Taufiq to lead in practice tie

Published October 10, 2007

LAHORE, Oct 9: Discarded Test opener Taufiq Umar was named on Tuesday to lead the 14-member PCB XI squad that will play a warm-up one-day match against South Africa at Bagh-i-Jinnah on Oct 16, before the five-match one-day series against Pakistan.

Aaqib Javed has been appointed as the squad’s coach.

Squad: Taufiq Umar (captain), Babar Naeem, Shahid Yousuf, Bazid Khan, Naved Latif, Ahmed Shahzad, Adnan Raza, Mansoor Amjad, Zulqarnain Haider, Abdur Rauf, Rao Iftikhar, Mohammad Irshad, Umar Amin, Hafiz Saad.—Sports Reporter

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