Malik, Afridi to lead charity match teams at Gujrat

LAHORE - Pakistan’s top national players will be seen in action in a T20 Exhibition-cim-charity match at Zahoor Elahi Stadium Gujrat on May 4. The match will roll into action at 2 pm and the team will be led by Pakistan’s former captains Shoaib Malik and Shahid Afridi Malik will lead Pakistan Blues comprising Imran Nazir, Rana Naveed, Abdul Razzaq, Shoaib Akhtar, Abdur Rehman, Shahid Yousuf, Naved Latif, Shakeel Anjum.
Afridi will lead the Pakistan Greens team having Aizaz Cheema, Kamran Akmal, Umer Akmal, Adnan Akmal, Azhar Ali, Rao Iftikhar, Taufeeq Umer, Imran Farhat, Saeed Ajmal and Sohail Tanveer.
Talking to this scribe, the organizer of the match, Rana Naved said that the purpose of holding it is to raise money for the school and and cricket academy he has plaed to establish at Sheikhupura. “We would not only educate the children over there but also train them at the academy,” he maintained.
He further stated that all the cricketers have confirmed their participation and the city district government is collaborating with them in the holding o the match. “Afridi is out of Pakistan for personal reasons and he told me that he will be back on May 3 and join the other players the following day at Gujrat. “The city-district government is providing around 400 security officials including lady police and special arrangements are being made for the players welcome in the city.” He further said that he plan to hold similar matches at Faisalabad and Sialkot and would ask other cricketers to arrange such matches to raise money for education and training young cricketers, he added.