KARACHI: The Karachi City Cricket Association (KCCA) on Saturday announced squads of its seven zones to compete in the PCB Regional Inter-district (Karachi Region) Under-19 Cricket Championship starting on Tuesday (May 3).

Regional under-19 coaches Mohammad Masroor, who was also head coach of Pakistan team at the ICC Under-19 World Cup held in Bangladesh earlier this year, and Asim Rizvi along with regional representative Zafar Ahmed and a representative from each of the seven zones teamed up to select the squads.

In the first-round matches, Zone-I take on Zone-III at the Nazir Hussain Young Fighter Ground, Zone-II meet Zone-IV at the TMC Ground and Zone-V face Zone-VII at the Landhi Gymkhana Ground.

The first innings of the two-day fixtures is restricted to 70 overs per side.

Squads:

ZONE-I: S.M. Sher, Ahmed Farooq, Sohail Khan, Mohammad Wasim, Sufyan Yousuf, Mohammad Ali, Syed Amin, Haider Ali, Mohammad Ali, Babar Khan, Usama Butt, Wali Khan, Syed Zaid Imam, M. Zubair, Umar Yousuf, Saad Ghori, M. Jalib and Shiraz Malik.

ZONE-II: Munir Rehman, Rehmatullah, Ammad Alam, Obaisullah Khan, Sohail Shabbir, Tariq Bakht, Mohammad Umar, M. Ali Butt, Hyder Abbas, Umar Farooq, Mohammad Ahsan, Ali Shah, Hassan Nawab, Sufyan Khan M. Shiraz Ali, Kahaf Patel, Abeer Aqeel, Mohammad Javed, Asadullah Ghalib, Wajahat Kamal.

ZONE-III: Usama Ali, M. Azam Khan, Imran Shah, Ram Ravi, Owais Butt, Asad-ul-Haq, Ameer Raza Khan, Afnan Kareem, Ameer Hamza, M. Saad Rehan, Hafiz Taha Khan, M. Danish Ahmed, Waqas Khan, Abrar Khan, Israr Ahmed Awan, Mohammad Usman, Anas Hameed Qazi, Nihal Rasheed, Mohammad Ali Khan.

ZONE-IV: Ali Sohaib, Ameer Sultan, Asadullah Hamza, Daniyal Naveed, Hamza Qadir, Mohammad Daniyal, M. Imran Raza Lodhi, Mohammad Faisal, Mohammad Kashan Khan, Mohammad Sohail, M. Yamin Naeem, Mohammad Zaryab Khan, Raja Amanullah, Shayan Nusrat, Shoaib bin Tariq, Syed Abdullah Rafai, Syed Arsalan Anwer, Syed Faiq-ur Rehman, Syed Maaz Ali, Taha Qutiba.

ZONE-V: Tauseeq Ahmed, Ali Raja, Eman Ali Khan, Mohammad Ashar Qureshi, Tahir Marwat, Salman Khan, Farhad Ali Israr, Syed Mohammad Ayub Jaffri, Mohammad Talal Naeem, Syed Tala Shah, Muhammad Zahid, Ammar Ilyas, Wazibullah, Mohammad Ibrahim, Ahsan Tareen, Mohammad Fazeel, Nabeel Wahid Khan, Abu Baqar Shabbir Ahmed, M. Hassam Ali Khan.

ZONE-VI: Ahsan Laeeq, S.M. Tahami, M. Umar Farooq, Rehman Khan, Ali Umar, M. Faizan Khan, Rafiullah, Mohammad Ahmed, Anas Ilyas, Baloch Ali, Mohammad Imran, Ali Khurram, Mohammad Hasan Khan, Hammad Mughal, Mir Salman, Ali Aman, Hasan Mohsin, Mohammad Hassaan Khan, Mohammad Kashan.

ZONE-VII: Hafiz Maaz Ashar, Rohaib Ahmed Khan, M. Nabeel, M. Aqeel Shah, Sabih Siddiqui, Syed Subhan Shah, Jalaluddin, Ammar Khan, Shahid Nisar, Azizuddin, Ikram-ul-Haq, Danial Matloob, Adil Ijaz, Saif-ur-Rehman, Ameer Nawab, Saad-ur-Rehman, Umar Farooq, M. Usama Tariq, Syed Mohammad Baqar, Manzoor Elahi, Talib Hussain.

Published in Dawn, May 1st, 2016