KARACHI: A record number of 96 teams will be seen in action when the Inter-district Under-19 Cricket Championships start from Wednesday (April 22) in 16 different regions of the country.

According to the draws released by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), the two-day round matches of each region will be played simultaneously.

The team finishing on top at the end of the league-round fixtures will be declared champions of their region, except in Fata where 10 teams are divided two pools of five with the group winners competing in the final.

The regions competing are Karachi, Lahore, Hyderabad, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Multan, Quetta, Larkana, Islamabad, Peshawar, Bahawalpur, Sialkot, Abbottabad, Fata, Dera Murad Jamali and Azad Jammu Kashmir.

Following are the number of competing teams in each region:

KARACHI (7): Zone-I, Zone-II, Zone-III, Zone-IV, Zone-IV, Zone-V, Zone-VI, Zone-VII.

LAHORE (6): East Zone Whites, East Zone Blues, West Zone Whites, West Zone Blues, North Zone Whites, North Zone Blues.

HYDERABAD (6): Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas, Sanghar, Badin, Thatta, Shaheed Benazirabad.

FAISALABAD (5): Faisalabad, Sargodha, Bhakkar, Kasur, Jhang.

RAWALPINDI (5): Rawalpindi, Jhelum, Attock, Chakwal, Mianwali.

MULTAN (7): Multan, Sahiwal, Okara, Khanewal, Dera Ghazi Khan, Vehari, Lodhran.

QUETTA (6): Quetta, Pishin, Killa Abdullah, Nushki, Kalat, Turbat.

LARKANA (6): Larkana, Sukkur, Khairpur, Dadu, Shikarpur, Jacobabad.

ISLAMABAD (5): East Zone, Central Zone, West Zone, North Zone, Gilgit-Baltistan.

PESHAWAR (5): Peshawar, Nowshera, Charsadda, Swat, Dir Lower.

BAHAWALPUR (6): Bahawalpur, Bahawalnagar, Rahim Yar Khan, Layyah, Rajanpur, Muzaffargarh.

SIALKOT (7): Sialkot, Sheikhupura, Gujranwala, Hafizabad, Gujrat, Narowal, Mandi Bahahuddin.

ABBOTTABAD (7): Abbottabad, Haripur, Mansehra, Mardan, Swabi, Dir Upper, Buner.

FATA (10): Dera Ismail Khan, Tank, Bannu, South Waziristan, North Waziristan; Kohat, Khyber Agency, Mohmand Agency, Kurram Agency, Bajaur Agency.

DERA MURAD JAMALI (3): Naseerabad, Sibi, Loralai.

AZAD JAMMU KASHMIR (5): Muzaffarabad, Mirpur, Kotli, Poonch, Bagh.

Published in Dawn, April 20th, 2015

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