The junior selection committee has named 21 probables for December's Asia Cup to be played at Sharjah, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. The tournament will run between December 7 and 21.

Chief selector Zaheer Abbas said the 14-player squad would be named in the first week of December. The Pakistan cricket team, that finished second to Sri Lanka a couple of years ago at Karachi's National Stadium, will depart for Sharjah on December 12 and will open their campaign on December 15.

The tournament will begin on December 7 with two top teams from Associate Member groups to join the four full members - Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh - in the Super League stage.

The 10 Associate Members are divided into two groups:

Group A: Oman, Maldives, Hong Kong, UAE and Thailand.

Group B: Malaysia, Nepal, Kuwait, Singapore, Qatar.

Probables:
Batsmen: Adnan Raza (Lahore), Ramiz Raja (Karachi), Suleman Akbar (Lahore), Yasir Arfat (Peshawar), Fazal Mahmood (Karachi), Nasir Jamshed (Lahore), Suleman Ali (Sheikhupura), Suleman Muzamil (Multan), Shaan Masood (Karachi), Fayyaz Ahmad (Rawalpindi)

Spinners: Mansoor Amjad (Sialkot), Reza Ali Dar (Lahore), Fahad Zaman (Peshawar), Asif Hameed (Karachi)

Fast bowlers: Umar Khaliq (Rawalpindi), Mohammad Jamsheed (Lahore), Nasir Khan (Peshawar), Nawaz Sardar (Sheikhupura), Zain Shahnawaz (Lahore)

Wicketkeeper: Owais Ahmad (Karachi), Kamran Naeem (Faisalabad)

Samiul Hasan
G.M - Media
November 24, 2002

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