KARACHI: Saif-ur-Rehman will skipper defending KCCA Zone-VI in the forthcoming regional PCB Inter-district Under-19 cricket tournament it was announced here on Thursday.

The 20-member Zone-VI squad was picked by the PCB-nominated selection committee of former Test batsman Basit Ali and Asim Rizvi with Nabeel Hashmi acting as the observer.

The players have been advised to report to head coach Kashan Khan at the KCCA Stadium on Friday at 4:00pm for nets. Naveed Al-Amin has been named as the team manager.

The tournament starts from Friday but Zone-VI will play their opening two-day fixture against Zone-VII at the KCCA Stadium from Monday.

The opening-round matches see Zone-I take on Zone-III at the KCCA Stadium, Zone-II face Zone-IV at the TMC Ground and Zone-V clash with Zone-VII at the Landhi Gymkhana Ground.

Following are the squads:

ZONE-I: Saad Alam, Samiullah Afridi, Umar Abdul Rehman, Yasinullah, Jawwad Alam, Akbar Babar, Fawad Abbasi, Mohammad Kashif, Shiraz Malik, Shamraiz Jan, Saqib Abdul Razzaq, Hamaz Ansari, Mohammad Muslim, Ihsan Iqbal, Mohammad Ahsan, Ahmed Nawaz, Abdul Samad, Hamza Mahmood, Wasif Hussain, Widwanullah.

ZONE-II: Kashif Iqbal, Mohammad Asad, Ahmed Imam, Moheed Khan, Saeed Raza, Mohammad Nawaz, Gul Rehman, Imran Sharif, Ammad Alam, Mohammad Ali, Zeeshan Malik, Junaid Khan, M. Samama Rashid, Saim Ansari, Abdullah Siraj, Syed Faazullah, Mohammad Akif, Raja Qamar, Asadullah Galib, A. Hadi Mazhar.

ZONE-III: Shahzar Hussain, Ramis Shahid, Asim Abbasi, Mohammad Saad Rehan, Talib Hussain, Mohammad Rujab Raees, Taha Khan, Saqib Majeed, Anas Hameed, Akramullah, Karan Prakash, Mohammad Zeeshan, Samir bin Farooq, Usaid Ahmed, Mohammad Akhtar Ali, Muhammad Zohaib Ansari, Mohammad Akhtar.

ZONE-IV: Mohammad Yaqoob, Amir Idrees, Mohammad Ali, Arsalan Farzand, Amanullah, Mohammad Shahrukh, Mohammad Talha Tahami, Ali Raza Ansari, Khawar Aziz, Amir Zaib, M. Hanif Azad, Amir Zaib, M. Hanif Azad, Habib-ur-Rehman, Adeel Jahanzeb, Najeeb Memon, Farhan Hasan, Mohammad Saeed, Asadullah Hamza, Mohammad Rabeel Khan, Mohammad Farrukh, Raza Khan.

ZONE-V: Zohaib Abid, Ammar Yasir, Salman Khan, Tauseeq Ahmed, Shiraz Ali, Mohammad Arsal Bashir, Mohammad Imran, Khushhal Khan, Wasiuddin, Shahzaib, Saif Ali Ghori, Naseeb, Mohammad Shakir, Taimur Hasan, Ghulam Hussain, Bilal Ahmed Khan, Amir Muhammad, Rao Abdul Rafay. Farhad Ali.

ZONE-VI: Saif-ur-Rehman (captain), S.M. Tahami, Mohammad Khuzaima, Hamza Khan, Fahaddis Bukhari, Faizan Khan, Abrar Warsi, Kaleemullah, Shaharyar Butt, Usman Khalil, Shams-ul-Amin, Mohammad Zubair, Sarfraz Malik, Abdul Hameed Qadri, Ibadullah Khan, Alam Khurshid Shah, Abdul Rehman (wicket-keeper), Salman Khan, Hasan Mohsin, Zafar Ali.

ZONE-VII: Harman Waris, Hafiz Amin, Zohaib Afridi, Subhan Khan, Mohammad Tahir, Rahim Afridi, Qadir Khan, Zubair Dilawar, Mohammad Yousuf, Ali Hashmi, A. Rehman, Mohammad Shoaib Khan, Ehsanullah, Abdul Jabbar Jamil, Mohammad Mehdi, Rafiullah, Ghani Subhan, Muddasar Abbas, Ikram Hussain, Mohammad Shoaib.