KARACHI, March 16: Khalid Latif and Shadab Kabir will lead the two Karachi teams in the National One-day Cricket Championship, which starts from Thursday.

Khalid, skipper of the Pakistan Under-19 World Cup-winning side in 2004, will captain Karachi Whites, while former Test opener Shadab has been named to skipper Karachi Blues.

Karachi Whites, who are placed with Lahore Ravi, Faisalabad, National Bank and Pakistan Customs, meet Lahore Ravi in the first match of Group ‘C’ at Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore on Thursday.

On the same day, Karachi Blues, who are Group ‘D’ alongside PIA, Rawalpindi, SSGC, Abbottabad and ZTBL, take on PIA here at the National Stadium.

The Karachi City Cricket Association on Sunday asked the following members of the Karachi Whites squad along with standbys to report to coach Jalaluddin for nets at the Customs Academy Ground at 3:00pm on Monday:

Khalid Latif (captain), Asim Kamal, Asad Shafiq, Daniyal Ahsan, Afsar Nawaz, Shahzeb Hassan, Rameez Raja, Wasim Naeem, Javed Mansoor, Tanvir Ahmed, Fahad Khan, Babar Rehman, Mohammad Hasnain, Tabish Nawab, Ahmed Iqbal, Shan Masood, Faraz Ahmed Khan (Zone I), Wajihuddin, Adnan Kaleem, Murad Khan

Standbys: Misbah Khan, Atif Ali Zaidi, Mohammad Bilal, Tariq Rasheed, Jahangir Shah.

Officials: Jalaluddin (coach) and Shafiq Kazmi (manager).

Meanwhile, the following members of Karachi Blues squad have also been advised to report to coach Sagheer Abbas for nets at the Customs Academy Ground at 10:00am:

Shadab Kabir (captain), Ali Asad, Tariq Haroon, Javed Qadeer, Behram Khan, Shaharyar Ghani, Faraz Patel, Akbar Rehman, Sharjeel Ashraf, Azam Hussain, Faraz Ahmed Khan (Zone II), Rizwan Saeed, Abdul Ameer, Malik Aftab, Naveed Khan, Fazal Subhan, Shahzeb Khan, Zaheer Abbas, Tabish Khan.

Standbys: Osama Basharat, Asad Baig, Mohammad Ali, Mohammad Waqas, Maroof Aziz.

Officials: Sagheer Abbas (coach) and R.H. Rabbani (manager).

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