The Blues will be depleted by the absence of senior batsman Basit Ali, who is unavailable for the five-day final against Peshawar at the National Stadium because of national duty with the Pakistan 'A' side. The final coincides with the third unofficial 'Test between Pakistan 'A' and India 'A' at the Qadhafi Stadium in Lahore with both matches commencing on March 1.

Apart from Basit, the Blues will not have the services of Munir-ulHaq, Shahid Iqbal, Kashif Ahmed and Ahmed Zeeshan Malik, all of whom are involved in the Patron's Trophy Grade-II Championship for various departmental teams.

The KCCA selection committee has asked the following cricketers to report to team manager Mehdi Hasan tomorrow at 2.00 p.m:

Asif Mujtaba, Sohail Jaffar, Nadeem Khan, Mahmood Hamid, Shadab Kabir, Azam Khan, Manzoor Akhtar, Javed Qadeer, Zafar Iqbal, Ali Gohar, Ali Raza, Lal Faraz, Ali Hussain Rizvi, Naeem Tayyab, Asim Kamal, Majid Mujtaba, Rizwan Qayyum, Akif Alvi, Rizwan Qureshi, Izhar Elahi, Zameer Ahmed Khan and M. Hasnain.