LAHORE, Feb 12: Ninety-nine probables will attend the initial trials to select the Pakistan Under-19 team for the forthcoming tour of Australia in April.

The initials trials, to be held in three phases from Feb 17 to 25, will commence from Multan Cricket Stadium where the probables from Karachi, Hyderabad, Multan and Quetta Regions will appear on Feb 17 and 18.

In the next phase, trials will be held at Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad on Feb 19 and 20. Probables from Faisalabad, Lahore and Sialkot regions will appear.

In third phase, the trials will be held at Arbab Niazi Stadium, Peshawar on Feb 24 and 25 where probables from Abbottabad, Islamabad, Rawalpindi and Peshawar Regions will appear.

The national junior selection committee headed by Iqbal Qasim selected the probables which are:

KARACHI HARBOUR: Ali Jawad, Farhan Rafiq, Yasir Hussain, , Azhar Shah , Asad Baig ,Amjad Manzoor, Junaid Nadeem.

KARACHI URBAN: Hassan Jawad, Shan Masood, Ahmad Iqbal, Mohammad Hassan, Zaheer Abbas, Shahzaib Ahmed, Osama Basharat, Tauqeer Khalid.

LAHORE RAVI: Ali Haider, Hamza Mobin, Junaid Malik, Saadullah Ghor, Usman Salahuddin, Babar Manzoor, Naeemul Haq, Zeeshan Ali, Saad Nasim, Zain Shah Nawaz.

LAHORE SHALIMAR: Ameer Hamid, Ahmad Shahzad, Asif Ghafoor, Rana Adnan, Mustafa Iqbal, Qambar Iqbal, Azhar Attari, Mohammad Naveed, Wasif Butt.

FAISALABAD: Ali Waqas, Mohammad Laiq, Abdul Rauf, Zulqarnain.

SIALKOT: Khurram Shahzad, Mohammad Yasin, Zaman Jamil, Waqar Azmat, Nayyar Abbas, Naeem Anjum, Aamir Jaffery.

HYDERABAD: Sharjeel Khan, Zeeshan Gul, Azeem Ghuman, Mir Ali Khan, Waqar Ahmad.

QUETTA: Taimur Ali, Aimal Khan, Mohibullah, Sher Hussain.

MULTAN: Abdul Sattar, Adnan Razzaq, Adeel Zahid, Junaid Iqbal, Gulraiz Sadaf, Adeel Hanif, Rahat Ali, Asfar Zaheer, Mohammad Zaheer.

ISLAMABAD: Adeel Mirza, Nauman Masood, Zahid Iqbal, Zeeshan Mushtaq, Kamran Hussain, Umair Mir, Mohammad Kashif, Usman Ashraf, Immad Wasim, Junaid Nadir.

ABBOTTABAD: Faisal Nawaz, Syed Fawad, Zeeshan Jadoon, Saleh Muhammad, Junaid Khan,

PESHAWAR: Adil Amin, Gohar Ali, Israrullah, Khizar Hayat, Mohammad Jibran, Jibran Khan, Nasir Ahmad, Mian Khan, Rahatullah, Hidayatullah Khan,

RAWALPINDI: Asad Zahid, Fawad Hussain, Jamal Anwar, M. Ibrahim, Umer Amin, Usama Shahroon, Muhammad Rameez, Mohammad Aamer, Faisal Iqbal.

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