LAHORE, Oct 28: Pakistan junior team coach, Aaqib Javed, on Tuesday said that the four-nation tournament starting from Friday will be a good build up for all the participating teams to prepare for the forthcoming World Junior Cup.

Besides Pakistan, the other three teams participating in the quadrangular contest are India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

Talking to reporters at the National Cricket Academy Aaqib stated that such competitions were valuable to evaluate players capabilities for bigger and important events like World JuniorCup to be held at Dhaka, Bangladesh, next year.

The former Test pacer said that his team was well balanced and had the ability to beat any participating team.

Pakistan team leaves for Karachi on Wednesday morning to play the first match against Bangladesh at National Stadium on Friday.

The Indian team which is reaching here on Wednesday, will play all its matches at Lahore.

Meanwhile, PCB has replaced unfit pacer Yasir Ali with Aziz-ul-Haq.

PCB has issued the timings of the matches.

All the matches will begin at 9am.

Pakistan squad: Khalid Lateef (captain), Wahab Riaz (vice-captain), Sohail Ahmad, Khurram Manzoor, Jehangir Mirza, Shahid Yousaf, Mohammad Altaf, Salman Qadir, Mansoor Amjad, Riaz Afridi, Ali Imran Pasha, Zulqarnain Hussain Hyder (wicket-keeper), Tariq Mehmood, Aziz-ul-Haq. Officials Manager: Mohammad Ilyas. Coach: Aaqib Javed. Doctor: Sohail.

Schedule of the matches:

Oct 31: Pakistan vs Bangladesh, National Stadium, Karachi; India vs Sri Lanka, Gaddafi Stadium.

Nov 2: India vs Pakistan, Gaddafi Stadium; Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh, Karachi.

Nov 4: Pakistan vs Sri Lanka, National Stadium, Karachi; India vs Bangladesh, Gaddafi Stadium.

Nov 6. Final.