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This year the campaign will feature 12 regional teams of youngsters of age ranging from 12 to 16, made up through extensive advertisement through GEO News, a leading news channel in Pakistan, who will fight for top honours in the "Mobilink Hunt for Heroes Tournament 2008".
According to the format of the scheme, open trials will be held simultaneously in all the 4 provinces at one time, spread over ten days; two day trials followed by five days of coaching of the short listed players.
The short listed players would then be given a chance to play three one-day matches to prove their talent and get selected in the final fifteen of each of their respective regions, to be selected by regional selection committee.
The selected cricketers will then be nurtured, under the watchful eyes of seasoned coaches and mentors, at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Lahore
The exercise is expected to draw thousands of prospective cricketers, who after proper coaching will be nurtured to become the future cricket heroes of Pakistan, emulating the feats of several Pakistani greats including Zaheer Abbas, Imran Khan, Javed Miandad, or Wasim Akram.
This program was started in year 2007 and achieved remarkable success. As a result of the campaign several young cricketers were selected, and many of them are playing for the junior string of Pakistan.
Posted October 19th, 2008 by Mughal
