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Pakistan U-19 cricket team set to tour Bangladesh next month to play a four-day and five ODI matches against the winners of ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup. The 20-member squad has been chosen by the national juniors’ selection committee in consultation with the Pakistan U-19 head coach.

The tour will help the players to prepare for next year’s ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup in the West Indies. 

“The tour provides a wonderful grooming opportunity for the players against one of the most formidable U-19 sides at present which won the ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup last year. We have a talented bunch of players and a number of them have proven their worth already at the domestic circuit in the recently concluded season,” said Pakistan U-19 head coach Ijaz Ahmed.

The team will depart on April 12, the team will play two 50-over practice matches and a three-day match during a 10-day long camp in Lahore.

Pakistan U-19 squad for Bangladesh tour:

Abbas Ali, Abdul Faseeh, Abdul Wahid Bangalzai, Fahad Munir, Maaz Sadaqat, Mohammad Irfan Niazi, Mohammad Shehzad, Qasim Akram and Rizwan Mehmood, Haseebullah and Raza-ul-Mustafa, Aaliyan Mehmood, Ali Asfand, Arham Nawab and Faisal Akram, Ahmed Khan, Asim Ali, Muneeb Wasif, Tahir Hussain and Zeeshan Zameer

Tour schedule:

12 April – Departure for Dhaka

16-18 April – Training, Sylhet

19-22 April – Four-day match; SICS, Sylhet

26 April – 1st 50-over match; SICS, Sylhet

28 April – 2nd 50-over match; SICS, Sylhet

30 April – 3rd 50-over match; SICS, Sylhet