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Simon Katich, Damien Martyn and Jamie Cox have all continued to hit the headlines at the Bellerive Oval but their teams have departed the venue without outright points after a thrilling finish to the Tasmania-Western Australia Pura Cup match in Hobart today. Set a victory target of 387 from a minimum seventy-one overs, the Warriors finished at 9/373 – a score which respectively left the teams an agonising fourteen runs and one wicket adrift away from claiming maximum points.After Cox had established the parameters for the exciting pursuit by declaring the Tigers’ second innings closed at 9/238 thirty minutes before lunch, Katich (152) and Martyn (90) joined to set the Western Australians firmly on course for success. Undeterred by the early departures of openers Mike Hussey (5) and Ryan Campbell (19), the two Test aspirants added 193 runs in a rollicking exhibition of strokeplay that spanned less than two hours.Promoted up the order to maintain the momentum, Brendon Julian (39) capitalised effectively on the Katich-Martyn alliance by launching himself into the production of several towering hits. But his dismissal to a fast, straight delivery from David Saker (5/98) and the earlier departure of Martyn – to a loose shot outside off stump that gave thirty-two year old debutant Mark Colegrave (1/76) his maiden first-class wicket – prompted a near-reversal of the situation. Upon Julian’s dismissal, the Warriors suffered a collapse that saw six wickets tumble for the addition of just seventy runs.After receiving a hammering, like most of his teammates, at the hands of Katich and Martyn, Saker was the man who led the Tasmanian fightback. All-rounder Scott Kremerskothen (3/64) also played his part well, a part made more difficult by both the placid nature of the pitch and the loss of key bowlers Gerard Denton and Shaun Young to injury.In a major setback for the Tigers, Denton did not even take the field during the afternoon as a legacy of experiencing pain in his back – an ailment, worryingly, that has also troubled him in seasons past. Young did manage to deliver three overs, but was belted for thirty-three runs and strained his groin in the process.Their presence might well have made the difference in the concluding stages. But Saker and Kremerskothen did not appear to need all that much assistance, removing Murray Goodwin (12) quickly, engineering the vital dismissal of Katich, and then opening the way for Andrew Dykes to make a brilliant contribution of his own by taking a superb running catch at deep cover to send Mark Walsh (13) back to the pavilion as well. Matthew Nicholson (9) and Brad Oldroyd (3) did not last long and, by the time that number eleven Gavin Swan (0*) came in, he and captain Tom Moody (22*) were faced with the task of scoring eighteen runs from fourteen balls if the Warriors were to win. Swan somehow survived three raucous lbw appeals and played and missed once and, suitably discouraged from handing his partner back the strike, Moody opted that the only prudent course available to him was the act of denying the Tasmanians victory instead.Earlier, Cox (87) fell on the so-called devil’s number for the second time in the match on the Tigers’ route to their closure. Young (48) then held the lower order together as it underwent the ordeal of surviving some accurate medium pace and spin bowling from the pairing of Moody (3/23) and Oldroyd (3/87).In the end, though, all that was left to show for the teams’ imagination and enterprise was a first innings result that fell in favour of the Tasmanians.

Scorecard and ball-by-ball details
How they were out

A resurgent Indian side made most use of a slow, turning pitch at Bangalore and levelled the five-match series at 1-1 with a hard-fought six-wicket win. South Africa, who were thwarted in their bid to stay undefeated in a record 21 successive games, refused to surrender without a scrap but their spirited effort on the field wasn’t enough to defend a modest target.Choosing to bowl first on a surface where the ball often stopped on the batsmen, India capitalised on some injudicious strokeplay by South Africa’s top order before the spinners suffocated the rest of the batsmen with guile and rip. The chase to 170 didn’t begin too auspiciously, with the openers tied down by some immaculate seam bowling, but a spirited half-century from Virender Sehwag, who batted in the middle order, ensured an emphatic finish.After being pleasantly surprised by the seamer-friendly surroundings at Hyderabad, South Africa encountered diametrically opposite conditions here. But the capitulation of the top three, all to Irfan Pathan, was largely responsible for their downfall. AB de Villiers spooned a delicious leg-stump half-volley to square leg; Graeme Smith walked right across his stumps and missed a straight one; while Jacques Kallis flashed at one that moved away after pitching short. The trio managed just nine runs between them, and the underbelly of the batting line-up were left to negotiate crafty spin on a pitch fast turning into a flaky dustbowl.Harbhajan Singh was introduced in the 14th over and the problems he caused with his zip set the tone for the rest of the innings. Ashwell Prince and Andrew Hall, included in the side for the injured Charl Langeveldt, were tied up in all sorts of tangles as every run became a struggle. South Africa soon found themselves in a Test-match situation with close-in fielders lurking and survival, not run-scoring, became imperative. Murali Kartik continued the suffocation act superbly, conceding just 16 runs in his ten overs, while Sehwag and Yuvraj Singh also extracted disconcerting bite from the wicket. Kartik was particularly impressive: summing up the situation perfectly, he hardly bowled a loose delivery, managed four maidens in his spell and was unlucky to see several deliveries comprehensively beat the groping batsmen and go past the edge.Even the characteristically aggressive Justin Kemp wasn’t allowed to free his arms as he and Shaun Pollock settled on rotating the strike and stretching the total. The duo grafted 47 painstaking runs in 16 overs but fell at a time when South Africa needed the critical boost to go from a modest total to a competitive one.

