Travel arrangements of Pakistan players

Three Pakistan players will return home on Thursday morning after completing a 17-day tour of England.

Younis Khan will board PK-788 that arrives in Karachi at 0445 hours whereas Shoaib Malik and Umar Gul will arrive in Lahore by PK-758 that lands 0740 hours on Thursday.

Umar Gul will take a connecting flight to Peshawar the same day.

Shabbir Ahmed and Yousuf Youhana will return on July 4.

Mohammad Sami and Shoaib Akhtar left Monday to join Kent and Durham respectively while Abdul Razzaq and Azhar Mahmood rejoined Middlesex and Surrey. The rest of the players will return home in the last week of July.

"The boys wanted vacations after a tough schedule and they have been granted permission. But they have been released on the condition that they will make themselves available in Pakistan for the training camp that will be organized to prepare the team for the forthcoming domestic international season," team manager Haroon Rashid said in a statement.

The date and the venue of the training camp will be finalized later.

Samiul Hasan
Media Manager - Pakistan Cricket Team
23 June 2003