July 14, 2007	Saturday	Jamadi-us-Sani 28, 1428

LAHORE, July 13: Several under-performers have surprisingly made it to the list of players named by the Pakistan Cricket Board for the 11 regional cricket academies which start working in different cities from Monday.

The selection of players this time has come about without any trials being held which is also quite puzzling for everyone. In the past, at least one representative of the National Cricket Academy and two from the respective regions watched the top probables of the Inter-district Under-19 tournament to select players for the academies but the same has not happened this year.

“The Junior selection committee in consultation with Director Game Development (Mudassar Nazar) has given the names of the players for the 11 regional academies starting from July 16, 2007,” a PCB press release stated.

The list contains the names of a number of players who have been selected despite their mediocre performances. For example, in the Lahore region, one Muzzamil Ikram Butt of East Zone Whites has been named despite his poor record which shows that he has taken no wicket and have scored only 37 runs.

Also, one Shoaib Iqbal who took seven wickets has been selected while another players Naeem Akram, who bagged nine wickets, has been ignored. Similarly, Fahad Karim of East Zone Whites is included in the list of 30 students after claiming just three wickets while Adeel Hameed of the same zone, who picked up five wickets, was ignored.

In the Abbottabad region, Mohammad Umar of Tank district, who took two wickets and also scored only 11 runs was preferred over Asif Javed and Mohammad Kamran who earned 13 and eight wickets respectively. The top scorer of Tank district, Naseebullah (101 runs) has also been ignored.

In the Peshawar region, Mohammad Adnan (Peshawar) scored only one run and took no wicket but was included. In the Islamabad region, Moeed Ahmed Shaikh has been selected for taking only one wicket.

There are also several errors in the first or second names of various players which is creating confusion in keeping track of their performances.

The boys are advised to report to the incharge of their respective academies on Sunday. For Lahore and Karachi, 30 students each have been selected while for nine other regions, the numbers are 24 each, making it a grand total of 276. The duration of the academies is 12 weeks.

KARACHI: Shahzaib Hasan, Ali Jawwad, Shoaib Shakeel, Ainan Arif, Ammar Hussain, Abdullah Khan, Hafiz Asad Baig, Jahangir Shah, Anop Ravi, Mohammad Husain, Usman Bisharat, Shoaib Khan, Junaid Ilyas, Ehsan Afridi, S.M Zafar, Zohaib Shera, Rauf Nazir, Faarhad Baig, Bilal Munir, Ali Mudassir, Zakir Afridi, Mansoor Amjad, Ramiz Aziz, Unas Mahmood, Abdul Jabbar, Abdullah Shah, Junaid Naeem, Anas Mahmood, Wajidullah, Ishtiaq-ur-Rehman.

HYDERABAD: Shabih Hyder, Sharjeel Khan, Hassan Ali, Atif Hamid, Noordin, Raheel Ahmed, Waqas Ahmed, Irshad Ali, Mohammad Sharif, Sajid Ali, Mudassar Manzoor, Muzammil Hasan, Muzaffar Ali, Muzammil Hussain, Bilal Irshad, Shahbaz Khan, Abdul Sami, Mohammad Adil, Zulfiqar Ali, Mir Ali Khan, Ghulam Ishaq, Mizan Rahi, Tanveer Ali, Ameer Bukhsh.

QUETTA: Mohammad Nadir, Abbas Jaffar, Majid Hussain, Farid Baqi, Salahuddin, Mohammad Ayaz, Irfan Ismail, Mohammad Irfan, Mohammad Nasir, Sabir Ali, Izzatullah, Humayun Khan, Naik Mohammad, Dad Mohammad Syed Rahim Ullah, Musa Khan, Shah Mureed, Attaullah, Aimal Khan, Zamir Khan, Imran Khan, Asif Ali, Saeed Ahmed, Ibrahim Shah.

MULTAN: Khawar Ali, Abdur Rehman, Ali Raza, Faisal Tariq, Mohammad Irfan, Waleed Iqbal, Farhan Ahmed, Mohammad Rehan, Mohammad Zahir, Rashid Iqbal, Adeel Hanif, Mohammad Ramiz, Sajid Naseer, Ahad Razzaq, Anjum Hameed, Mohammad Jamil, Naeem Rasool, Mohammad Javed, Abid Mahmood, Mudassar Ali, Salman Ilyas, Ayaz Mahmood, Sanaullah, Afsar Zaheer.