India too found the going tough in the early stages with some disciplined bowling from the faster bowlers, who didn’t allow a single run in the first 19 balls, prevented them from getting off to a flier. Pollock led the squeeze operation with an immaculate spell up front, when he induced Sachin Tendulkar into indiscretion, and India were allowed to score only 9 in the first seven overs. Pollock was rewarded for his accuracy when Tendulkar danced down the track and failed to time his loft over mid-on, but Gambhir unclasped the handcuffs.He backed himself and rode his luck and wasn’t afraid to hook and pull. He got away with a top-edged four off Andre Nel early in on and Nel, as his wont, indulged in a few bantering duels. But Gambhir took him on, crashed some superb cover-drives and unleashed a few verbal volleys himself. Along with Pathan, who was promoted to No.3, he ensured that the bowlers weren’t allowed to re-establish their stranglehold. Pathan produced a more solid innings, the highlight being the clean straight six off Nel, and there were also some sweetly struck strokes that peppered the square boundaries.Smith was forced to set some attacking fields and there was nothing he could do when Sehwag entered his crisp striking zone. He stated his intent early on with a slashed four off Johan Botha, the offspinner, and found the sweet spot of the bat on a regular basis. He continued his assault on Botha right till the finish, clattering him for five fours, and was mainly responsible for Justin Ontong being dismissed for 28 in his 2.4 overs. Sehwag helped India race to the finish line with a flurry of fours and displayed the kind of power and timing that had brought him to the limelight on this very ground, nearly four-and-a-half years ago.

AB de Villiers c Harbhajan b Pathan 4 (4 for 1)
Graeme Smith lbw b Pathan 3 (14 for 2)
Jacques Kallis c Dhoni b Pathan 2 (20 for 3)
Andrew Hall c Kaif b Harbhajan 32 (57 for 4)
Mark Boucher lbw b Sehwag 14 (85 for 5)
Ashwell Prince c Harbhajan b Sehwag 30 (96 for 6)
Justin Kemp c RP Singh b Harbhajan 28 (143 for 7)
Shaun Pollock b Yuvraj 29 (158 for 8)
Makhaya Ntini b Agarkar 1 (169 for 9)
IndiaSachin Tendulkar c sub (Peterson) b Pollock 2 (13 for 1)
Gautam Gambhir run-out (Ontong) 38 (52 for 2)
Irfan Pathan run-out (Ontong) 37 (105 for 3)
Rahul Dravid c and b Ontong 10 (155 for 3)

England’s preparations for the series against West Indies will include a masseuse for the first time – but the players have had to pay a third of the cost of having Vickki Byrne accompany them after what one newspaper described as "a tense stand off with Lord’s".Michael Vaughan asked the England & Wales Cricket Board to pay Byrne’s £15,000 bill, but the board would only stump up a third, with a sponsor picking up another third. That left the players to make up the difference."At the start of every tour the ECB provide a sum that can go towards the cost of providing a local masseur, to be sourced locally," explained an ECB spokesman. "Vickki worked for the team throughout last summer, however, and the players wanted her on board for this tour as part of the management team. While we want to give the England players the best possible support, we have had to operate within certain financial constraints during the last year and we can’t throw money at the team.”Byrne, who owns the Reading-based Body Works International, has worked with the England team for the past two years. She travelled with the side to Jamaica last week – but while the players were in business class, she was stuck back in economy.

