Pakistan Under-19 team announced

A 15-member Pakistan under-19 team for the Nov 18 first onedayer against Sri Lanka Under-19 was named Monday. Lefthanded Salman Butt was retained captain.

The Sri Lankans will arrive in Karachi on Nov 15 to play five one-dayer at Karachi, Rawalpindi and Sheikhupura and two at Lahore.

Brig (retd) Javed Tippu is the manager while former Test batsman Haroon Rashid is the coach.

A PCB spokesman said Monday that the matches at Karachi, Lahore and Rawalpindi will be 50-over-a-side but at Sheikhupura it would be 45-over-a-side.

The matches at Karachi, Lahore and Rawalpindi will be played from 9am to 4:30pm. At Sheikhupura the match will played between at 9am and 3:50pm.

Allrounder Salman Qadir, son of the legendary legspinner Abdul Qadir, found himself unlucky when he was not included in Pakistan's Under-19 team to face Sri Lanka.

Salman was the best Pakistani player in the Asian Under-17 held in Dhaka last year.

Batting at number six he hit 71 and 102 (against eventual champions Peshawar) in the Under-19 championship Grade-I, also taking 1-38 in the limited opportunities he got.

Salman hit 108 in a trial match last week.

Rawalpindi's Munir Ansari and Bahawalpur's Mubashir Ali are other glaring omissions.

Ansar, with a Muralitharan look alike action, took 5-58 and 4-28, 2-10, 5-41, 4-74, 20 wickets in the three-day event and took 1-28, 4-17 and 2-28 in the one-day version of Under-19 this season.

Mubashir of Bahawalpur had figures of 6-6, 5-18, 2-37, 6-48 and 3-71 in the Under-19 three day matches besides scoring 47 and 34.

Gujranwala's Naeemuddin hit 176, 82 and 25 in the three matches (3-day), Ariz Kamal of Karachi hit 103 not out and took 2-8 in one-day matches Under-19, 54, 52 not out and two wickets in other matches.

PCB claims that Peshawar's Zeeshan Mohsin is injured but Peshawar people said he is fit and is playing at club level. Zeeshan hit 114 and 135 in Peshawar's final win over LCCA and hit 89 in the semi-final against Bahawalpur.

Salman Butt (captain), Khaqan Arsal, Asim Munir, Mohammad Fayyaz, Kamran Younis, Saqib Zia, Arslan Mir, Kamran Sajid, Irfanuddin, Azam Husain, Azhar Ali, Junaid Zia, Umer Gul, Najaf Shah, Amin-ur-Rehman.