Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq believes Australia will be a much weaker team when Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath retire next year.
The all-rounder is expected to lead Pakistan in the fourth ODI against the West Indies in the absence of Inzamam-ul-Haq, Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousuf.
Misbah-ul-Haq has stressed on the need for Pakistan and India to revive their bilateral cricket ties .
Inzamam has been advised to rest for three days after he required three stitches to a finger injured while fielding in the third one-day international on Sunday while Yousuf's wife is ill.
Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Nasim Ashraf said Inzamam-ul Haq's tenure as captain will come up for review after the home series against the West Indies.
The 16-man squad includes batsmen Mark Stoneman and Dawid Malan and fast bowler Jake Ball, who have 11 Test caps between them, as well as three uncapped players in paceman Craig Overton, spinner Mason Crane and wicketkeeper Ben Foakes.
Shoaib Akhtar will play in the second ODI against India after being rested for the first under the rotation policy
Inzamam-ul Haq slammed the Indian team for appealing against him for obstructing the field in the first ODI
The state run Pakistan Television reported that Musharraf spoke to Inzamamam, coach Bob Woolmer and the team manager Salim Altaf and congratulated the team.
He, however, did not agree that such a dead wicket was prepared mainly because the home team was under pressure.\n\n
The team's training camp will be organised from January 7 for the upcoming home series against India.
The ICC will review the experimental supersub rule in February in 2006
Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul Haq fears the format of the 2006 Champions Trophy will widen the gap between the cellar teams and the rest.
As lobbying and counter-lobbying intensify, right now, it looks like a T20 match, discovers Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Cheteshwar Pujara and Karun Nair created records albeit of different kinds.
Pakistan skipper Inzamam-ul Haq said the defeat in Rawalpindi had not dampened the spirit of his team.
The team management felt he should be fresh before the long series against England begins.
ICC Match Referee Chris Broad said the Pakistan captain's position of responsibility in the team was a major factor in deciding his punishment.
The Pakistan cricket team management gave umpires Rudi Koertzen and Darrell Hair negative ratings.
Pakistan beat England by seven wickets in the second ODI.
Michael Vaughan and the England team need to reproduce the form displayed during the Ashes to beat Pakistan in the final Test.
Some Pakistan players have reportedly asked the PCB to omit fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar from the squad for the India tour.
Arthur described coaching the Pakistan team as a fulfilling period of his career.
The Pakistan vice-captain will miss the opening ODI against India in Kochi on April 2, due to fever.
The visitors were 165 for 5 at close on day 1 of the three-day match against the BCCI President's XI.
Nepal became the latest nation to join the One-day International (ODI) club, securing their 50-overs status for the first time at the ongoing ICC World Cup Qualifiers in Zimbabwe.
The Pakistan captain says that new coach Bob Woolmer has the credentials to mould his talented but erratic side into a consistent winning outfit.
Skipper Inzamam-ul Haq said Shahid Afridi and Yasir Hameed would contest for a spot in the top order.
The start of play was delayed by roughly an hour due to bad light.
PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan assured the Pakistan captain that he will captain the team on the upcoming tour.
Inzamam-ul Haq, Yousuf Youhana and Shoaib Akhtar were upset by claims that the fourth ODI against India was fixed.
Rajneesh Gupta highlights all the important numbers of the Pakistan team from cricket World Cups.
'One of the boys who was caught in match-fixing comes from a village near Rawalpindi, where he lived in very basic conditions. Suddenly this boy becomes rich, he has two houses in Lahore, he is a glamour boy, he comes on television and the gap between rags to riches has been achieved. So he is a product of this environment; the environment of corruption!...I made sure Danish Kaneria stayed a Hindu. There was pressure from Inzamam; there is no doubt about it, but we are very proud of a Hindu playing for Pakistan!' Shaharyar Khan, former chairman of Pakistan's cricket board, in an exclusive and frank interview with Rediff.com's Manu Shankar.
Chairman Shaharyar Khan said the PCB has confidence in Inzamam's leadership skills and he would continue in the post for the rest of the year.
Pakistan skipper Inzamam-ul Haq has been given the vote of confidence by the PCB.
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