Pakistan local: Nearly 900 turn up at U-17 trials

Karachi, June 1: Nearly 900 boys turned up on the opening day of the three-day under-17 cricket trials here at the National Stadium on Thursday.

The trials are being held in various cities to pick the final probables for the national squad for the forthcoming Under-17 Asia Cup to be held in Pakistan.

The chairman of the national selection committee, Wasim Bari, who watched the trials with fellow selector Iqbal Qasim, assisted by Abdur Raqib, Taslim Arif, Tauseef Ahmed, Anwar Khan, Athar Laeeq, Atiq-ur- Rehman and Tahir Hassan, picked 105 cricketers for Friday's second phase, which begins at 8.30 a.m.

The list will be further pruned after the third and final phase of trials on Saturday.

Following were selected for second phase:

Batsmen: Mohammad Arshad, Ahmed Ali, Mushtaq Khan Afridi, Anas Ali Naqvi, Adnan Ahmed, M. Tahir Siddiqui, Syed Irfan Ali, Usman Shahid, Nadir Ahmed, Ahsan Iqbal, Ali Shafi, Raja Sohail, Emmad Ahmed, Faisal Ali Khan, Saad Wasim, Shahriyar, Emmad Butt, Kamran Ahmed, Umar Shahid, Usman Siddiqui, Atif Maqbool, Atif Ali Zaidi, Faiz Aslam Khan, Ehtesham Ahmed, Ariz Kamal, Farhan A. Siddiqui, Umair Ahmed, Imran Ahmed, Moazzam Shaikh, Syed Danish Rizvi, Mohsin Asad Gill, Munir Nasir, Jahangir Junadi, Mughiz Moeen, Manoj, Mohammad Imran Hafeez, Adeel Shakeel Shaikh, Irfan Aslam, Mohammad Asif Zakir, Asif Lodhi, Irfan Mushtaq, Saad Saleem, Javed Ghaffar, Wijdan Siddiqui, Imran Saeed, Fahad Mahboob, Mohammad Irfan-ul-Haq, Shahnawaz Khan, Syed Kashif Nadeem, Zeeshan Tariq, Sajjad Ahmed, Fawwad Ali, Arsalan Gulzar, Haider Ali, Usman Farhat, Rahat Nasim, Zain Alam and Fahad Alauddin.

Pace bowlers: Haseeb Azad, Umar Shahid, Usman Cheema, Mohammad Salam, Syed Zeeshan Ahmed, Kamran Khan, Sajid Afridi, Javed Ilyas, Kamran Zafar, Basil Joseph, Mushtaq Hussain, Ahmed Ali, Khurram, Furqan Haider, Afsar Ahmed, M. Rafiq, Haaris Alam, Kashif Khalid, Farrukh Nawab, Syed Owais Ahmed, Owais Athar, Shahriyar Ali, Tariq Khan, Asad, Zohair Naseer, Usman Shahid, Zubair Malik, Ahmed Ali, Asif Qadir, Abdul Rasheed, Fida Hussain, Mohammad Asad, Amjad Hussain, Mohammad Ali Lakhani and Raheel Ahmed.

Spinners: Syed Azam Hussain, Farid Iqbal, Pir Nawaz Ali, Junaid Jamshed, Saim Anwar, Ikramullah Shaikh and Ahmer Farooqui.

Wicket-keepers: Farhan Saeed, Mohammad Ashfaq, Mohammad Irfan Ansari, Faisal Ali Khan and Amin-ur-Rehman.