LAHORE: Pakistan’s national junior hockey team left for Australia here in the early hours of Friday. They will be participating in a highly competitive Australian National Junior Championships. The 2017 Women’s and Men’s Australian Junior Championships will take place in Hobart, Tasmania from April 19-29l. In what would be a first of its kind, after the Junior Championship, the boys will stay in Australia for around four months. They will appear in Australia’s Hockey League for various club teams. Before departure, team’s head coach Kamran Ashraf said: “Australia are the reigning world champions. The boys will learn a lot playing in Australia’s domestic circuit. They will also be attending training sessions conducted by famed Australian coaches.” Bahawalpur’s Junaid Manzoor is the captain of junior team and Lahore’s Moin Shakeel is his deputy.
Pakistan junior hockey team:
Waqar Younis, Amjad Ali Khan, Moin Shakeel (vice captain), Rizwan Ali, Adeel Latif, Akmal Hussain, Khair Ullah Shah, Ahmad Nadeem, Ali Aziz, Junaid Manzoor (captain), Shahzaib Khan, Naveed Alam, Ghazanfar Ali, Zakir Ullah, Abdullah Babar, Umair Sattar, Ali Raza, Mohammad Afraz, Hammad Anjum, Waqar Ali and Awais Arshad.