Pakistan final 15 for Asia Cup to be named on 22nd

KARACHI - All other five contesting teams in Asia Cup cricket have finalised their fifteen member squad for the competition but hosts Pakistan have kept on hold the final team for the contest starting here June 24. Pakistani selectors on Thursday named a twenty-member team, which arrived here Friday to attend a brief three-day training and acclimatisation session. The final Pakistan 15 would be named on June 22 two days before the competition start. Following are the fifteen of the five visiting teams. INDIA: M. S. Dhoni (captain), Yuvraj Singh, Virendra Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Rohit Sharma, Irfan Pathan, Robin Uttappa, Suresh Raina, Manpreet Gony, Yusuf Pathan, Ishant Sharma, Pravin Kumar, R. P. Singh, Piyush Chawla, and Pragyan Ojha Officials: Arindham Ganguly (Admin. Manager), Gary Kirsten (Coach), Paddy Upton (PMCLC Coach),Venkatesh Prasad, Robindra Singh, Nitin Patel, C. M. R. Dhananjay, Russel Radhakrishnan, and Ramesh Mane SRI LANKA: Mahela Jayawardene (captain), Kumar Sangakkara (vice captain), Sanath Jayasuriya, Mahela Udawatte, Chamara Silva, T. M. Dilshan, Chamara Kapugedera, Farveez Maharoof, Kaushal Weeraratne, Chaminda Vaas, M. Muralidaran, Dilhara Fernando, AJantha Mendis, Nuwan Kulasekera, and Jehan Mubarak. Officials: Shriyan Samararatne (manager), Trevor Bayliss (coach), Paul Farbrace (assistant coach), Ranjith Nanayakkarawasam (physiotherapist), Jade Roberts (trainer), Nalin de Alwis (computer analyst), and Lal Thamel (masseur) BANGLADESH: Mohammad Ashraful (captain), Masrafe Bin Mortaza (vice captain), Mahmud Ullah, Tamim Iqbal Khan, Alok Kopali, Khan Abdur Razzak, Md. Farhad Reza, Shahriar Nafees Ahmed, Md. Nazim Uddin, Roqibul Hassan, Kazi Shahadat Hossain, Md. Mushfiqur Rahim (wicketkeeper), Mehrab Hossain, Dollar Mahmud, and Musharraf Hossain Officials: Mohammad Shafique Ul Haq (team operations manager), James Darren Siddons (head coach), Darryn Lifson (physio), and Nasir Ahmed (computer analyst). HONG KONG: Tabarak Dar (captain), Courtney Kruger, Afzaal Haidar, Butt Hussaln, Najeeb Amar, Ali Shkawat, Zain Abbas, Ashish Gadhia, Toby Brown, James John Atkinson, Roy Lamsam, Wakas Barkat, Nadeem Ahmed, Irfan Ahmed, and Moner Ahmed. Reserve Players: Shakeel Haq, Jawaid Iqbal, Zafaran Ali, Ghulam Mustafa, Nizakat Khan. Officials: Aftab Habib (coach), Ravi Nagdev (manager), Michael Waters (physio), Sher Lama (fitness trainer), and Sohail Murshed (executive manager), UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Saqib AU (captain), Mohammad Tauqir (vice captain), Arshad Ali, Khurram Khan, Zahid Shah, Amjad Ali, Alavi Shukri, Salman Farooq, Fahad Al Hashmi, Shadeep Silva, Mohammad Aman Ali, Amjad Javed, Vikrant Shetty, Nizel Gilbert Fernandez,. lndika Batuwitaarachchi, Reserve Player Ahemd Raza, Shoaib Sarvar, Palekar Bakhtiyar, Rameez Shahzad, and Mohammad Iqbal. Officials: Vasbert Connell Drakes (coach), Mazharhuddin Khan (manager), and Chitrala Sudhaker (physio).

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