KARACHI: An exhibition cricket match will be played between DHA Sports Club (Moin Khan Academy) and renowned showbiz personalities to pay homage to late Junaid Jamshed and late Amjad Sabri Qawal on June 8, the organisers announced here on Wednesday.

The two teams will be named as Junaid Jamshed Members XI and Amjad Sabri Stars XI and will comprise renowned cricketers and showbiz celebrities.

Simultaneously, the DHA Sports Club (Moin Khan Academy) will also organise the grand 6th Corporate T-20 Ramadan Cup which has become a popular cricket venture during the last six years.

The schedule and sponsors of the tournament will be formally announced at a press conference on June 2 by the academy chief and former Pakistan captain Moin Khan.

Teams (from):

JUNAID JAMSHED MEMBERS XI: Tehseen Javed (captain), Wasim Akram, Rashid Latif, Shahid Afridi, Fahad Mustafa, Humayun Saeed, Najam Shiraz, Bilal Maqsood, Yasir Nawaz, Mukhtar Saeed, Fakhre Alam, Ali Salman.

AMJAD SABRI STARS XI: Adnan Siddiqui (captain) Danish Taimur, Faheem Abbas, Kamran Jilani, Faisal Qureshi, Aijaz Aslam, Noman Habib, Faisal Jameel, Mohsin Talat, Yasir Mazhar, Salman Saeed, Tahir Kazmi, Bilal Ashraf, Abbas Jafri, Nawab Alam, Sajid Hasan, Asim Zafar, Shabbir Jan.

Published in Dawn, May 25th, 2017

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