LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board on Monday named 60 U-19 men’s cricketers for a Skills Assessment camp starting at the Inzamam-ul-Haq High Performance Centre in Multan on Wednesday.

Thirty cricketers will participate in each of the first and second phases. The players in the first phase will undergo match-based skill assessment from June 18 to 23 while the second phase will run from June 25 to 30.

Additionally, 10 players who have previously represented Pakistan U-19s and are eligible to feature in the 2026 ICC U-19 World Cup will be called up in the third phase of the camp.

The players born on or after Sept 1, 2006 are eligible to feature in the U-19 World Cup.

First phase players: Abbas Khan (Lahore), Abdul Ahad (Multan), Abdul Rasool Tariq (Lahore), Abdul Wahab (Abbottabad), Abdul Wassay (Bahawalpur), Alyan Salman (Lahore), Atiq-ur-Rehman (Peshawar), Ghulam Haider (Sialkot), Ghulam Mustafa (Bahawalpur), Haroon Khan (Peshawar), Hassan Ahmad (Peshawar), Hazrat Ali (Lahore), Ibtisam Azhar (Lahore), Jawad Khan (Peshawar), Moiz (Lahore), Mudassir (FATA), Mohammad Arshad (Rawalpindi), Mohammad Makki (Bahawalpur), Mohammad Saim (Faisalabad), Mohammad Salman (Abbottabad), Mohammad Zeeshan (Sialkot), Naseem Akhtar (Multan), Rana Adeel Mushtaq (Multan), Riyan Jibran (Bahawalpur), Sameer Minhas (Multan), Shah Afzal (Peshawar), Sufyan Amin (Multan), Talal Ahmad (Multan), Uzair Ali (Peshawar), Waleed Iqbal (Bahawalpur)

Second phase players: Ahmed Raza (AJK), Abdul Wahab (Hyderabad), Ali Hassan Baloch (Lahore), Asad Umar (Karachi), Faisal Rehman (Larkana), Fazal Ur Rehman (Quetta), Hasnain Abbas Dar (Lahore), Huzaifa Ahsan (Karachi), Ishrat-ul-Ibad (DM Jamali), Jiyad (Fata), Mohammad Haris (Hyderabad), Mohammad Abbas (Fata), Mohammad Abbas Afridi (Fata), Mohammad Ismail (Fata), Muhammad Nameer (Hyderabad), Mohammad Shahzaib Naqeeb (Fata), Muhammad Shayan (Peshawar), Mohammad Siraj (Fata), Muzamil Khan (Fata), Najeeb Ur Rehman (Quetta), Naveed khan (Fata), Niqab (Islamabad), Obaid Khan (Quetta), Rizwanullah (Karachi), Saad Sakhawat (Islamabad), Sahil Nisar (Islamabad), Sheeraz Ahmed (Quetta), Taimur Ali (Fata), Waleed Iqbal (Bahawalpur), Yahya Shah (Hyderabad)

10 players (having represented Pakistan U-19s) in third phase: Abdul Subhan, Ahmed Hussain, Farhan Yousuf, Hassan Khan, Mohammad Huzaifa, Mohammad Tahir, Momin Qamar, Tayyab Arif, Umar Zaib, Usman Khan.

Published in Dawn, June 17th, 2025

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