June 29, 2007	Friday	Jamadi-us-Sani 13, 1428

LAHORE, June 28: The Pakistan Under-19 team for next month’s tour of England will be announced on July 2. Chairman national junior selection committee Col Naushad Ali told Dawn that his committee would meet in Lahore on July 2 to announce the team. Pakistan will play four one-dayers and two four-day games in England from July 25 to Aug 25.

Naushad added that the selected team would attend a training camp in Abbottabad from July 5 till their departure to England.

He said the selectors would also pick 24 players for each regional academy on July 3, adding the inter-regional academies matches will be held from July 10 to Oct 3.

He stated the other major assignments of the junior selection committee were the Under-19 team for the home series against Australia (Oct 1 to 13), squad for another home series against Bangladesh (Nov 7 to 27) and a team for the return tour of Bangladesh besides the line-up for the Junior World Cup in Malaysia, to be staged in March 2008.

Meanwhile, clarifying a news item, Naushad claimed that the junior selectors had been watching the ongoing inter-district matches since their start on June 15, however admitted that an announcement in this regard was made on June 26 after some delay.