Sabir named skipper

Published May 10, 2006

LAHORE, May 9: Sabir Hussain will lead the 14-member Lahore division team in the Punjab basketball championship to be held in Sialkot from Wednesday. Besides Lahore, the teams from Rawalpindi, Sargodha, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Multan, D.G Khan and Bahawalpur are taking part.

Team: Sabir Hussain (captain), Shahbaz Ahmad, Raja, Anil Hamid, Yasir, Shumyl, Anil Victor, Umar Hayat, Qasim Dawood, Irfan Mahmood, Ashfaq Ahmad, Usman. Coach: Zaheer Ahmed. Manager: Malik Mutahir Hussain.

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