LAHORE, June 29: Twenty-seven probables have been invited for the national hockey camp for the Asian Games to be held in Busan, South Korea, from Sept 29 to Oct 14.

The camp will be set up at National Hockey Stadium from Sept 15 to 23. It will start after the team returns from Germany where it is scheduled to play Champions Trophy from Aug 30 Sept 8.

Probables:

PIA: Ahmad Alam, Kamran Ashraf, Mohammad Usman, Ali Raza, Aamir Saleem

Wapda: Sohail Abbas, Mudassir Ali Khan, Mohammad Qasim, Mohammad Shabbir, Rehan Butt, Shahid Rabbani

PTCL: Tariq Imran, Ghazanfar Ali, Khalid Saleem, Salman Akbar, Nadeem Iqbal, Mohammad Aqeel, Asim Chohan

NBP: Mohammad Nadeem, Zeeshan Ashraf, Jawaid Iqbal

Army: Dilawar Husain

ABL: Mohammad Saqlain, Mohammad Sarwar, Imran Rasool

HBL: Waseem Ahmad, Kashif Jawwad

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