The National Selection Committee has finalized the Pakistan Probables for the one day series Vs The PCB Academy Probables as given below.They will play 5 One-day matches from 26th Jan to 2nd Feb.

1. Saeed Anwar	11. Saqlain Mushtaq
2. Imran Nazir	12. Shoaib Akhtar
3. Saleem Elahi	13. Azhar Mahmood
4. Inzamam-ul-Haq	14. Mushtaq Ahmed
5. Yousuf Youhana	15. Yasir Arafat
6. Shahid Afridi	16. Fazal-e-Akbar
7. Moin Khan	17. Faisal Iqbal
8. Wasim Akram	18. Younis Khan
9. Abdur Razzaq	19. Arshad Khan
10. Waqar Younis

All these players, less those busy in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy Final at Karachi will report to Gaddafi Stadium Lahore on 22nd Jan at 10.00 a.m. They will receive instructions from Coach Javed Miandad and will be tested by the PCB Medical Team. Other players will travel to Lahore on 24th Jan evening for the same purpose.

The playing XI for the Pakistan Probables will be announced a day earlier, than the match.

Pakistan Squad for New Zealand will be finalized after these 5 matches.

The Academy Probables Teams for the 1st and 2nd One day matches, as announced by the Selection Committee are as follows:

Lahore Tigers
1st One day at Gaddafi Stadium Lahore on 26th Jan (Day Match)

1. Imran Farhat	7. Shoaib Malik
2. Saeed Anwar jnr	8. Zahid Saeed
3. Imran Abbas	9. Kashif Raza
4. Bazid Khan (Captain)	10. Jaffer Nazir
5. Misbah-ul-Haq	11. Irfan Fazil
6. Kamran Akmal (Wicket Keeper)	12. Mohammad Hafeez (12th Man)

The Lahore Tigers will report to their Manager-cum-Coach, Mohsin Kamal at 3.00 p.m on 24th Jan at Gaddafi Stadium Lahore.

Lahore Panthers
2nd One day at Gaddafi Stadium Lahore on 27th Jan (Day/Night Match)

1. Taufeeq Umer	7. Saad Janjua
2. Mohammad Ramzan	8. Mohammad Shabbir
3. Faisal Iqbal (Captain)	9. Waqar Ahmed
4. Qaiser Abbas	10. Mubashir Nazir
5. Naved Latif	11. Mohammad Shafiq
6. Humayun Farhat (Wicket Keeper)	12. Shahid Yousaf (12th Man)

The Lahore Panthers will report to their Manager-cum-Coach at 3.00 p.m on 25th Jan at Gaddafi Stadium Lahore. Manager-cum-Coach for both these teams, i.e Lahore Tigers and Lahore Panthers will be Mohsin Kamal. Manager-cum-Coaches for the other 3 matches will be announced later.

The Lahore Tigers, and Panthers have been chosen from a list of over 60 current hopefuls for the PCB Academy. Other players will get their chance in the subsequent 3 matches. This list also includes some players from disadvantaged areas like, interior Sind, Baluchistan, Azad Kashmir and FATA for the sake of encouragement. These players had displayed superb performances in the Grade II circuit.

Dr. Riaz Ahmed will perform the duty of Team Doctor/Physio for all teams at all venues.

Local organization for these matches will be done by the local associations.

For subsequent organizational announcements, the PCB will issue fresh press releases as we go along.


BRIG. MUNAWAR AHMED RANA
Director PCB
21st January 2001

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