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Thursday, December 4 2008, Zilhaj 5, 1429

Ilyas named as chairman of Jr selection committee

Lahore—Former test cricketer, Muhammad Ilyas on Friday was named chairman of national junior selection committee which comprises another five members.
The three members of the committee are former test cricketers while rest are former first class players, said a spokesman of PCB here.
Basit Ali (Karachi) and Furrukh Zaman (NWFP) are the two other former test players while Ali Ahmad (Lahore),Asif Baloch (Balochistan) and Afzal Gujjar (Sindh) are the former first class players. It is the first time that former first class cricketers have been named selectors because we firmly believe they have ample experience of playing cricket at domestic level and can be good selectors to identify talent at grass root level”, he said.
He said the jr selection committee will be responsible for selecting U19,17,15 and academy teams.—APP