Lahore Regional Academy to start from 1st June at Sheikhupura

Pakistan Cricket board on Friday announced the names of the 20 players who will join the Regional Academy at Sheikhupura, which is to start functioning from June 1, 2001.

After the inauguration of the National Cricket Academy and Regional Academies at Karachi, Rawalpindi and Peshawar the start of the Regional Academy, Lahore at Sheikhupura will complete the phased programme of launching these academies.

The present term of the Regional Academy at Sheikhupura will last till August 25th 2001. Located at the Sheikhupura stadium, both the training and the lodging of the players will be at the same venue.

Former test players Shafiq Ahmed and Aqib Javed will be the coaches with Shafiq as the coach Incharge of the Academy. The selected players have been advised to report to Aqib javed at Sheikhupura Stadium on the May 31st afternoon.

Following are the names of the players selected for the Regional Academy Sheikhupura.

1	Kashif Ijaz	Lahore
2	Zaheer Maqsood	Lahore
3	Javed Hussain	Muridke
4	Wahab Riaz	Lahore
5	Akbar Ali	Sahiwal
6	Burhan Javed	Lahore
7	Umair Rao	Lahore
8	Adnan Zaheer	Sialkot
9	Farhan Rasheed	Lahore
10	Nadeem Karamat	Muridke
11	Kaleem Imran	Sheikhupura
12	Rana Bilal	Multan
13	Mohammad Ali	Multan
14	Samiullah Khan	Sargodha
15	Kamran Younis	Gujranwala
16	Faisal Mahmood	Lahore
17	Khaqan Arsal	Lahore
18	Abdul Hayee	Muridke
19	Fahad Masood	Lahore
20	Rizwan Arshad	Lahore

Khalid Butt
Media Manager
25 May 2001