Khalid Latif to lead Pakistan U-19s

Khalid Latif, the opening batsman, has been named as Pakistan's captain for next month's Under-19 World Cup in Bangladesh.

Khalid has played 10 first-class matches, as well as two U-19 `Tests' against Sri Lanka in August last year. In junior one-day cricket, he has played eight matches, and he scored 98 in his first appearance for Allied Bank in this season's inter-departmental qualifying round.

He has some captaincy experience as well. He led Pakistan on three occasions - against Malaysia U-17 in 2000, Sri Lanka in August 2003, and in the Asian U-19 tournament at Lahore and Karachi.

Squad Khalid Latif (capt), Adnan Zaheer, Abid Ali, Jahangir Mirza, Mohammad Asif Iqbal, Fawad Alam, Zulqarnain Haider (wk), Tariq Mahmood, Mansoor Amjad, Usman Saeed, Salman Qadir, Wahad Riaz, Mohammad Riaz Afridi, Ali Imran Pasha.