The national selection committee has announced the four teams for the Super League one-day Ramadan Cup starting at the Gaddafi Stadium from November 11.
The selection committee headed by Wasim Bari first picked the top 60 performers (last season and from the just concluded tournaments) and then equally divided them in four teams.
"The teams are of equal strength and we expect the matches to be competitive besides producing some real good talent", Wasim Bari said.
The teams will be allocated names once the sponsorship deals are finalized. Moin Khan was named captain of Team A, Shoaib Malik of Team B, Azhar Mahmood of Team C and Wasim Akram of Team D.
The replacements for Wasim Akram, Azhar Mahmood and Misbah-ul-Haq will be announced later as the three players are to leave for Zimbabwe either on November 16 or 18 for the five-match one-day international series.
Squads:
Team A: Shadab Kabir (Karachi), Naved Latif (Sargodha) (vice-captain), Shahid Qambrani (Hyderabad), Kamran Sajid (Lahore), Farhan Adil (Karachi), Rafatullah (Peshawar), Qaiser Abbas (Muridke), Tahir Mughal (Sialkot), Moin Khan (Karachi) (captain), Amin-ur-Rehman (Karachi), Fazl-e-Akbar (Peshawar), Zahid Saeed (Sialkot), Faisal Irfan (Quetta), Irfanuddin (Karachi), Danish Kaneria (Karachi)
Team B: Mohammad Ramzan (Faisalabad) (vice-captain), Zeeshan (Peshawar), Bazid Khan (Lahore), Asim Kamal (Karachi), Khaqan Arsal (Lahore), Azizullah (Quetta), Shoaib Malik (Sialkot) (captain), Zulqarnain (Lahore), Idrees Ahmed (Gujrat), Kamran Younis (Gujranwala), Azhar Ali (Lahore), Kashif Raza (Sheikhupura), Jaffar Nazir (Sheikhupura), Shabbir Ahmed (Khanewal), Najaf Shah (Rawalpindi)
Team C: Imran Farhat (Lahore), Salman Butt (Lahore), Ijaz Ahmed Jnr (Faisalabad), Usman Tariq (Bahawalpur), Asim Munir (Gujranwala), Babar Naeem (Rawalpindi), Bilal Asad (Islamabad), Salman Qadir (Lahore), Azhar Mahmood ) (Islamabad) (captain), Atiq-uz-Zaman (Karachi) (vice-captain), Adnan Akmal (Lahore), Naved-ul-Hasan (Sheikhupura), Umar Gul (Peshawar), Abdur Rauf (Okara), Abdul Rehman (Sialkot)
Team D: Imran Nazir (Sheikhupura), Saeed Anwar (Lahore) (vice-captain), Misbah-ul-Haq (Sargodha), Yasir Hameed (Peshawar), Naumanullah (Karachi), Sufyan Munir (Gujrat), Khalid Latif (Karachi), Afaq Raheem (Pakistan-administered Kashmir), Wasim Akram (Lahore) (captain), Yasir Arafat (Rawalpindi), Humayun Farhat (Lahore), Junaid Zia (Rawalpindi), Faisal Afridi (Sargodha), Waqar Ahmed (Peshawar), Aqeel Ahmed (Faisalabad).
The following are the timings of the matches:
Day matches:
0830-1200 - play
1200-1220 - change of innings
1220-1330 - play
1330-1400 - break for Zuhr prayers
1400-1620 - play
Day/Night matches:
1200-1330 - play
1330-1400 - break for Zuhr prayers
1400-1600 - play
1600-2100 - break for Iftar, Maghrib prayers and Taraweeh
2100-0030 - play
Night match:
2100-0030 - play
0030-0050 - change of innings
0050-0420 - play
Schedule and Officials:
Note:
Matches on 16 and 23 Nov. are Night matches
Matches on 17, 18 and 28 Nov. are Day & Night matches
All the remaining matches are day matches
Samiul Hasan
GM Media
November 3, 2002