Four senior players to miss national hockey camp

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The camp has been arranged to pick the national side for two international tournaments. —AP
The camp has been arranged to pick the national side for two international tournaments. —AP/File photo

LAHORE Four seniors players Sohail Abbas, Waseem Ahmad, Rehan Butt and Salman Akbar will not take part in the important training camp of Pakistan which is to start at the National Hockey Stadium from today to select the national team for the two back-to-back international assignments.

The selected team is to take part in the Azlan Shah Cup to be held in Malaysia from April 3 to 12 and Asia Cup scheduled for May 8 to 15.

A PHF spokesman said that as the federation had already invited 40 probables for the camp, only 36 were reported and senior players like Sohail, Waseem, Rehan and Salman will not take part, owing to their participation in foreign league.

The PHF has made it compulsory for all probables to attend the camp for at least for three weeks.

Probables

Goalkeepers Nasir Ahmad (PIA), Sajid (Railways), Waseem (Steel Mills), Muhammad Iqbal (Navy).

Full-backs Zeeshan Ashraf (NBP), Muhammad Imran (Army), Ehsan Ullah (PIA), Muhammad Kamran (Steel Mills), Rao Shahid (Army), Qaiser Raza (Wapda), Adnan Javed (PIA).

Halves Rana Asif (Wapda), Dilawar Hussain (PIA), Muhammad Saqlain (ABL), Zeeshan Ali (KESC), Waqas Zafar (Army), Sibtain Raza (NBP), Khurram Shahzad (HBL).

Forwards Ali Baig (Police), Noman (NWFP), Kashif Ali (Railways), Shakeel Abbasi (SSGC), Waqas Sharif (Wapda), Waqas Akbar (PIA), Arshad (Army), Rana Javed (Wapda), Akhtar ALI (NBP), Sajid Junaid (KESC), Muhammad Amin (Quetta), Shabir Khan (SSGC), Asim Khan, Tariq Aziz, Sajjad Anwar, Saeed Shah, Imtiaz Panu and Ibrar Haider.

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