Emerging cricketers team to leave for Denmark tomorrow (24 July 1999)

24 July 1999

Emerging cricketers team to leave for Denmark tomorrow

The Dawn

Lahore, July 23: A Pakistan Emerging cricket team, comprising 14 players and two officials will leave Karachi on July 25 for a three-week tour of Denmark and Holland.

A spokesman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) ad hoc committee announced on Friday evening that the team would play four matches in Denmark and five matches in Holland during the tour. The team will be led by Muhammad Yasir Arafat and Faisal Iqbal will be his deputy. Saadat Saeed Chaudhary is accompanying the team as manger and Muhammad Qasim Kurd as assistant manager.

The composition of the team which includes just one Test played in Imran Nazir is:

Yasir Arafat (captain) (RDCA), Faisal Iqbal (vice-captain) (KCCA), Imran Khan (KCCA), Kashif Siddique(LCCA), Jan Nisar Khan (PDCA), Imran Farhat (LCCA), Wasif Ali (LCCA), Danish Kaneria (KCCA), Yasir Bashir (LDCA), Faisal Athar Syed (HDCA), Imran Nazir (LCCA), Atiquz Zaman (KCCA), Zaheer Ahmar Khan (LDCA) and Javed Nauman (NDFC).

Tour itinerary (all 50-over-a-side matches, except two):

July 25 - departure for Denmark

July 29 - PE XI v Denmark Development XI

July 31 - PE XI v Denmark

Aug 1 - PE XI v Denmark

Aug 2 - departure for Holland

Aug 3-4 - PE XI v Holland XI

Aug 6 - PE XI v Holland XI

Aug 7 - PE XI v Holland XI

Aug 10-11 - PE XI v Holland XI

Aug 13 - PE XI v Holland XI

Source :: The Dawn(www.dawn.com)