram Manzoor, Khalid Latif, Asif Zakir, Faraz Patel, Adeel Malik, Azam Hussain.

Sialkot: Shahid Yousuf, Mansoor Amjad, Tariq Mohammad.

AJK: Afaq Raheem

Rawalpindi: Usman Saeed.

Peshawar: Riaz Afridi

Gujranwala: Ali Imran Pasha

NWFP: Yasir Shah.