KARACHI, July 4: Forty three probables will be featuring in the two-day trials to pick 20-member Pakistan Junior squad for the upcoming tour of Europe, commence at Pakistan Steel Township from Saturday.

Chief of Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) General Muhammad Aziz Khan will watch the trials with chief selector Akhtar Rasool and other members of the selection committee.

Pakistan juniors team during their tour to Europe will participate in four-nation event in Spain and eight-antion contest in Poland besides playing Test matches in France and also involve Test series with Spain and Poland.

Gen Aziz will announced the team on Sunday (July 6) after the second rounds of the trials.

Besides 20 players, eight standbys will be picked to continue their training till their departure for Spain on July 21.

Former Olympian Asif Bjawa is coach of the team.

Following 43 boys will be appearing in the trials.

Goalkeeper: M.Adeel Anwar (Railways), Shakir Munir (ABL), M.Iqbal (Punjab), M.Rizwan (Army).

Right Back: Ikhlaq Ahmed (Police), Usman Akram (Punjab), Kashif Islam (Punjab), Majid Khan (PTCL).

Left Back: M.Tariq Yameen (PTCL), Adnan Hamid (Sindh), M.Ateeq (Gojra), M.Javed (Army).

Right Half: Imran Khan (HBL), M. Abu Bakar (Railways), Wasif Khan (NBP).

Centre Half: M.Imran (Army), M.Khalid Mahmood (ABL), Bilal Saeed (Punjab), Zaheer Ahmed (Railways).

Left Half: Sajjad Anwar (PTCL), Abdul Asim Khan (NBP), Aamir Shahzad (POF), M.Khaliq (PTCL).

Right Out: Muhammad Arif (PTCL), M.Owais Khan (NBP), Syed Mudassir Abbas (Sindh), Imran Khan (Sindh), Atif Yaqoob (PTCL).

Right In: Adnan Zakir (NBP), Yasir Islam (NWFP), Khurram Butt (Gujranwala), Ishtique Ahmed (TT Singh).

Centre Forward: Mahmood Ali (Railways), Shabbir Ahmed Khan (Sindh), Akhtar Ali (PTCL), M.Arshad (Army).

Left In: Tariq Aziz (PTCL), M.Naeem Akber (NBP), Kashif Yaqoob (Punjab), M.Imran Ali (Faisalabad).

Left Out: Asif Bilal (Lahore), Syed Abbas Haider (Sindh) and Mustansar Shaikh (Punjab).—APP