Injury worries for Pakistan team

Georgetown : The Pakistan touring team has been hit by fresh injury worries. Reports are that Inzamam-ul-Haq is taking pain-killing injections because of a bone growth in his right heel and will have an operation after the West Indies tour is completed.

Depending when he has the operation, this will put him out of either the Asia Cup at the end of May, or the following tour of Sri Lanka.

Saeed Anwar, meanwhile, is still in Pakistan, having not fully recovered from a knee injury.

His departure for the West Indies had been put on hold indefinitely and he will miss at least the first Test beginning on May 5.

Vice-captain Inzamam was the Man-Of-The-Series in the One-Day triangular tournament with 295 runs at an average of 59 per innings.

He is a key man in the line-up with 4 072 runs (average: 44.74) in 61 matches with nine centuries and a best of 200 not out.

Meanwhile the fit players in the camp had a lift yesterday, with a blistering unbeaten century by Younis Khan and a five-wicket haul by pacer Mohammad Akram to put them in command against the West Indies Under-23s with a day to go at the Uitvlugt Community Centre.

At the close, the young West Indians, set a daunting 329 runs for victory by Pakistan, were 12 for the loss of captain Daren Ganga, who was leg before wicket to Akram for four.

Younis blasted five sixes and nine fours in his attacking knock of 103 as Pakistan declared their second innings at 172 for four after Akram, with five for 16, had routed the young West Indies for a modest 143 in response to the visitors' first innings total of 299.