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LAHORE, May 29: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Wednesday named players for the regional academies at Karachi, Muridke, Rawalpindi and Peshawar that will begin June 3.

Haroon Rashid and Rashid Khan were named coaches for Karachi; Azhar Khan and Aaqib Javed for Muridke; Masood Anwar and Naveed Anjum for Rawalpindi and Farrukh Zaman and Ehteshmauddin for Peshawar.

KARACHI

Batsmen: Asha Sabir, Saqib Zia, Wajid Ali, Khalid Latif, Atif Ali Zaidi, Asim Kamal, Ariz Kamal, Mohammad Farooq, Faisal Iqbal (all Karachi), Manzoor Ahmad, Arun Lal (both Quetta), Hameedullah (Pishin), Taj Wali (Hyderabad), Syed Rehan (Mirpurkhas).

Pacers: Tabish Khan, Sharif Asadullah, Adeel Malik, Owais Athar (all Karachi), Mohsin Razaullah (Sukkur)

Spinners: Ali Zafar, Azam Hussain, Irfanuddin (all Karachi), Abdur Sattar (Larkana), Agha Tahir (Mirpurkhas), Pir Zulfiqar Dadu), Mohammad Qasim (Quetta)

Wicketkeepers: Amin-ur-Rehman, Naeem KHan (both Karachi)

Local boys: Mohammad Umair Shahzad, Danial Ahsan, Noman Alvi, Umair Mumtaz, Fahad Iqbal

MURIDKE

Batsmen: Salman Butt, Khaqan Arsal, Adnan Raza, Kashif Mahmood, Kamran Sajid (all Lahore), Naeemuddin, Kamran Younis (both Gujranwala), Javed Husain (Sheikhupura), Shahid Yousuf (Sialkot), Mohammad Ali (Multan), Asif Iqbal (Bahawalpur)

Pacers: Aizaz Cheema, Wahab Raza, Arslan Mir, Junaid Zia (all Lahore), Tanvir Ahmad (Sahiwal), Nadeem Javed, Mohammad Yasin (both Sheikhupura), Samiullah Niazi (Sargodha), Farhan Ahmad (Multan)

Spinners: Hafiz Bilal, Raza Ali Dar, Azhar Ali (all Lahore), Majid Majeed (Rahimyar Khan), Mobashir Ahmad (Bahawalpur), Manzoor Amjad (Sialkot)

Wicketkeepers: Adnan Akmal, Shahbaz Iqbal, Zulqarnain Haider (all Lahore).

Local boys: Irfan Haider, Shahid Siddique, Khalil Ahmad, Mohammad Ishaque

NWFP

Batsmen: Zeeshan Mohsin, Aftab Khan, Mohammad Fayyaz, Mohammad Idrees, Yasir Hameed (all Peshawar), Abid Khan, Sajid Khan, Mumtaz Khan, Mohammad Shaique (all Fata), Mohammad Faheem, Mohammad Naeem (D.I.Khan), Akbar Badshah (Nowshera)

Bowlers: Kamran Ali, Shehryar Khan, Abdul Nasir, Dilawar Khan, Manzoor Khan, Umar Gul (all Peshawar), Hilal Afridi, Riaz Afridi, Shakir-ur-Rehman, Imran Khan (all Fata), Aizaz Khan (Bannu), Abid Iqbal (Kohat), Imran Durrani (Nowshera), Yasir Shah (Swabi)

Local boy: Ahmad Jan

RAWALPINDI

Masood Asim, Nauman Awan, Shoaib Jan, Zahid Mehmood, Salman Saeed, Osama Shabbir, Ameer Khan, Shahid Mehmood, Saad Altaf, Haseeb Amjad, Muneer Ansari, Najaf Shah (all Rawalpindi), Mohammad Altaf, Mohammad Fayyaz, Zeeshan Nadir, Saifur Rehman, Raja Kashif, Talat Hussain (all Islamabad), Sohrab Aslam, Afaq Rahim, Mir Usman, Abdul Shakoor, Yasir Ali, Nadeem Sikander (both Attock), Amjad Waqas (Haripur), Imran Khan (Haripur Hazara), Naved Latif (Sargodha).

Local boys: Yasim Murtuza, Sohail Akram, Zaheeruddin Babar, Danish Hanif, Riaz Afridi, Atif Khan.

APP ADDS: The executive council of the Karachi City Cricket Association (KCCA), that met on Wednesday, decided to launch academies in each of the seven zones of Karachi and one at KCCA Cricket Academy.

The council decided to ask the zonal office hearers to submit their proposals in this behalf to secretary KCCA by June 10.

The council also decided to launch the KCCA annual talent hunt program. Inter-zonal U-15, U-17 and U-19 tournaments will be organized after conducting open trials in each zone.

The council also decided to the start of inter-zonal U-19 cricket tournament from June 9.

It also approved the plan to start the construction work at the KCCA Stadium in the right earnest from early next month.

© Dawn