The National Junior Selection Committee headed by Basit Ali has selected 15-member One-Day and T-20 squad of Pakistan Under-16 team for series against Australia Under-16 in the UAE. Umer Eman will lead the side in both One-Day and T-20 series. Pakistan Under-16 will feature in a five-match One-Day series and One T-20 match against Australia Under-16 from January 9, 2019.
All the six matches of the series will be played at ICC Cricket Academy, Dubai, where both teams will arrive on January 6, 2019. The five-match One-Day series will be played on January 9, 11, 13, 16 and 18, 2019, whereas the only T-20 match will be played on January 20, 2019, a PCB spokesman, said.
The selected players are: Ali Hassan; Sameer Saqib; Muhammad Shehzad; Haseebullah Khan; Umer Eman (Captain); Kashif Ali (Vice Captain); Rizwan Mehmood; Aseer Mughal; Zubair Shinwari (Wicket Keeper); Ali Asfand; Faisal Akram; Aliyan Mehmood; Ayaz Shah; Farhad Khan and Ahmed Khan.
The team management is comprised of Taimoor Azam Khan (Manager), M. Ashraf (Coach), Hussain Khosa(Assistant Coach), Rehan Khalid ( Physiotherapist), Imranullah (Trainer) and Usman Hashmi as Analyst.