Vital Five squad leaves for Kuala Lumpur today

KARACHI: The Vital Five Cricket Club (VFCC) squad will be flying out to Kuala Lumpur in the wee hours of Friday (today) to compete in the inaugural KL Titan’s Cup T20 Champions Trophy Cricket Tournament 2017.

The 16-member team is accompanied by five officials. Left-arm spinner Faheem Ahmed will be captaining VFCC. Opener Hassan Mahmood will be his deputy. Saad Alam and Ali Imran are the other openers in the squad. Rameez Raja and Akbar Babar are the specialist middle-order batsmen.

Shaharyar Ali Rizvi has been selected as the wicketkeeper batsman, while Yasir Hussain, Ansar Mushtaq and Khurram Shahzad are all-rounders. Waqar Anwar, Hamza Ansari, Ammar Khan and Huzaifi Hussain Alvi are the medium-pacers. Arsalan Hussain and Shaharyar Tanvir are the lead spinners.

Javed Raza Naqvi will be the chef de mission. Waqar Hussain will be the manager. Jalaluddin, Anwar-ul-Haq and Haris Khan will be the head coach, the batting coach and the bowling coach, respectively.

The 12 participating teams in the KL Titan’s Cup T20 Champions Trophy Cricket Tournament have been divided in two groups for the preliminary rounds.VFCC are in the Group B alongwith FRCC, Haji Baba CC, Pak Flag CC, TSCC and Eleven Star CC.

The Group A comprises Active CC, Islamabad Green CC, Moin Khan Academy, Spartans CC and Xchanging Warriors.At the end of the league matches, the top four teams from both the groups will qualify for the quarter-finals.