Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU/SRINAGAR, June 4: Over 2000 cricketers turned up for the selection trials of forthcoming J&K Corporate Premier League at various venues in Srinagar yesterday and at MA Stadium in Jammu today.
According to the organizers, around 1400 cricketers drawn from various districts of Kashmir province gathered to sweat-it-out with a hope to get the selectors nod, while over 500 boys drawn from various districts of Jammu province, vying for the final selection attended the trials in Jammu.
Out of this huge number of cricketers, 150 boys from both Jammu and Kashmir province, apart from the current Ranji trophy, Under-25, Under-19 or Under-16 players, have been selected for the final bid to be conducted well before the start of this sporting extravaganza.
The cricketers selected from Jammu division by the selectors included Ashwani Gupta and Vijay Sharma, senior Ranji trophy players of repute, alongwith joint secretary Rajesh Dhar included Pardeep Bali, Rakesh Koul, Shafqat Baba, Inderjeet Singh, Vivek Singh, Vimarsh Kaw, Shashi Kumar, Raman Thaploo, Sameer Malik, Anshuman Sharma, Pankaj Sasun, Amit Billowria, Sahil Bhalwal, Vijay Kumar Dogra, Abid Mushtaq, Gaurav Khajuria, Parveen Singh, Sahil Gupta, Radhey Shyam, Yudhamanyu Singh, Mohit Gupta, Sandeep Singh, Jasvinder Singh, Gurdeep Singh, Dilbagh Singh, Ajay Sharma, Kuldeep Kumar, Satish Kumar, Amandeep Singh, Rahul Mussa, Bansi Lal, Nirbya Bhadyal, Rompy Sharma, Khalid Akhter, Naushad Ali, Varun Choudhary, Prashant Kumar, Ravi Kumar, Amrit Pal Singh, Sourab Chopra, Imran Fazli, Deepak Dogra, Tauqir Malik, Chetan Singh Chib, Sanjay Manhas, Anshuman Singh, Mayank Gautam, Shiv Dutt Sharma, Sagar Gupta, Surya Mahotra, Nitin Mehra, Vikrant Tharmatt, Sunny Gill, Saqib Majeed, Vishwajeet Singh, Vijay Singh Chib, Mosin Mohd, Sidhant Singh Bagal, Farooq Ahmed, Nipun Verma, Kamal Kishore, Akash Choudhary, Dalbir Singh, Hrithik Gupta, Ahmer Akhter, Aditya, Rahul Sagotra, Ripudaman Singh, Anchal Singh, Kartik Gujral, Tayab Farooq, Ranjeet Singh Lalotra and Subrat Sharma.
While those selected from Kashmir province included under the supervision of Farooq Amin, CEO and Abdul Qyoom Bagow, organizing secretary included Showkat Ali, Obaid lone, Sajad sofi, Hamid, Haris, Hashim, Omar Alam, Sajad Mir, Sarwan Singh, Musaib, Suhail, Asim, Imraj Thakur, Parminder Singh, Rouf Bisati, Ajaz (Murali), Javid Kachroo, Showkat Kota, Omer, Wasim Raza, Firdous Ahmad, Sameer (Bell), Sajad Dar, Sajad Nabi, Sajad, Omer, Wajahat, Majid, Aamir Khan, Imtiyaz Ahamad Malla, Muzaffar, Rafiq, Arshid Ahmad, Tahir Bhat, Waseem Raja, Shahid, Irfan Dar, Adil Showkat, Aslam Bhat, Nikhil Chopra, Mujtaba Rizvi, Atif Nabi, Feroz Ahmad, Mudassir Gani, Danish Ahmad, Irfan Bahadur, Ashiq Aziz, Umer, Zubair Jeelani, Umer, Adil Mushtaq, Kumail Hussain, Ehsan Ali, Ilham Muzaffar, Imran Rasool Dar, Mohammad Ashraf Bhat, Dr Sajad Ahmad Mir, Wasim Andrabi, Naseer Bhat, Suhail Mir, Mudassir Sheikh, Kamran Khan, Mehraj Malik, Amir Malik, Altaf Molvi, Manzoor, Mohammad Wasim, Jehangir, Yawar Abbas, Asif Ali, Amir Farooq, Faisal Dar, Usman Maqsood Pandit, Tahir Hussain and Shabaz Ali (all from District Srinagar and Budgam), Naseer Want, Sartaj Sofi, Hanan Gowhar, Imran Bazaz, Suhail Bashir, Khalid Khan, Arshid Khwaja, Jalil Bhat, Ishfaq Ahahad, Nadeem Farooq, Safdar Ali, Mudassir Nazar, Ulfat Ahamad, Rayees Yaqoob, Mehraj Sheikh, Mir Imran, Asif Manzoor, Tazeem Younis, Fada Fayaz, Noor Mohammad, Arshid Hassan, Mubashir, Manzoor Nath, Irfan Yousuf, Ameek Khan, Mansoor Mir, Hilal Zargar, Zubair Malik, Peer Nadeem, Mohamad Amin, Adnan Nazir, Jahid Nazir, Abrar Farooq, Waqar Ahamad, Zahid Nisar, Adil Qadir, Tariq Ahamad, Altaf Hussain, Gulzar Ahmad, Tariq Ahmad, Imran Zargar, Faisal, Rasiq Manzoor, Sajad Allaie, Bilal Sofi, Mohsin Mufti, Manzoor Mir and Samir Ahmad (all from the districts Anantnag, Kulgam, Pulwama and Shopian), Sayim Mustafa, Ishtiyaq Ahmad, Syed Mudasir, Shahid Baba, Umar Mumtaz, Obaid Amin, Khursheed Ahmad, Miraj ud din Sofi, Saif Ud Din, Owais Ahmad, Tasaduq, Nisar Ahamad, Ajaz Ahamad Sheikh, Ajaz Ahmad Hajam and Mohammad Umar, Abid Salam, Irfan Ahamad Kaloo, Firdous Ahamad Bhat, Irfan Amin, Mohammad Yousuf Gabroo, Omar Kakroo, Wasim Ahmad Changal, Omer Majid Lone, Omar Majid, Mateen Ahmad Teli, Mohamad Imran Dar, Shafiq Amin Bhat, Muntazim Bashir, Altaf Ahmad Channa, Ajaz Ahmad Dhobi, Aqib Manzoor, Zubair Bashir, Sajad Ali, Muzaffar Sheikh, Owais Syed, Aafaq Manzoor, Shoaib Mumtaz, Muzaffar, Shahid Ali and Susheel Kumar (all from Baramulla and Kupwara).
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