KARACHI, May 24: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Friday named 30 Under-19 players to attend the Karachi Regional Under-19 academy which will start functioning from Monday at the National Stadium.

Those who had cleared wrist tests have been inducted in the Karachi academy, the PCB said in a statement here.

The following players have been advised to report head coach former Test cricketer Jalaluddin on Sunday at 7:00pm at the PCB Academy Hostel where the cricketers will be lodged.

Zohaib Shera, Hasban Javed, Khalid Mahmood, Maroof Aziz, Nabeel Hashmi, Kazim Ali, Mohammad Hassan, Anop Ravi, Irfan Lodhi, Ishtiaq-ur-Rehman, Zakir Afridi, Latif Junejo, Mirza Ahsan Jamil, Osama Basharat, Majid Rizvi, Shahzaib Khan, Junaid Ilyas, Jahangir Shah, Waqas Khan, Umar Imtiaz, Jabbar Khan, Azhar Shah, Rameez Aziz, Talha Shabbir, Saeed Mutabbir, Mohammad Waqas, Hassan Sajjad, Ammar Hassan, Shahzaib Hussain and Mujahid Hussain.

Standby players:

Yasir Munir, Talha Shafi, Osama Shah, Wajid Iqbal, Irfan-uz-Zaman, Akhtar Fahim, Ahsan Ali, Arsalan Saleem, Sheraz Ali, Hamid Shahid, Mannan Aftab, Abdullah Shah, Faraz Ahmed, Qamar Iqbal, Talha Khan and Fakhar Zaman.—APP

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