Sports: Cricket: Training ahead of U19 Asia Cup begins August 23

Karachi:The training camp for ACC U19 Asia Cup 2019 will be held here in Karachi at Hanif Mohammad High Performance Center from August 23.

Pakistan U19 team will be seen pre paring for the ACC U19 Asia Cup 2019 (50-over tournament), which will be played in Sri Lanka from September 5 to 14. Pakistan is placed in Group A along with India, Afghanistan and Kuwait.

Pakistan U19 team will start its tournament campaign on September 5 with a match against their counterparts from Afghanistan. They will take on archrival India on September 7. The colts in green will play their last group match on September 9 against Kuwait.

The semifinals will be played on September 12 followed by final on September 14.

The 15 selected players are as Rohail Nazir (Islamabad) (captain, wicketkeeper), Haider Ali (Rawalpindi) (vice-captain), Aamir Ali (Larkana), Abu Huraira (DM Jamali), Abdul Wahid Bangalzai (Quetta), Akhtar Shah (Quetta), Fahad Munir (Lahore), Mohammad Aamir (Peshawar), Mohammad Abbas Afridi (FATA), Mohammad Basit Ali (Multan), Mohammad Haris (Peshawar), Mohammad Irfan Khan (Faisalabad), Mohammad Wasim JR (FATA), Naseem Shah (Lahore) and Qasim Akram (Lahore). The players in reserve are Jahanzaib Sultan (Karachi), Saim Ayub (Karachi), Syed Raza ul Hasan (Hyderabad), Shiraz Khan (Rawalpindi) and Zaman Khan (AJK).