Mark Boucher wanted Adam Gilchrist to extend his career by a year so the world’s top two Test wicketkeepers could have one final showdown on the field. Australia are hosting a three-Test series against South Africa next season before a return series in South Africa and Boucher said he was disappointed Gilchrist would not be part of it.Boucher will almost certainly reclaim the world Test wicketkeeping record from Gilchrist when he next plays a match and there will be no ongoing battle for the title as there was with Shane Warne and Muttiah Muralitharan’s bowling mark. Boucher is only 31 and therefore has plenty of time to put a significant gap between his final tally and Gilchrist’s record of 416 dismissals.”I sent him a message to say how disappointed I was to hear that he was calling it a day because the last time I saw him I told him he’d better keep his incredible career going so that we could have one last showdown at the end of the year,” Boucher told the . “It was a big shock to hear he was going. But everyone knows how important his family is to him so I’m sure he made the right call. I’ll miss him a lot.”If I think of the great innovators of my time, guys who revolutionised the game and made people see it in a different way, I’d say Jonty Rhodes and Adam Gilchrist would be top of the pile. Jonty changed the way people thought of fielding and Gilly has set the bar so high for the next generation of keeper-batsmen that it’s almost unfair.”Boucher’s captain Graeme Smith said Gilchrist would always have his respect. “The way he made an effort to contact Boucher when he broke the world record was typical of him,” Smith said. “We were in Pakistan and Australia were in India. It just wasn’t a question of dialling a local number.

ScorecardNarsingh Deonarine struck a defiant unbeaten century to earn Guyana a fighting draw against Barbados on the final day of their Carib Beer Series match at the Everest Cricket Club.Deonarine frustrated Barbados for the entire fourth day to hit an undefeated 136 as Guyana, facing a first innings deficit of 153, closed on 309 for 9 when the match was called off at 4.34 pm with 15 overs remaining. Showing fine powers of concentration, he held up Barbados for exactly eight hours, faced 366 balls and counted 14 fours on the way to his fourth first-class century which earned him the Man of the Match award. He resumed on 37, with Guyana on 105 for 2, and batted solidly for the entire day despite steadily losing partners. Deonarine reached his 50 off 136 balls with an off-drive for his sixth four and although he spent 50 minutes in the 90s, he raised his century in 20 minutes after tea from 256 balls.Deonarine was well supported by Neil McGarell in an eighth wicket stand of 72 after Barbados had put themselves in a position to win by reducing Guyana to 203 for 7 half way into the day. He stayed with Deonarine for an hour-and-half and made 48 off 60 balls with five fours and two sixes, but the match was still in Barbados’ favour when he was dismissed 38 minutes after tea.In the pre-lunch session, Guyana lost two wickets for 63 runs, Travis Dowlin was run out for 25 and Assad Fudadin was well caught low at point by Wayne Blackman. After lunch, Andre Percival, Derwin Christian and Mahendra Nagamotoo all fell cheaply before Deonarine found a useful partner in McGarrell, who was eventually run out by a direct throw from Kurt Wilkinson at mid on.At 279 for 9, Reon King joined Deonarine to put the contest out of Barbados’ reach by batting for 39 minutes after which the two captains agreed to end the match. Barbados’ bowlers, backed up by outstanding fielding, manfully stuck to the task in spite of Deonarine’s obdurate effort. Ian Bradshaw finished with 3 for 76 off 24 overs and Ryan Nurse and Antonio Thomas took two wickets each.Both teams have a brief break before playing their second match, starting on December 9, when Guyana meet Windward Islands at the Albion Community Development Centre in Berbice, while Barbados play Trinidad and Tobago at the Carlton Club, just outside Bridgetown

Scorecard

New Zealand first innings 353

Mark Richardson c Ponting b Kasprowicz 19 (1 for 26)
Edged perfect legcutter to second slip
Stephen Fleming c Warne b Kasprowicz 0 (2 for 26)
Edged straight ball to second slip
Scott Styris c Gilchrist b Kasprowicz 27 (3 for 37)
Poor foot movement and straightforward catch
Nathan Astle run out (Clarke) 19 (4 for 138)
Parried by Gillespie in gully, direct hit at non-striker’s end
Mathew Sinclair c Ponting b Gillespie 69 (5 for 138)
Caught low at second slip
Craig McMillan c Gilchrist b Warne 23 (6 for 180)
Thin edge giving bowler the charge – would have been stumped
Brendon McCullum st Gilchrist b Warne 10 (7 for 206)
Beaten by legbreak, very close for third umpire
Daniel Vettori c Warne b Kasprowicz 21 (8 for 264)
Edged slashed drive high to second slip
Kyle Mills c Hayden b Warne 29 (9 for 317)
Defensive prod well held low at first slip
Chris Martin c Ponting b Warne 0 (10 for 353)
Bat-pad high to silly point

