LAHORE, July 20: Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) five under-19 provincial level academies will start functioning in different cities, all of four-week duration, from Monday (July 25).

The academies are being held in Abbottabad, Islamabad, Multan, Hyderabad and Karachi. Surprisingly, Lahore, Peshawar and Quetta, the capitals of the three provinces were not selected to hold the academies.

Moreover, while two major cities in Sindh — Karachi and Hyderabad — have been picked only one city in Punjab, the province with the highest population, was selected for the academy, even ignoring Lahore.The players belonging to Abbottabad, Sialkot and Peshawar will attend the academy at Abbottabad Cricket Ground. The boys from Islamabad and Rawalpindi have been asked to attend the academy at the Diamond Ground, Islamabad.

Aspiring cricketers from Lahore, Multan and Faisalabad will go to Multan to attend the academy.

The Hyderabad players will attend the academy in their city at the Niaz Stadium where they will be joined by some players of the Multan region.

Similarly, the boys of Karachi and Quetta will get coaching at the National Stadium in Karachi.

The players have been selected by national selection committee in consultation with director game development and regional association heads to undergo the above-mentioned provincial academy programme:

The names of players for the academies: Abbottabad Cricket Ground, Abbottabad: Kamran, Rana Wasim, Sami-ur-Rehman, Hasnain Khalid, Khushdil Shah, Khalid Kail, Riaz-ul-Amin, Kamran, Fawad Anjum, Ehtisham Sultan, Safiullah, Usman Shinwari, Babar Bakhtiar (Abbottabad); Mohammad Imran, Salman Shinwari, Ubaidullah Ibrahim, Musa Khan, Aimal Khan, Mehran Ibrahim, Jalal Bukhari, Matiullah (Peshawar); Abu Bakr Butt, Adnan Sikhu, Luqman Butt, Mukhtar Ahmed, Adeel Malik, Fayyaz Butt, Mohammad Azhar (Sialkot).

Diamond Cricket Ground, Islamabad: Abdul Wasay, Ali Nadeem, Sarmad Bhatti, Wajid Ali, Abdul Wajid, Junaid Ashraf, Sohail Ahmad, Adeel Irshad, Shahid Ilyas, Naqqash Basharat (Islamabad); Adnan Mahmood, Mohammand Nawaz, Tayyab Riaz, Umair Azam, Umar Waheed, Kaleem Sana, Mohammad Atlas, Tayyab Abbas, Shuja Haider, Talha Qureshi (Rawalpindi).

Multan Cricket Stadium, Multan: Babar Azam, Hussain Talat, Junaid Ali, Sami Aslam, Umar Siddiq, Abdul Matin, Asfand Mehran, Salman Ali, Usman Qadir, Zafar Gohar, Mohammad Waheed, Shoaib Akram, Waad-ur-Rehman, Rohail Ali, Ali Mustafa (Lahore); Moazzam Hayat, Mohammad Zubair, Waqas Ahmed, Waqas Wasif, Zeeshanullah, Munir Ahmed, Mohammad Farman, Hamad Faisal (Faisalabad).

Niaz Stadium, Hyderabad: Mir Darya Khan, Usman Ali, Sarang Bhutto, Haris Khanzada, Tariq Ahmed, Mohammad Raheel, Babar Khan, Mohammad Javed, Riaz Ahmed, Mohammad Yousuf, Nazir, Usama, Zafar, Moiz-ul-Haq, Iqrar Ali, Mohsin Khan (Hyderabad) Ahad Raza, Zain Abbas, Mohammad Rameez, Maqbool Ahmed, Shahzad Ali, Ali Raza, Mustansar Hussain, Kumail Abbas (Multan).

National Stadium, Karachi: Ahmer bin Nasir, Ahsan Ali, Faizan Khan, Faraz Ali, Junaid Ali, Faisal Tahir, Fawad Khan, Wasim Akhtar, Arif Khan, Abdullah Shah, Daniyal Mansoor, Israr-ul-Haq, Saad Ali, Wasim Ahmed, Maroof Aziz, Mir Hamza, Qamar Iqbal, Imran Dad Khan (Karachi); Abdul Rehman, Abid Ali, Ahmed Shah, Naushad Irshad, Sharafuddin, Shabbir Ali (Quetta).