Oman team arrives for hockey series

KARACHI: Oman’s under-18 team arrived in Pakistan on Thursday and will play the first of the four tests against Pakistan on Friday (today) at the National Hockey Stadium in Lahore.

The eighteen players are accompanied by six officials.

The next three matches are on Saturday (tomorrow), Monday and Tuesday. The matches on Saturday and Tuesday will be played under floodlights.

Oman: Zuhair Azher Al-Rashdi, Ibrahim Nasser Al Hasni, Asama Khamis Al-Shibli, Sultan Ali Al Shibli, Adnan Khalil Al Hasani, Amir Ahmed Al Mashari, Abdullah Awadh Bait Faraj Alla, Faisal Saif Al Hadhrami, Marwan Khamis Al Hammadi, Taha Hussain Al Balushi, Abdul Hamid Abdallah Al Noufali, Mohammed Sulaiman Al Noufali, Hamed Abdullah Al Hasani, Aseel Amin Bait Taysir, Fahad Hassan Al Lawati, Akram Ashoor Bait Shamaiaa, Rashad Salim Al Fazari, Mohammed Salim Al Adham.

Officials: Mohammed Abdullah Al-Batrani (Team Manager), Yousufi Darwish Al Siyabi (Head Coach), Younis Darwish Al Siyabi (Assistant Coach), Shakir Munir (Goalkeeper Coach), Raed Abdul Sharif Bait Marjan (Assistant Manager), Asim Dawood Siddiq (Assistant Goalkeeper Coach).

Pakistan: Waqar Younis, Adeel Rao, Amjad Ali, Rizwan Ali, Waqas Ahmad, Junaid Rasool, Moin Shakeel (Vice Captain), Adil Lateef, Junaid Manzoor (Captain), Awais Arshad, Khairullah, Shahzaib Khan, Ahmad Nadeem, Ali Aziz, Afraz, Waqar Ali, Naveed Alam, Abdullah Babar. Officials: Kamran Ashraf (Manager, Head Coach), Mudassar Ali Khan (Coach).