LAHORE: Pakistan will play Bangladesh in the opening match of the Asian Under-19 Cricket Tournament on October 31 at National Stadium Karachi.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Wednesday released the match programme of the tournament which features Bangladesh, India and hosts Pakistan. The week-long event will be played in Karachi and Lahore.
It will be a 50-over-a-side tournament to be contested on a single league basis. A PCB spokesman said each participating country would nominate one umpire and the matches would be played in daylight.
A three-member technical committee comprising Zakir Khan, Iqbal Qasim and Abdul Raquib has been constituted to hold the event in a befitting manner.
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[li]Oct 31: Pakistan vs Bangladesh at National Stadium Karachi, Sri Lanka vs India at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore
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[li]Nov 2: Pakistan vs India at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka at National Stadium, Lahore
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[li]Nov 4: Pakistan vs Sri Lanka at National Stadium Karachi, Bangladesh vs India at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore
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[li]Nov 6: Final at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore
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LAHORE: Khalid Latif was on Saturday named the Pakistan Under-19s captain for this month’s quadrangular Asian Under-19 tournament that will be played at Lahore and Karachi. The event will begin on October 31 and conclude on November 6 with the final scheduled for the Gaddafi Stadium.
Wahab Riaz has been appointed vice-captain. The most important and much-awaited clash of the tournament is Pakistan Under-19 versus India Under-19, to be played at the Gaddafi Stadium on November 2.
Bangladesh: Nafees Iqbal Khan, Mohammad Naeem Islam, M Nazimuddin, Aftab Ahmed Chowdhury, Shahriar Nafees Ahmed, Mohammad Abul Bashar Shaikh, Arafat Sunny, Gazi Sahagir, Hossain Pavel, Nadif Chowdhury, Mir Ifti Khairul Islam, Mohammad Rubaiyat Huq, Mohammad Enamul Haque, Mohammad Ziaur Rahman and Kazi Shahadat Hussain.
India: Robin Utappa, Shivkant Shukla, Sahil Kukreja, Ambati Rayudu, Sunny Singh, Avinash Yadav, V R Singh, Suresh Raina, Rakesh Solanki, Raiphi Gomez, Dinesh Karthik, Irfan Pathan, Piyush Chawla and Saurav Sarkar.
LAHORE, Oct 28: Pakistan junior team coach, Aaqib Javed, on Tuesday said that the four-nation tournament starting from Friday will be a good build up for all the participating teams to prepare for the forthcoming World Junior Cup.
Besides Pakistan, the other three teams participating in the quadrangular contest are India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Talking to reporters at the National Cricket Academy Aaqib stated that such competitions were valuable to evaluate players capabilities for bigger and important events like World JuniorCup to be held at Dhaka, Bangladesh, next year.
The former Test pacer said that his team was well balanced and had the ability to beat any participating team. Pakistan team leaves for Karachi on Wednesday morning to play the first match against Bangladesh at National Stadium on Friday. The Indian team which is reaching here on Wednesday, will play all its matches at Lahore.
**Meanwhile, PCB has replaced unfit pacer Yasir Ali with Aziz-ul-Haq. **
PCB has issued the timings of the matches. All the matches will begin at 9am.
PCB’s coach selection policy is a real mystery to me. Why can’t we appoint qualified professional coaches for the young team. There was this guy on Indus TV news the other day and he mentioned he’s passed level 3 coaching training programe from England. He said there are only two or three people in Pakistan who have done that. And he’s not an unknown entity to PCB. He mentioned Ramiz’s name quite frequently and how he discussed stuff with Rameez several times. Now why can’t we have him as a coach? Earlier I thought he should coach our national team, but I now think that juniors need him more since this is where most of the work is done anyway.
India Under-19s 194/9 (50 ov) v Sri Lanka Under-19s 61/2 (13.0 ov)
Sri Lanka Under-19s require another 134 runs with 8 wickets and 37.0 overs remaining
HE Vithana 23* GT Desilva 14* Piyush Chawala 2/15 S Raina 0/12
Last wicket: 40/2
Another day dominated by the bowlers. Pakistan must have to win against Sri Lanka to secure it's place in the tournament. Only Salman Qadir s/o Abdul Qadir was able to hit out. Rest of Pakistani players collasped.
India, however, will have slight edge to secure its place in the tournament as it's opponent is Bangladesh.