FAISALABAD: Hamza Zaheer, Murtaza Anees, Abdul Islam, Zahoor Khan, Rashid Khan, Adnan Khan, Ali Waqas, Kamran Ali, Wasif Ahmed, Fazal Ranja, Zulqarnain, Hasan Mahmood, Rameez Mahmood, Atif Manzoor, Mohammad Saeed, Farhan Khaliq, Mohammad Ashfaq, Ali Irtaza, Mohammad Qasim, Mohammad Zubair, Abdul Rauf, Mohammad Adnan, Wasim Saleem, Samar Abbas.

SIALKOT: Abdul Sattar, Khurram Shehzad, Mohammad Qasim, Mohammad Yasin, Nasir Iqbal, Naveed Sarwar, Haris Sohail, Imran Malik, Raza Hasan, Ayaz Tasawar, Zaman Jamil, Nayyar Abbas, Bilawal Bhatti, Adil Raza, Sultan Ahmed, Mohammad Arsalan, Zahidullah, Aamer Jaffery, Bilal Hussain, Yasir Aziz, Farhan Malik, Shabnan Amjad, Kaleem Ahmed, Mohammad Abbas.

LAHORE: Umar Akmal, Babar Manzoor, Imran Shafi, Jumma Khan, Saadullah Ghouri, Zaeem Ghazanfar, Asif Khan, Rana Adnan, Hamza Mobeen, Ali Haider, Umer Waheed, Farhan Khan, Qamber Iqbal, Tanzeel Altaf, Asif Ghafoor, Naeemul Haq, Hafiz Saad Nasim, Mustafa Iqbal, Wasif Butt, Mohammad Naveed, Tahzeeb Raza, Shoaib Iqbal, Inam Javed, Fahad Karim, Muzammil Ikram Butt, Hamza Haroon Piracha, Ahmed Hasan Dar, Salman Afzal, Saad Ali, Ali Tahir.

PESHAWAR: Asif Khan, Umar Ishaq, Zar Mohammad Khan, Badar, Fahad Shah, Waqas Ahmed, Jibran Khan, Abdul Rehman, Asif Khan, Mohammad Adnan, Zainul Abidin, Wali Ullah, Rashid Ali, Gohar Ali, Mohammad Rizwan, Afaq Ahmed, Shahid Khan, Mohammad Yasin, Kamran Shah, Zia-ur-Rehman, Asif Khan, Aminullah Jan, Rahatullah, Tawab Khan.

ABBOTTABAD: Rameez Ahmad, Zeeshan Jadoon, Mubashar Naeem, Mohammad Arif, Saifullah Khan, Sulman Khan, Amir Shahzad, Fawad Malook, Fahim Nawaz, Fazal Manan, Khurshid Anwar, Hamid Khan, Hafeez Baig, Mohammad Siddique, Farhan Bashir, Haider Raza, Mohammad Umar, Saeed Khan, Zakir Afridi, Saleh Mohammad, Irfan Khan, Rehan Afridi, Farmanullah, Asif Khan.

ISLAMABAD: Junaid Nadir, Nauman Masood, Usman Mahmood, Yasir Waheed, Umair Mir, Zahid Iqbal, Mohammad Kashif, Haq Tahir, Ahsan Rizvi, Babar Nazir, Moeed Ahmed shaikh, Shoaib Khaliq, Nauman Nazir, Syed Dawood, Ahmed Dar, Awais Afzal, Nauman Munir, Umair Khalid, Osama Safdar, Mohammad Ijaz, Adil Mirza, Ghulam Murtaza, Mohammad Usman, Tauseef Hussain.

RAWALPINDI: Fawad Hussain, Jamal Anwar, Nasir Malik, Samiullah, Muzammil Nizam, Fawad Ahmed Kiani, Faisal Iqbal, Mubashir Aitbar, Mujahid Amin, Mohammad Saud, Mashood Abbasi, Mohammad Khalid, Owais Ali, Ahsan, Aqeel Ulfat, Majid Khan, Hammad Azam, Faisal Iftikhar, Usama Sharoon, Najeeb Ullah, Yawar Abbas, Rakhmat Shah, Raza Iqbal, Sadaf Hussain.