KARACHI, Feb 20 Sixteen boys were short listed from the 65 representing Sindh and Balochistan who appeared for trials to select the National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) Under-18 hockey team here at the Hockey Club of Pakistan (HCP) on Saturday.

The boys will appear for final trials along with the players hailing from Punjab, NWFP and Kashmir at the National Hockey Stadium on Feb 25.

The trials were watched by the selection committee comprising International Syed Ehtesham Ali Warsi, International Syed Asghar Hussain, International Khawar Javed and Gulfraz Ahmed Khan (SHA president) but minus its chairman Olympian Rana Mujahid, who was in India as part of the two-member committee sent to assess the security situation in India ahead of the Hockey World Cup.

The trials were also watched by Head of NBP Sports Department Iqbal Qasim who remained instrumental in the disqualification of two overage boys from the process.

Probables Agha Abid, Ali Hasan (Karachi), Ayaz Shabbir, Shujaat Ali Khan, Mohammad Ali, Mohammad Junaid, Riaz Ali, M. Sarfaraz, Sohail Ashraf, Ali Noman Sadik, Ahmed Ghaffar, Salman Khan, Wasim Aslam, Mohammah Ali Hasan (Quetta), Yasir Ghafoor, Raheel Nawaz.