April 25, 2008	Friday	Rabi-us-Sani 18, 1429

KARACHI, April 24: Trials to select Karachi Regional academy team, a 15-week training and coaching programme, will be held at the National Stadium from Saturday (April 26) at 9am, the KCCA said on Thursday.

The PCB has decided to launch the regional under-19 academies that will function from May 19 to Aug 30 in all regions.

ZONE I: Rameez Aziz, Waqar Khan, Umar Imtiaz, Mannan Aftab, Majid Rizvi, Wasim Tahir, Majid Ahmed, Qamar Iqbal, S. Farooq, Zeeshan Nasir and Bilal Mahmood.

ZONE II: Irfan Lodhi, Latif Junejo, Jabbar Khan, Saeed Mutabir, Ammar Hasan, Sheraz Ali, Zohaib Shera, Zakir Ali, Basit Ahsan and Hasan Qasim.

ZONE III: Akhtar Fahim, Jahangir Shah, Anop Ravi, Tanvir-ul-Haq, Osama Shah, Arsalan Khan, Tauseef Khan, Husban Javed, Maroof Aziz and Shoaib Rajput.

ZONE IV: Ishtiaq-ur-Rehman, Mohammad Usman, Shahzaib Hasan, Yasir Munir, Sohaib Shakeel, Sheraz Ahmed, Arsalan Salim, Rashid Hussain, Asif Abbas and Munib-ur-Rehman.

ZONE V: Mujahid Hussain, Mohammad Waqas, Shahzad Akhtar, Usama Basharat, Wajidullah, Mohammad Zohaib, Mohammad Athar, Sajjad Ali, Noman Iqbal, and Inayatullah.

ZONE VI: Abdullah Shah, Fakhar Zaman, Talha Shabbir, Talha Khan, Zakir Afridi, Noor Butt, Abdul Ameer, Junaid Ilyas, Faraz Ahmed, Mohammad Hasan and Talha Shafi.

ZONE VII: Azhar Shah, Hamid Shahid, Hasan Sajjad, Farooq Khan, Farhan Channa, Faisal Khan, Farhad Baig, Khalid Mahmood, Mubarak Zaib, Ali Adresh (Mirza Ahsan Jamil, Faizan Khan, Ahsan Ali and Hasan Azad who are in West Indies with Pakistan’s U-15 team will be considered on their return from the tour).

Following players have also been recommended to attend the trials by the zones: Naeemullah, Ali Ahmed, Bilal Mughal, Waqas Mahboob, Bilal Mohiuddin, Arsalan Khan, Kazim Ali, Ahmer Sohail, Irfanuzzaman, Arqam Shoaib, Nabeel Hashmi, Faraz Ali, Shahzaib Ali, Anas Mahmood, Mohammad Asad and Fahad Khan.—Agencies