KARACHI, May 29: Batsmen Nasir Aziz and Khurram Ibrahim were included in Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Karachi Regional Academy Thursday.

Member of the national selection committee Shoaib Muhammad conducted a fresh trials a couple of days ago and out of the left out boys of the first trial two more youngsters were picked up.

PCB was forced to conduct trials after two of their main batsman Atif Ali Zaidi and Mubashir Ahmed were found over-age after verification of the documents, thus were axed from the academy training.

Another youngster Bilal Qureshi from Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) has joined the academy on self financing as he paid US$ 2000 to attend six week academy training and coaching programme.—APP

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