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LAHORE, Feb 26: Twenty players have been called to join the National cricket camp which gets under way on Feb 28 at the Gaddafi Stadium. Pakistan squad for playing against Sri Lanka in the Asian Test Championship will be selected from the 20 players invited to the camp, says a press release of the Pakistan Cricket Board issued today.

Pakistan and Sri Lanka play the Asian Test at the Gaddafi Stadium on March 4. Three players out of 16 who toured India with the Pakistan teamhave been dropped Thirteen others have beenretained.The dropped players are:

Paceman Waqar Younis, right-arm leg-spinner Mushtaq Ahmad, opener Muhammad Naveed Qureshi.

Mushtaq Ahmad returned to Pakistan midway during the tour due to injury. In his place, off-spinner Arshad Khan was sent to Calcutta as a re-enforcement but not played in opener of the Asian Test Championship against India which Pakistan won.

Also recalled in the national camp are middle-order Test batsman Muhammad Wasim, pacemen Muhammad Akram and Shahid Nazir and Fazle Akbar.

Two newcomers in the camp will be young opener Imran Nazir and tall paceman Shabbir Ahmad and Naseem Khan from Quetta.

Following are the names of the 20 cricketers:

Wasim Akram (captain),Saeed Anwar, Shahid Afridi, Wajahtullah Wasti, Ijaz Ahmad, Inzimam-ul-Haq, Saleem Malik, Yousaf Youhana, Muhammad Waseem, Azhar Mahmood, Moin Khan, Shoaib Akhtar, Shahid Nazir, Saqlain Mushtaq, Arshad Khan, Naseem Khan (Quetta), Imran Nazir ,Muhammad Akram, Shabbir Ahmad, Fazle Akbar.