KARACHI, July 6: The Pakistan Cricket Board will conduct trials to select cricketers for Karachi Regional Academy as well as for selection of two Karachi teams for the PCB Inter-region Under-19 Cricket Championship on Friday at the PCB Academy Ground.

Those who have performed well for their respective zones in the recent Inter-district under-19 cricket tournament have been recommended by each zone to report at the venue at 9.00am in proper cricket dress for trials along with their two passport size coloured photographs, original birth certificate, original Matric certificate, ‘B’ Form and photocopy of father’s CNIC.

The following players have invited to attend the trials:

Zone-I: Hamzaul Hasan, Ainan Arif, Hafiz Asad, Nauman Hussain, Mannan Aftab, Siddique Umar, Amjad Manzoor, Tabish Nawab, Ramiz Aziz, Umair Shaikh and Imran Qureshi.

Zone-II: Ali Asad, Sami Arshad, Farhan Rafiq, Junaid Ilyas, Abdul Jabbar, Ahmed Iqbal, Tauseef Bhopali, Athar Hussain, Tajuddin Aga and Irfan Lodhi.

Zone-III: Behram Khan, Shan Masood, Arsalan Javed, Sumail Aziz, Akhtar Faheem, S. M. Zafar, Bilal Mohammad, Khan Sher, Osama Shah and Anas Ahmed.

Zone-IV: Salman Ahmed, Shahzaib Hasan, Jawwad Khan, Ali Jawwad, Mohammad Waqas, Shahzeb A. Khan, Ali Qasim, Imran Tariq, Masoom Ali, Yasir Munir.

Zone-V: Arsalan Hussain, Zeeshan Rahim, Rashid Nawaz, Shaharyar Zafar, Adnanur Rehman, Mohammad Waqas, Osama Basharat, Rana Adnan, Salman Khalid and Majid Khan.

Zone-VI: Zeeshan Jamil, Saad Surkhail, Hasan Javed, Mohammad Hasan, Zaheer Abbas, Azhar Shah, Fazal Subhan, Ehteshamuddin, Tauqir Khalid and Mohib Ali.

Zone-VII: Yasir Hussain, Hafiz Asad, Mohammad Asif, Razaul Hasan, Mohammad Junaid, Abdul Ameer Zakir Malik, Abbas Jafferi, Farhan Channa and Abdul Saad.—PPI

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