Australia first innings

Matthew Hayden lbw b Mills 8 (1 for 16)
Trapped on back foot and hit high on pad
Justin Langer lbw b Vettori 34 (2 for 85)
Plumb in front to ball that jagged back and stayed low
Ricky Ponting c Astle b Martin 51 (3 for 109)
Well caught at square leg off hook
Darren Lehmann c McCullum b Vettori 8 (4 for 128)
Caught behind off attempted drive

1996Dropped from the Pakistan squad for the Sahara Cup against India on grounds of indiscipline and poor attitude. His international debut is thus delayed by over a year.1997Tours England with Pakistan `A’ and makes an impact on and off the field; is cited for indiscipline by the Pakistan manager in the end of tour report. Finally makes his international debut in November in the second Test against West Indies in Rawalpindi.1998February brings his first major impact; 5 for 43 in Pakistan’s first Test win in South Africa.1999The breakthrough year; starts with in Kolkata and continues through the World Cup, where he ends not only as one of the leading wicket-takers, but also its leading star. Soon after, he signs a contract to play for Nottinghamshire. He ends the year by being called for the first time in his career in Australia by umpires Peter Willey and Darrell Hair and John Reid, the match referee; a pattern for highs followed inevitably and immediately by lows is set.2000Bowling action is cleared early in the year but a rib injury forces him to miss the start of the county season. A side strain then forces him out for the rest of the season and then a shoulder injury rules him out of England’s visit to Pakistan in the winter. Knee and ankle injuries are also added to the catalogue before the year is out.2001Returns in March for his first international outing in ten months against New Zealand. Five wickets suggests he is back but breaks down with a hamstring injury nine balls into the next game…and is called again by umpires Steve Dunne and Doug Cowie. A report from the University of Western Australia concludes his action is the result of “unique physical characteristics.” Pakistani officials say the report `clears him’. Misses much of England summer tour due to injury and poor health and is called again in November in Sharjah. Again, he is `cleared’ by the University in December.2002Hit by a brick from the Dhaka crowd in January, forcing him to miss end of tour. Recovers to destroy New Zealand twice at home, in the process bowling the first-ever 100 mph delivery. Blitzes Australia twice later in the year but is banned for an ODI after throwing a bottle into the crowds in Zimbabwe. Caught ball tampering in first Test, though he escapes punishment. A knee injury rules him out of the Test series against South Africa.2003Axed from Pakistan team after a poor World Cup and told by PCB chief Tauqir Zia to clean up his act or be removed from team forever. Recalled in May for a triangular in Sri Lanka and promptly becomes the second player ever to be banned for ball tampering. Appointed vice-captain for Test against South Africa and is served up a lawsuit by a Pakistani citizen for attending a fashion show on a night of religious significance. Banned for one Test and two ODIs for abusing Paul Adams in the first Test. Misses Test in New Zealand with calf and groin injuries but is photographed one day before enjoying a jet-ski ride, much to his management’s chagrin. Typically, returns for second Test, helps Pakistan win with a stupendous seven-wicket burst (11 in the match) and gets injured again in the ODI series.2004A disappointing series against India ends with a back injury in the final Test. Unable to bowl for the rest of the match, he comes out to bat later, freely smacking boundaries in a 14-ball 28. Inzamam publicly questions the authenticity of the injury. Amid disquiet over his commitment and attitude, Shoaib is called before a medical inquiry which eventually finds his injury to be a genuine one. Returns to the squad where on the tour to Australia at the year’s end his true Jekyll and Hyde nature comes out. He fights a lone battle against Australian batsmen in the first two Tests, but in the process is disciplined by match referees (for sending Matthew Hayden on his way) and injures his shoulder at Perth. By the time of the last Test in Sydney, looks physically spent and rumours of disciplinary breaches and problems with the team management emerge.2005Starts the year with a hamstring injury and misses most of the VB Series. Hamstring keeps him out of the India tour and fitness problems preclude his inclusion for the tour to the Carribean. On the bright side, he is offered a Bollywood role. Relationship with both Inzamam and Bob Woolmer erodes steadily and his stock is at its lowest ebb when he is verbally maligned by Worcestershire chairman John Elliott for being a disruptive influence. Comes back for the series against England after proving his fitness in a training camp, finishes with 17 wickets, and silences any number of critics with a rehabilitated performance. Ankle injury surfaces in the last Test at Lahore.

