LAHORE, May 11: The trials schedule to select players for the four regional cricket academies was announced Saturday.

The regional  academies will be set up at Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Muridke and Karachi.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), junior selection committee, has announced the names of the players who will appear in the trials to be held at different cities. The players were selected after observing their performance in the last national junior domestic season Grade I and Grade II.

The trials for the regional academy Peshawar will be held at Arbab Niaz Stadium, Peshawar on May 14 and 15, for Rawalpindi at the KRL ground on May 17 and 18 for Murdike at the Gaddafi Stadium on May 20 and 21 and for Karachi at the PCB Academy National Stadium, Karachi on May 23 and 24.

The PCB, like last year, did not announce the programme for the national academy.

Following are invited for the trials:

Muridke:

Batsmen: Asif Iqbal, Hamid Ali (Bahawalpur), Farhan Rafique, Nadeem Abbas (D.G Khan), Imran Jamil (Faisalabad), Atiq-ur- Rehman, Naeem-ud-Din, Kamran Younis, Asim Munir Butt (Gujranwala), Fayyaz Ahmed (Gujrat), Ali Akbar, Kashif Sohail (Hafizabad), Ilyas Haider (Jhang), Asif Ali (Jhelum), Zeeshan Atif (Kasur), Muhammad Ali (Lahore), Fahad-ul-Haque, Salman Butt, Khaqan Arsal Raja (Lahore Blues), Adnan Akmal, Adnan Raza, Arslan Mir, Salman Qadir (Lahore Whites), Ahmed Rashid, Farhan Ahmed, Muhammad Umair (Multan), Muhammad Ramzan (Okara), Majid Majeed (Rahim Yar Khan), Ali Ahmed, Muhammad Yasir (Rajanpur), Adnan Afzal, Zeeshan Ahmed (Sahiwal), Farrukh Shahzad, Muhammad Kashif, Usman Arshad (Sargodha), Javed Husain, Kashif Imran, Khalil Ahmed, Shahid Siddique (Sheikhupura), Faisal Khan, Shahid Yousaf (Sialkot), Asad Ali (Vehari). Bowlers: Mubashir Ali (Bahawalpur), Azhar Awais (Jhang), Waqar Ahmed (Kasur), Bilal Butt (Lahore Blues), Wahab Riaz, Muhammad Khalil (Lahore Whites), Ghulam Mustafa (Multan), Zulifqar Babar, Abu Bakar (Okara), Ahmed Raza (Rahim Yar Khan), Tanvir Ahmed (Sahiwal), Muhammad Asim (Sargodha), Nadeem Javed (Sheikhupura), Muhammad Yasin (Sheikhupura), Mansoor Amjad , Awais Malik (Sialkot), Faisal Rashid, Shahid Majeed (Vehari), Raza Ali Dar (Lahore).

KARACHI.

Batsmen: Sikandar Ali, Yasir Raza (Badin), haider Ali (Chagi), Abdul Rasheed, Shahnawaz Balouch, Sikander Ali (Dadu), Taj Wali, Muhammad Yasir, Muhammad Shafiq (Hyderabad), Muhammad Ali, Ali Ahmed, Abdul Malik (Jaccobabad), Tariq Sham, Jehanzeb (Kalat), Asim Kamal, Saeed Bin Nasir, Agha Sabir (Karachi), Faraz Patel, Saqib Zia, Mubashir Ahmed, Faisal Ali, Wajid Ali, Atif Ali (Karachi Blues), Khalid Latif, Ariz Kamal, Ahmar Saeed, Asif Zakir, Amin-ur-Rehman (Karachi Whites), Zafar Ali, Irfan Ali, Nizamuddin (Larkana), Aqeel Ahmed, Syed Rehan (Mirpur Khas), Talib Husain, Muhammad Anwar (Naseerabad), Kamran, Yousaf Khan (Nawabshah), Hameedullah (Pishin), Manzoor Ahmed, Rashid Yousaf, Sabir Husain, Shoaib Khan, S Ehtishamuddin (Quetta), Sajjad Husain (Shikarpur), Abdul Malik, Patris Masih (Sibi), Riaz Ahmed, Kashif Ali, Najeeb-ur-Rehman (Sukkur), Adnan Ameer, Muhammad Ali (Thatta), Najeeb Bashir, Abdul Ghaffar, Sajjad Habib (Turbat), Zeeshan Malik Hussain (Karachi).

Bowlers: Kamran Khan (Badin), Niamatullah (Chagi), Pir Zulifqar Ali (Dadu), Danzil Ryan, Nasir Awais (Hyderabad), Javed Ahmed (Jacoababad), Sanaullah (Kalat), Taabish Khan, Sharif Asadullah, Ali Zafar, Mujtaba Amin (Karachi Blues), Sabtain Raza (Karachi Whites), Abdul Sattar, Asadullah, Wasim Husain, (Larkana), Abdul Kabir, Naseeruddin (Loralai), Agha Tahir (Mirpur Khas), Shah Faisal (Pishin), Arun Lal, Mohammad Qasim, Umar Ali (Quetta), Inayatullah, Nazir Ahmed, Mohsin Razaullah (Shikarpur), Javed Raza, Maqsood Ahmed (Turbat).

RAWALPINDI:

Batsmen: Naseer Rasheed, Ashfaque Ahmed (Abbotabad), Sohrab Aslam, Afaq Rahim, Mir Usman, Shahnawaz Ahmed (Azad Jamu Kashmir), Adnan Rehman, Asim Nawaz, Ilyas Kareem, Farrukh Ali (Attock), Qaiser Ayub, Safeer Khan (Haripur), Muhammad Altaf, Rashid Amin, Raheel Majeed, Farrukh Hayat, Raja Kashif, Shakir Mehmood (Islamabad), Israr Akram, Zaheer Abbas (Mianwali), Masood Asim, Nauman Aman, Kashif Bashir (Rawalpindi).

Bowlers: Ihsanullah Danish, Muhammad Ali (Abbotabad), Abdul Shakoor, Arsalan Latif (AJK), Nadeem Sikandar, Yasir Ali (Attock), Amjad Waqas, Umair Khan (Haripur), Talat Husain (Islamabad), Muhammad Raza (Mianwali), Munir Ansari, Saad Altaf (Rawalpindi).

PESHAWAR.

Batsmen: Rahimbaz Khan, Rafiullah Khan, Niamatullah (Bannu), Muhammad Naeem, Muhammad Faheem, Muhammad Imran (D I Khan), Abid Khan, Sajid Afridi, Mumtaz Khan, Muhammad Shafiq, Muhammad Sohail (FATA), Qalandar Khan (Kohat), Yousaf Haroon (Mardan), Akbar Badhsh, Ataullah, Muhammad Madni (Nowshehra), Zeeshan Mohsin, Abdul Nasir, Aftab Khan, Muhammad Idrees, Kashif Hayat, Muhammad Fayyaz (Peshawar), Hazrat Husain, Muhammad Ijaz (Swat).

BOWLERS: Aizaz Khan, Naseeb Niaz (Bannu), Najam-ul-Hasan (D.I Khan), Hilal Afridi, Riaz Afridi, Imranullah (FATA), Abid Iqbal, Rehmat Shah (Kohat), Asif Iqbal (Mardan), Shah Laeeq, Husainullah Baig (Northern Areas), Muhammad Fahim, Imran Durrani (Nowshehra), Dilawar Khan, Kamran Ali, Shehryar Khan, Manzoor Khan, Shakil-ur- Rehman (Peshawar), Abid Khan, Saifuddin (Swat).