LAHORE, Aug 8: The Pakistan Cricket Board has announced an initial squad of 30 players for the ICC Champions Trophy which will be held in India during Oct-Nov this year.

Probables: Inzamam-ul-Haq, Younis Khan, Mohammad Yousuf, Abdul Razzaq, Shoaib Akhtar, Shahid Afridi, Mohammad Sami, Shoaib Malik, Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, Kamran Akmal, Salman Butt, Danish Kaneria, Imran Farhat, Taufiq Umar, Yasir Hameed, Mohammad Asif, Umar Gul, Faisal Iqbal, Rao Iftikhar, Asim Kamal, Bazid Khan, Zulqarnain Haider, Mohammad Hafeez, Shahid Yousuf, Abdur Rehman, Tahir Khan, Mohammad Irshad, Mansoor Amjad, Samiullah Niazi and Akhtar Ayub.

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