2006Questions are raised about his action again, this time, by Greg Chappell after the Faisalabad Test against India. Ankle injury becomes a stress fracture and rules him out of the ODI series. All the while rumours fly about ICC concern over his action although no official action is taken or statement made. Injury forces him to miss the Sri Lanka tour and doctors discover soon after a degenerative knee condition which threatens to end his career. Is due to undergo surgery, the results of which will determine whether or not he can continue playing but speculation about whether it is his action or his injury which have forced him out intensifies.2006Banned for two years after testing positive for the banned substance Nandrolone, Shoaib was sent back to Pakistan and missed the Champions Trophy. The verdict, however, was overturned by a three-man tribunal a month later.2007Things look bright for the bowler as he is named in a 30-man squad for the World Cup. After not initially being picked for fitness reasons, the selectors have a change of heart and recall him. He makes a successful return against South Africa in the second Test, taking four wickets in the first innings. But a hamstring injury forces him to miss not only the second innings, but also the rest of the tour. A televised spat with Bob Woolmer results in Shoaib being fined by the board. Later, after much deliberation, Shoaib is declared unfit to take part in the World Cup due to injury at the very last minute. Speculation has it that his exclusion was from fear of being dope-tested by the ICC, and that traces of Nandrolone were still present in his body.2007A fit-again Shoaib is named in the Asia XI squad to take on an Africa XI but is withdrawn by the Pakistan board after declaring himself unavailable for Pakistan’s tour of Abu Dhabi. Shoaib is included in the squad for Scotland and later named in the team for the inaugural ICC World Twenty20. He leaves a training camp in Karachi without permission and is fined at a disciplinary hearing. On appeal, a second hearing suspends the fine and charges and puts Shoaib on a six-week probationary period. A dressing-room spat with Mohammad Asif in South Africa results in Shoaib being sent back home prior to the event.Shoaib is consequently handed a 13-match ban and a fine of approximately US$57,000 for a number of breaches of discipline. He is also placed on a two-year probationary period during which any disciplinary breaches could result in a life ban.2008The board’s announcement of new central contracts in January sees Shoaib demoted from the top category to a retainership. He is handed a five-year ban, preventing him from playing for and in Pakistan, after accusing the board of double standards over awarding of the contracts. His troubles continued when a three-man appellate tribunal, in their interim ruling, rejected his appeal against the ban. To add to his agony, the Indian Premier League maintained their position of not allowing him to take part in the tournament. He pushed for a suspension of the ban and earned a reprieve when the Appellate Tribunal decided to suspend his five-year ban for one month till reconvening on June 4. It made him eligible to represent Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL.

ScorecardShannan Stewart and Michael Papps guided Canterbury to a thumping nine-wicket win against Wellington in their Twenty20 match at Christchurch. Both made 66 – although Stewart’s was unbeaten – as Canterbury chased down the required 170 with a minimum of fuss.Neal Parlane piloted Wellington with 63, sharing a second-wicket stand of 71 with Chris Nevin. Stu Mills took charge after Parlane was dismissed in the 17th over, as his unbeaten 37 lifted them to 169. Stewart and Papps made easy work of the target with an opening stand of 136. Captain Chris Harris and Stewart guided the team home with two overs to spare.
ScorecardNathan McCullum’s allround performance steered Otago to a 14-run win over Auckland in their Twenty20 match at Eden Park. McCullum’s late-innings 20 lifted Otago to a competitive 181, but his contribution in the field was more crucial, picking up two wickets and affecting three run-outs.Richard Jones, the Auckland captain, was the only batsman to carry on after getting a start, but the steady fall of wickets increased the pressure and consequently the asking rate. Two early run-outs, courtesy of McCullum, reduced Auckland to 42 for 4. Jones and Dave Houpapa led the recovery adding a quick 55 in just over five overs. However, the rate slackened after Houpapa was dismissed. Mayo Pasupathi made a breezy 28 off 14 balls but both him and Jones were dismissed in the final over to McCullum. Jones top-scored with 75 off 57 balls with eight fours and a six.Earlier, Otago were boosted by contributions by Chris Gaffaney and and Gareth Hopkins, who made 43 and 47 respectively. Opener Gaffaney got the team off to a good start, and once he was dismissed, Hopkins and Greg Todd added 56 for the fourth wicket to lay the platform for a good score.

