KARACHI, June 19: The Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) women’s wing has released the names of twenty five U-17 girls for a coaching camp, to be held at the Lahore Country Club, Muridke from June 22 to July 12.

The camp, according to the national women’s cricket team coach Umer Rashid, “is the second one of its kind, the first being the one held in Karachi last year to groom fresh talent.

The girls will form the second string, a kind of backup for the national team,” he added.

The girls, selected from all over the country, comprise players from Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad, Multan, Peshwar, Abbottabad and Islamabad. Their names along with their regions are as follows:

Rabia Shah, Ayesha Zafar (Karachi); Faryal Awan, Farzana Shafee, Komal Feroze, Sidra Bhatti, Sidra Ameen, Nimra Imran, Bakhtawar Iqbal (Lahore); Iram Shehzadi, Humaira Naseer, Sadia Iqbal, Sajida Perveen (Faisalabad); Sana Gulzar, Asifa Batool, Azka Safdar, Areeb Shumain (Multan); Wajida Sundas, Shakila Naz, Sumaiya Akbar (Peshawar); Badarunnisa, Fatima Ali, Shameen Bano (Islamabad); Nyla Qureshi, Faiza Waheed (Abbottabad).

Ms Nazia Nazeer is the camp manager with Umer Rashid as the coach, Mohammad Tariq Siddiqui, the trainer, and Ms Huma Imtiaz, the physiotherapist.