KARACHI: The Sindh Boxing Association (SBA) has announced a 34-member squad including seven women for the four-day Sindh-Balochistan boxing series which gets into action at Kakri Ground on Friday.

The squad include twenty men, seven juniors and as many women boxers. Besides that, the organisers also named six coaches,three members of the jury and a coordinator.

Meanwhile, the Balochistan contingent arrived here by road from Quetta on Thursday. The president of the Balochistan Boxing Association Haji Mohammad Sadiq Achakzai and secretary Syed Agha Mohammad Hafeez have also arrived with the team.

On arrival, they were received by the secretary of the SBA Asghar Baloch and senior official Abid Brohi.

Sindh teams:

Men: Shehroz Kachi, Bilal (light flyweight), Badshah Khan, Ahmed Afridi (flyweight), Mohammad Naseeb, Noman (bantamweight), Aqib Ali, Jalil Ahmed (lightweight), Hamdan Hussain, Ehsanullah (light welterweight), Umer Khan, Zubair Khan (welterweight), Salahuddin, Ehsan Khan (middleweight), Saddam Hussain, Khalil Haider (light heavyweight), Tahir Ayub, Abdul Khalid (heavyweight) , Yasir Jamil, Faizullah (super heavyweight).

Juniors: Khalid Raza (40kg), Faizan Raza (42kg), Tabish (44kg), Shahbaz Jan (46kg), Hamdan (48kg), Sajid Rasheed (50kg) and Jameel Kachi (52kg).

Women: Guljabeen (light flyweight), Maria (flyweight), Mehreen (Bantamweight), Husan Bano (lightweight), Shazia (light welterweight), Sara (welterweight) and Mariam (middleweight).

Officials: Abdul Sattar, Khawar Din, Abdul Khaliq, Mohammad Amin, Mohammad Moosa Qambrani and Raheem Jan (coaches), Abdul Razzak Baloch (coordinator).

Jury: Malang Baloch, Siddiq Qambrani and Habibullah Jafri.

Published in Dawn, May 4th, 2018

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