ISLAMABAD, June 25: Pakistan will begin their first ever volleyball Test series against traditional rivals India at the Liaquat Gymnasium, Pakistan Sports Complex on Tuesday. The Pakistan Volleyball Federation (PVF) chief Chaudhry Yaqoob said arrangement for the eight-match Test series has been completed. The inaugural match of the series will be played at 4:30pm.

He added the second game of the series would be held at the POF Gymnasium, Wah on June 28, third at the Qayyum Sports Complex, Peshawar on June 30 while the fourth and final encounter of the first leg of the series will be staged at the Wapda Sports Complex, Lahore on July 2.

The next four matches of the series will be organised in India in the first week of August.

Pakistan squad: Mohammad Zaman (Police, captain), Irfan Nawaz (Wapda), Mohammad Yasin (Army), Mohammad Zahid (Army), M. Tariq Wasim (Police), Ashfaq Hussain (Army), Kashif Mansoor (Police), Naeem Jan (Army), Muhib Rasool (Police), Sayyad (PAF), Naseer Ahmed (Police), Zaheer Abbas (Army), Ali Abbas (Wapda), Mohammad Farooq (Wapda), Mohammad Azhar (Pakistan Steel), Mohammad Riaz (PAF), Bakht Rasal (Army), Mohammad Ismail (PAF).

Indian squad (for the first leg):

Ukkra Pandian, Blawinder Singh, Vibin M. George, Lalit Kumar, Rampal Singh, Sube Singh, Somnathgiri Gowda, Mandeep Singh, Darshan Singh, P.S Srikanth, Gurchand Singh, K.P. Sayem, G Pardeep, Shelton Moses, Surdeep, Vijesh. —Agencies