LAHORE: The Pakistan baseball team has left for Jakarta, Indonesia on Saturday to take part in the ongoing 18th Asian Games.

Pakistan will feature in Pool ‘A’ in which Asian No.1 Japan, and fifth China, Sri Lanka and Thailand are also included.

Pakistan will open there campaign against Japan on Aug 26 before facing Sri Lanka on Aug 27, China on Aug 28 and Thailand on Aug 29.

Squad: Umair Imdad Bhatti (captain), Arsalan Jamshaid, Faqir Hussain, Fazal-ur- Rehman, Ihsan Ullah, Inayat Ullah Khan, Tariq Nadeem, Mohammad Amjad Aslam, Mohammad Hussain, Mohammad Rafi, Mohammad Usman, Mohammad Waseem, Mohammad Zakir, Ubaid Ullah, Mohammad Sumair Zawar, Jawad Ali. Manager: Mohammad Mohsin Khan. Coaches: Syed Babar Ali Sherazi and Nisar Ahmad.

Published in Dawn, August 19th, 2018

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