LAHORE: The Oman U-18 hockey team arrived here on Thursday to play four matches against Pakistan at the Nati­onal Hockey Stadium. The first match is scheduled to be played on Friday.

Both the teams are preparing themselves for the Asia Cup to be held in Dhaka, Bangladesh from Sept 24.

Meanwhile, the Pakistan Hockey Federation has also announced the U-18 team for the series against Oman.

Half-back Junaid Manzoor is named as captain while Moin Shakeel is named his deputy. The second and fourth matches will be played under the floodlights while first and third matches will be held in day time.

The second, third and fourth matches will be held on Sept 17, 19 and 20 with the matches to be played under floodlights will start at 8pm while the day-time matches are scheduled to start at 4.30pm.

Oman squad:

Zuhair Azher Al-Rashdi, Ibrahim Nasser AL-Hasni, Asama Khamis AL-Shibli, Sultan Ali Al Shibli, Adnan Khalil Al Hasani, Amir Ahmed Al Mashari, Abdullah Awadh Bait Faraj Allia, Faisal Saif Al Hadhrami, Marwan Khamis Al Hammadi, Taha Hussain Al Balushi, Abdul Hamid Abdallah Al Noufali, Mohammad Sulaiman Al Noufali, Hamed Abdullah Al Hasani, Aseel Amin, Bait Taysir, Fahad Hassan Al Lawati, Akram Ashoor Bait Shamaiaa, Rashid Salim Al Fazari, Mohammad Salim Al Adham.

Officials:

Mohammed Abdullah Al-Batrani (team manager), Yousufi Darwish Al Siyabi (head coach), Younus Darwish Al Siyabi (assistant coach), Shakir Munir (goalkeeping coach), Asim Dawood Siddiq (assistant goalkeeping coach), assistant manager: Raed Abdul Sharif Bait Marjan.

Pakistan squad:

Goalkeepers: Waqar Younis, Adeel Rao.

Full-backs: Amjad Ali, Rizwan Ali, Waqas Ahmad.

Half-backs: Junaid Rasool, Moin Shakeel (vice-captain), Adil Lateef, Junaid Manzoor (captain).

Forwards: Awais Arshad, Khairullah, Shahzaib Khan, Ahmad Nadeem, Ali Aziz, Afraz, Waqar Ali, Naveed Alam and Abdullah Babar.

Standbys: Awais Rasheed, Farhan Younis, Mohibullah, Roman Khan, Syed Zain Ejaz, Arsalan Haider, Murtaza Yaqoob, Amjad Rehman and Zulqarnain.

Team officials: Kamran Ashraf (manager and head coach), Mudassar Ali Khan (coach).

Published in Dawn, September 16th, 2016