Twin bomb blasts in Lahore on Thursday posed no threat to Australia A’s on-going tour, according to a senior Pakistan cricket official. “We have met Australia officials and assured them of a safe tour,” the board’s general manager, Zakir Khan, told .The two explosions killed six people and injured more than 30 others. Australia A, who earlier lost the two-match series 1-0, were due to play the first of three one-day matches in Lahore on Friday and the remaining two on September 25 and 27.”We have shifted Friday’s match from Bagh-e-Jinnah to Gaddafi Stadium because of rain and it has nothing to do with security,” said Khan. Australia A’s manager Bernard Robertson agreed the tour would continue. “Cricket will go on and we have a match on Friday,” Robertson told . “I don’t have any further comment to make.”Pakistan host England for three Tests and five ODIs from October 26 and the ECB has already refused to play a Test in the port city of Karachi. The ECB has said it would monitor security in Pakistan before the tour begins.

Sri Lanka are hoping to give their former skipper, Sanath Jayasuriya, a grand farewell by winning the second and final Test against Pakistan, which starts at Kandy on Monday. Jayasuriya, 36, Sri Lanka’s highest run-scorer in both Test cricket and one-day internationals, announced his retirement from Tests on Friday.Trevor Penney, Sri Lanka’s assistant coach, said: “We haven’t beaten Pakistan for 20 years at home. It is going to be the last Test for Sanath and he deserves a grand send-off for what he has been for cricket.”Penney, who took charge after Tom Moody, the senior coach, flew to England to attend the funeral of his father-in-law, said the team would miss Jayasuriya, who will continue to play one-dayers. “We won’t be doing anything drastically different but just stick to the basics and try to come up with a good show.”Jayasuriya, meanwhile, has confirmed that he will retire from all cricket following the World Cup. “Not playing test cricket will help me keep fit and allow me to play on until next year’s World Cup. I will definitely retire from all cricket after that tournament.”The opening Test ended in a draw in Colombo after Sri Lanka set an improbable 458-run target for Pakistan, who played out over four sessions to save the match. The home side will not be risking Chaminda Vaas, who is recovering from a side strain and have named an unchanged squad.Penney added: “He has sort of recovered but we don’t want to risk him in a match situation. The idea is to give him plenty of rest and recovery period and have him fit for the upcoming England tour.”Nuwan Kulasekara, the young seamer, is expected to come in for Dilhara Fernando, who failed to take a wicket in the first match. Sri Lanka were also likely to field the uncapped left-arm spinner, Sajeeva Weerakoon, in place of Malinga Bandara.For Pakistan Mohammad Yousuf, who missed the first Test with a hamstring injury, has recovered although Abdul Razzaq is battling to be fit after suffering a knee injury. Pakistan have a selection dilemma as they will have to leave out Faisal Iqbal, who put up a match-saving partnership with Shoaib Malik in the first Test.Inzamam-ul-Haq said: “I was impressed with the way the youngsters performed. I am always happy when there is a problem in selection because it means there is competition.”Sri Lanka (from) Mahela Jayawardene (capt), Kumar Sangakkara (wk), Sanath Jayasuriya, Upul Tharanga, Michael Vandort, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Thilan Samaraweera, Chamara Kapugedera, Farveez Maharoof, Lasith Malinga, Nuwan Kulasekara, Dilhara Fernando, Muttiah Muralitharan, Malinga Bandara, Sajeewa Weerakoon.Pakistan (from) Inzamam-ul-Haq (capt), Younis Khan, Mohammad Yousuf, Abdul Razzaq, Shahid Afridi, Shoaib Malik, Kamran Akmal (wk), Salman Butt, Danish Kaneria, Rao Iftikhar, Imran Farhat, Faisal Iqbal, Umar Gul, Mohammad Asif, Arshad Khan.