KARACHI, Dec 4: Former Pakistan captain Moin Khan is to play for Karachi in the forthcoming Quaid-e-Azam Trophy cricket tournament, it was officially announced.

Karachi, last year’s runnersup, have announced 100 probables for its two teams which will compete in the Trophy matches starting from Jan 2 at various venues of the country.

Moin, 27, has been out of favour at national level since Pakistan’s tour of New Zealand in March early this year. Eighteen teams from all over Pakistan will compete in the Quaid Trophy, one of the two premier first-class cricket tournaments in Pakis-tan.

The teams are divided into two pools with the top two qualifying for the final.

Meanwhile, The KCCA has invited the following players to report for trials to select two KCCA teams for the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Grade I on 5th and 6th December 2001 at 1.00 p.m. at the National Stadium Academy nets.

Cricketers to appear Wednesday at 1.00 p.m.

Moin Khan, Asif Mujtaba, Hasan Raza, Shahid Afridi, Shadab Kabir, Ghulam Ali, Ali Naqvi, Mohammad Sami, Danish Kaneria, Faisal Iqbal, Saeed Bin Nasir, TAnveer Ahmed, Shahid Iqbal, Tariq Haroon, Tabish Nawab, Iqbal Imam, Ahmed Zeeshan Malik, Adnan Malik, Mohammad Zafar, Jaffer Qureshi, Wajid Ali, Faraz Patel, Khalid Latif, Ashraf Ali, Tariq Rasheed, Zubair Javed, Imran Khan, Mohammad Ghazan, S.M. Baber, Ahmed Shafi, Zeeshan Siddiqui Junior, Saad Umer, Salman Khan, Mansoor Ahmed Senior, Waseem Naeem, Ahmer Saeed, Mutahir Shah, Kashif Ibrahim. Sheraz Hyder, Maisam Hasnain, Anis ur Rehman and Zamir Ahmed Khan.

Cricketers to appear Thu at 1.p.m.

Rashid Latif, Sajid Ali, Afsar Nawaz, Atiq uz Zaman, Nomanullah, Farhan Adil, Asim Kamal, Imran Mohammad, Saad Waseem. Agha Sabir, Imran Javed, Tahir Khan, Mansoor Khan, Arif Mehmood, Saif Ashraf, Mohammad Masroor, Rizwan Saeed, Mubashir Ahmed, Mansoor Baig, Waqar Kundi, Mir Rasheed, Javed Qadeer, M. Farooq, Atif Ali Zaidi, Rajesh Ramesh, Mohammad Farukh, Zeeshan Essa, Shahid Dawood, Atif Maqbool, Mushtaq Afridi, Zeeshan Pervez, Tariq Ali, Salman Fazal, S.A. Faheem, Farman Ali, Adnan Kaleem. Bilal Mirza. The following fast bowlers have been asked report to the stadium on both the days.

Ali Raza, M. Hasnain, Sharif Abdullah, Raheel Sayani, Tabish Khan, Tausif Qadri and Iktikhar Ali.

The Test and one-day international cricketers have been advised only to convey their availability and fitness to Zafar Ahmed, Camp Commandant.

Munir Hussain, President KCCA, has formed the following selection committee for the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy. Lt. Col. Mustahsan Billah, Chairman, Aftab Baloch, Shoaib Habib and Zafar Ahmed, who will also be member-secretary of the Committee.