LAHORE: The PCB U-16 National One-day Tournament of the 2020-21 season will be staged in Rawalpindi from Feb 13 to 23.

The squads will assemble in Rawalpindi on Feb 6 and following their training and practice sessions from Feb 7 to 12 at the Ayub Park Cricket Ground, they will go head to head in a single-league 45-overs-a-side tournament from Feb 13.

The top two sides will feature in the final at the Pindi Cricket Stadium on Feb 23 with the winning side receiving Rs350,000 and the runners-up Rs250,000.

Though junior chief selector Saleem Jaffar has finalised 20-member squads for the six-team event, which include five reserves, the PCB has only invited 16 due to Covid-19 restrictions.

According to the PCB, as per its Covid-19 protocols, all players will require negative tests in their hometowns and will then need another negative result after checking-in in a hotel before being allowed to train, practise and integrate with fellow cricketers.

“Player born on or after Sept 1, 2004 are eligible to participate in the 16-match tournament. The squads have been finalised following open trials held at 18 different venues of the country, details of which were announced on Nov 12 via a media release,” the PCB stated.

Squads:

BALOCHISTAN: Abdul Saboor (Pishin), Adil Ahmed Khan (Quetta), Aimal Khan Davi (Quetta),Anwar Shah (Naushki), Duniya Khan (Loralai), Ehsan Ullah (Loralai), Ikramullah (Quetta), Inamullah (Quetta), Mohammad Junaid (Khuzdar), Mohammad Qasim (Quetta), Mohsin Ali (Lasbela), Noorul Bashar (Zhob), Sajjad Khan (Loralai), Shahid Ali (Jaffarabad), Uzaifa Gul (Quetta), Zulqarnain (Naushki)

CENTRAL PUNJAB: Abdul Rehman (Faisalabad), Altamash Abbas (Lahore), Arsalan Riaz (Faisalabad), Awais Ali (Sialkot), Azan Awais (Sialkot), Hamza Nawaz (Lahore), Hassan Ali (Lahore), Ibtisam Rehman (Faisalabad), Mohammad Shoban (Sialkot), Momin Qamar (Faisalabad), Moosa Azeem (Sialkot), Obaid Shahid (Lahore), Rafay Rana (Lahore), Raja Balaj (Lahore), Shuban Saeed (Faisalabad) and Ubaidullah (Lahore)

KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA: Adnan Khan (Khyber), Ahmad Hussain (Peshawar), Ch Shuja (Abbottabad), Khubaib Khalil (Peshawar), Mohammad Ayyaz (Mardan), Mohammad Irfan (Peshawar), Mohammad Jalal (Swabi), Mohammad Latif (Khyber), Mohammad Salman (Khyber), Mohammad Tahir (Peshawar), Mohammad Zubair (Peshawar), Razaullah (Swabi), Riazullah (Upper Dir), Salman Khan (Swat), Shahzeb Khan (Mansehra), Uzair Shah (Peshawar)

NORTHERN: Aamir Hassan (Rawalpindi), Arsalan Ali (Islamabad), Asadullah (Islamabad), Atif Zafar (Rawalpindi), Azan Kabir (Kotli), Hammad Raffique (Chakwal), Ibrahim Sultan (Jhelum), Iftikhar Ahmed (Muzaffarabad), Ihsanullah (Attock), Irshad Ahmed (Rawalpindi), Mohammad Arshad (Rawalpindi), Raja Hamza Waheed (Islamabad), Saad Masood (Rawalpindi), Sheraz Khan (Rawalpindi), Shumyil Hussan (Islamabad), Yazdan Abbas Rizvi (Rawalpindi)

SINDH: Abdul Rehman (Karachi), Arbaz Khan (Karachi), Dawood Abbas (Nawabshah), Hassan Iqbal (Karachi), Mohammad Rizwan (Karachi), Mohammad Shayaan Saad (Karachi), Nasaruddin (Karachi), Noman Ali (Hyderabad), Romail Khan (Karachi), Saad Asif (Karachi), Saad Baig (Karachi), Umar Ijaz (Karachi), Wahaj Raiz (Karachi), Zaid Ahmed (Karachi), Zain-ul-Abdin (Jamshoro), Zayan Khan (Karachi)

SOUTHERN PUNJAB: Abubakar Azeem (Okara), Adnan Shahid (Dera Ghazi Khan), Alamgir Khan (Multan), Alamzaib Khan (Multan), Ali Shabir (Rahim Yar Khan), Arafat Ahmed (Multan), Fahad Kashif (Multan), Haseeb Gul (Lodhran), Mohammad Danish (Muzaffargarh), Mohammad Hamid (Bahwalpur), Mohammad Shan (Dera Ghazi Khan), Moheer Saeed (Vehari), Mustaqeem Faisal (Bahawalpur), Rana Adeel (Multan), Sameer Minhas (Multan), Sarfraz Riyast (Pakpattan)

Event schedule:

Feb 13: Balochistan vs Sindh, Pindi Cricket Stadium; Central Punjab vs Southern Punjab, Ayub Park Cricket Ground; Northern vs Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Rawal Cricket Ground

Feb 15: Balochistan vs Southern Punjab, Pindi Cricket Stadium; Khyber Pakhtunkhwa vs Sindh, Ayub Park Cricket Ground; Northern vs Central Punjab, Rawal Cricket Ground

Feb 17: Balochistan vs Northern, Pindi Cricket Stadium; Sindh vs Southern Punjab, Ayub Park Cricket Ground; Khyber Pakhtunkhwa vs Central Punjab, Rawal Cricket Ground

Feb 19: Balochistan vs Central Punjab, Pindi Cricket Stadium; Northern vs Sindh, Ayub Park Cricket Ground; Khyber Pakhtunkhwa vs Southern Punjab, Rawal Cricket Ground

Feb 21: Balochistan vs Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pindi Cricket Stadium; Central Punjab vs Sindh, Ayub Park Cricket Ground; Northern vs Southern Punjab, Rawal Cricket Ground

Feb 23: Final, Pindi Cricket Stadium.

Published in Dawn, February 2nd, 2021