KARACHI, May 3: The Karachi City Cricket Association (KCCA) Zone II on Thursday named their squad for the KCCA U-19 Inter Zonal cricket tournament starting at the National Stadium here on Sunday.

The Zone II selection committee comprising Zafar Ahmed, Tahir Mahmood and Iqbal selected the team after holding trials earlier this week. The skipper of the side will be named later.

All the selected players have been directed to report Jamil Ahmed, secretary Zone II at 4pm on Friday at the TMC ground.

Squad: Tauseef Bhopali, Ahmed Iqbal, Irfan Lodhi, Junaid Bari, Abdul Jabbar, Athar Hussain, Zohaib, Ahmed Hussain, Saeed, Arsalan Khan, Fareed Khan, Abdullah, Naeemullah, Latif Junejo, Bilal Mughal, Faizan Shafiq, Farhan Rafiq, Yasir Tanvir, Arsalan Aslam, Azhar Shah, Zeeshan Khan, Fahad, Mansoor Ali, Zeeshan Nasir, Salman Pasha, Raheel Manzoor, Usman Aamir, Zakir Ali, Mirza Ahsan, Hammad Hussain, Rizwan, Saqib Khan, Sheraz Ali, Asmat Haider.

On Wednesday, Ali Jawad, Rashid Hussain and Khalil-ur-Rehman respectively were named captains of the KCCA Zone IV Whites, Blues and Greens for the upcoming KCCA Inter Zonal U-19 championship.

Squads:

WHITES: Ali Jawad (captain), Ali Qasim, Yasir Munir, Shoaib Shakeel, Asif Abbas, Talha Azeem, Shahzaib Khan, Masoom Ali, Rauf Nazir, Salman Ahmed, Ishtiaq, Arsalan Salim, Wajid Iqbal, Shoaib Hasan, Munib-ur-Rehman, Najam Siraj, Shahzain Hasan.

BLUES: Rashid Hussain (captain), Waheed-uz-Zaman, Azhar Ali, M Usman, Shafqat Ali, Wasim Farid, Javed Zaman, Aif Sharif, Arsalan Khan, Afzal Khan, Moid-ul-Haq, Umair Ahmed, Abdullah Asim, Bilal Aamir, Israr-ul-Haq, Mohammad Haris, Naved Arshad, Wasim Razzaq, Irfan, Affan Ahmed, Wajihuddin.

GREENS: Khalil-ur-Rehman (captain), Ashraf Ali, Asadullah, Mahmood Tariq, Adeel Hussain, Danish Jamil, Faizan Ahmed, Jazeb Nazar, Abid Majeed, Ehsan Chaudhry, Aon Mohammad, Wajahat Muttaqi, Wajahat Ali, Zohaib Malik, Adnan Majeed, Hassan Ali, Asad Ali, Ali Hassan, Mohammad Zohair, Aamir Ali. —Agencies

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