LAHORE: A total of nine departments and seven provincial teams will feature in the 35th edition of Under-21 National Hockey Cham­pionship, which begins at the National Hockey Sta­dium here on Wednesday.

Four matches will be played on the opening day.

The quarter-finals will be played on March 8, the semi-finals on March 10 and 11, while the final is scheduled to be staged on March 12.

The participating teams have been divided into the following groups:

Pool ‘A’: National Bank of Pakistan (NBP), Pakistan Police, Pakistan Boards, Punjab Whites.

Pool-‘B’: Balochistan, Rail­ways, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Colours, Wapda.

Pool ‘C’: Sui Southern Gas Company, Pakistan Army, Sindh, Islamabad.

Pool ‘D’: Punjab Colours, Pakistan Customs, Pakistan Ordnance Factory, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Whites.

Wednesday’s fixtures:

Punjab Colours vs Pakistan Ordnance Factory; Sui Southern Gas Company vs Sindh; NBP vs Pakistan Boards; Wapda vs Railways.

Published in Dawn, March 2nd, 2016

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