KARACHI, July 12: Remaining five teams from Thailand, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Malaysia, Maldives and Singapore also arrived to participate in the Asian Youth Cricket Championship starting at various venues from Monday.

Ten associate members of Asian Cricket Council (ACC) are taking part in the fortnight event with finalists qualify for next year’s World Youth Cup in Bangladesh.

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is hosting the event on behalf of ACC. The event was originally to be held at Singapore but shifted to Karachi because of SARS outbreak in Far Eastern Asia.

The meeting of managers, coaches and captains with organizing committee will be held at team’s hotel on Sunday and followed by official press briefing.

Following are the teams which arrived and provided by the organizers.

SINGAPORE: Syed Zeeshan Raza Zaidi, Glenn Brendan Meyer, Christopher Janik, Utkarsh sharma, Shafeez Altaff Hussein, Denthil Dayalan, Ahmad Ariffin Azizul B.Hashim, Peter Muruthi,Maxim Mok Kar Yuen, Iftekhar Haider, Mohammad Rizwan Madakia, James Muruthi, Ranald Jospeh,Shaun Karnan Sabapathy.

Former Sri Lankan opening batsman Brendon Kurupu and Goh Swee Heng are manager and trainer of the team. Anwar Khan is the liaision officer of the team.

THAILAND: Saurabh Dhanukha, Arjun Kumar, Swapnil Kaushik, Saad Akber, Kwan Chand, Sunil Nalinvilawan, Deepak Saraff, Akshay Kumar Desai, Darshil Upendra Shah, Nishadh Thomas Rego, Chirag Chungani, Theeraphat Kanijou, Neeraj Annachhatre, Danushka Mendis Abeyasekara, Adrash Mukerjee, Doug Edwards.

Ravinder Pal Singh Ghai (manager), Mrs. Bhupind Ghai, Mohideen Abdul Kader (Coach) are the officials of the team.

UAE: Leon Glen Carlo, Ryan Chadha, Abdul Rehman, Ali Abdulla, Asim Zuberi, Mirza Farhan Siddiqui, Muhammad Umar Shah, Owais Hameed, Pranov Arora, Qasim Zuberi, Ramvir Rai, Riaz Khaliq, Shaikh Rizwan.

Former Indian Test allrounder Syed Abid Ali is the coach of the team.

MALAYSIA: Mohd Anwar bin Arudin Eszrafiq bin Aziz, Mohd Ariffin bin Ramly, Manrick Singh Varick Singh, Rosman bin Zakaria, Mohd Shukri bin Abdul Rahim, Joshua Jeyaraja Mahadevan, Suhan Kumar Alagartnam, Sathiswaran S/O Shanmugam, Mazwell Stephen Bala, Mohd Radznab Zabri, Mohd Saiful Hawari, S.Tamilarasan, S Vickneswaran.

Mr.Gary Hayes (coach) and Rasanayagam (manager) are the officials of the team with Sagheer Abbas as the Liasion Officer.

MALDIVES: Niganed Nagafiiz, Hassan Aflam, Ahmed Umar Jamaal, Ahmed Hassan Sobri, Mohamed Suhaib Mohmed Habeeb, Mohmed Habeeb, Mohmed Imran Khaleel, Husham Ibrahim, Mohmed Miras, Hussain Adnan, Ahmed Ismail, Ibrahim Rishwan, Ahmed Hassan, Hussain Izuvaan.

Abdulla Imad Ismail (coach), Ibrahim Hussain (anager) are oifficials while Saeed Azad is the Liaision Officer.—APP