LAHORE: The first phase of the national rugby camp begins at F-10 rugby ground in Islamabad on Saturday.

Probables will be trained at the camp under a professional coach. The camp is being organised to pick the national squad for a four-nation tournament being held in Kazakhstan in May this year. Mongolia and Uzbekistan are the two other teams besides Pakistan and hosts Kazakhstan.

After the selection of Pakistan team the camp will continue till May 13 before the national squad departs for Kazakhstan.

Probables:

Ahmed Waseem, Kamal Ahmed, Ghalib Javed, Saim, Mohammad Talha, Mohammad Waqas, Mohammad Faisal, Mohammad Arif (Lahore); Khurram Ahmed, Mohammad Shoaib (Fort Abbas);Mohammad Imran (Haroonabad); Abbas Ahmed (Vehari); Shahbaz Ahmed (Lodhran); Mohammad Rizwan, Mohammad Ghous (Fata); Nasir Mehmood, Mohammad Shahid, Irfan Shahzad, Sharafat Ali, Asad Butt, Waqar Younis, Mohammad Shahbaz, Mohammad Imran, Mohammad Waqas, Mohammad Haroon, Musaddaq Altaf, Zahid Iqbal, Israr Ahmad, Anjum Shahzad (Army); Kashif Khawaja, Dawood Shah, Moeez Shah, Romail Qureshi, Hammad Safdar, Ammar Shakri, Ali Khan, Hamza Hayauddin, Bilal Khan (Islamabad); Ali Shahid, Dawood Gul, Shoaib Akbar, Mohammad Sufyan, Mohammad Imran, Adnan Saeed, Saad Arif (Wapda).

Published in Dawn, February 23rd, 2018