Pakistan Disabled Cricket Association (PDCA) on Thursday announced 15-member Pakistan physical disability cricket team to feature in Physical Disability World Series being played in Worcestershire, England from August 5 to 13. On behalf of Iqbal Imam, chief selector of Pakistan Disabled Cricket Association (PDCA), who is in South Africa with Pakistan women's cricket team as a batting coach after the approval of former Pakistan captain and PDCA president Rashid Latif member selection committee Muhammad Jawed announced the Pakistan squad.
Speaking at a news conference at the PCB Regional Academy NSK in connection with Pakistan team's participation in the World Series, Jawed said: "The selection of the Pakistan team was very difficult because we had a bunch of talented players who performed exceptionally at domestic and international levels. The selection was done after players took part in the fitness camp in National Stadium Karachi (NSK) supervised by PCB physio Sardar Imran, trainer Rashid Qureshi head coach Sabih Azhar, along with Iqbal Imam, member selection committee Muhammad Jawed, Javed Asraf and PDCA secretary Amiruddin Ansari.
Former Pakistan captain Waseem Bari appreciated the efforts of Pakistan Disabled Cricket Association to promote the disabled cricket not in Pakistan but also around the world, "I am very hopeful the Pakistan physically disabled cricket team will be the winner in up-coming World Series in England", he said.
Pakistan physical disability team's two-day conditioning camp will be held at the PCB Regional Academy after Eid while the week-long training camp will be held in third week of July and the team will leave for England on 2nd August.
Pakistan will play their opening match against host England August 5, against Afghanistan on August 6, against Bangladesh on August 8, while the big match between Pakistan and India will be played on August 9.
The selectors also named four-reserve players while team officials will announced later because the organizer allowed only five officials but we tri and request sensed to organizer to allow more official.
Former Pakistan captain Waseem Bari, representative PCB Arshad Khan, Vice President PDCA Fawad Mustafa, Media Manager Muhammad Nizam, Member Board of Director Sadiq Khatri were also present on the occasion.
SQUAD: Nihar Alam (capt), Jahanzeb Tiwana (vc), Hasnain Alam, Saif Ullah (wk), M Shahbaz, Wajid Alam, Majid Hussain, Hamza Hameed, Abdullah Ejaz, Waqaf Shah, Hammad Shaukat, Matloob Qureshi, M Haris, Zubair Saleem, Farhan Saeed. Reserve players: Rehan Ghani Mirza, Adil Abbasi, Kashif Nawaz, Arif Richard and Sher Ali.