04 March 2005	Friday	22 Muharram 1426

LAHORE, March 3: Indian and Japanese under-21 hockey teams will be arriving on Friday to take part in the 4-Nation tournament to be played from March 7 at National stadium.

The tournament which ends on March 13 involves, hosts Pakistan, India, South Africa and Japan. South African team will reach on March 5, said Brig (retd) Musarrat Ullah Khan, Secretary, Pakistan Hockey Federation here on Thursday at a news conference.

He said A.S. Bawa from India has been appointed tournament director, Rana Zafar Ullah (Pak) tournament officer, Rashad Mahmood Butt (Pak) umpires, Qazi Masoodur Rauf (Pak) judge, Ravi Irugalbandara (Sri Lanka) as neutral umpire.

"All the participating countries will be having their one umpire each in the penal which comprises Mahmood Anwar Dar (Pak), Suresh Bhatia (India), Satoshi Kondo (Japan), Peter Wright (South Africa).

Following are the names of the teams of Pakistan, South Africa and Japan. PHF, he said, has not yet received the names of players of the Indian team. The meeting of the technical officials of the tournament will be held on March 6.

PAKISTAN: Nasir Ahmed, Imran Muhammad, Imran Warsi, Imran Khan, Khalid Mahmood Muhammad, Asim Khan, Adnan Zakir, Kashif Yaqoob, Shakeel Abbasi, Tariq Aziz, Akhtar Muhammad, Iqbal Muhammad, Akhlaq Muhamamd, Sajjad Anwar, Yasir Islam, Arif Islam, Asif Rana, Ishtiaq Muhammad. (Head coach) Tahir Zaman, (coach) Khawaja Junaid,(manager) Muhammad Shafiq.

SOUTH AFRICA: Dru Hewson (GK), Jono Griffin, Pierree Geldenhuys, Andrew Cronje (Capt), Tommy Hammond, Austin Smith, Wayne Madsen, Jonty Robinson, Zeno Rossouw, Leroy Phillips, Lungile Tsolekile, Marvin Harper, Kyle Rhodes, Geowynne Gamiet, Matthew Mcconkey, Wade Paton, Vaughn Erasmus, Aiden Colling (GK). (Coach) Mark Hensberg,(Assistant coach) Paul Revington, (Manager) Igsaan Ajam. (Japan) Yasunori Yamasaki (GK), Takaomi Aoki (GK) Koji Kayukawa, Tsuyoshi Fujimaki, Kazuki Shiokawa, Toshihiro momonari, Takayasu Mizawa, Kei Kawakami, Shinya Takahashi, Takuro Ueda, Katsuyoshi Nagasawa, Kyota Nagaya, Tomonori Ono, Hiroto Noda, Masato Hikigi, Tatsunori Fujii, Yoshiro Sugai, Takayuki Takeshita. (Coach) Numada Hideki, (Manager) Yamanaka Manabu.

SCHEDULE: (Mar 7) India vs South Africa, Pak vs Japan (Mar 8) South Africa vs Japan, Pak vs India (Mar 9) REST DAY (Mar 10) Pak vs South Africa, India vs Japan (Mar 11) REST DAY (Mar 12) 1st semi final, 2nd semi final (Mar 13) 3rd and 4th place match, 1st and 2nd (final match). -APP