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Pakistan players return minus Akram

Karachi, Feb 5: The Pakistan cricket team returned on Saturday evening after completing their worst-ever tour of Australia

06-Feb-2000
Karachi, Feb 5: The Pakistan cricket team returned on Saturday evening after completing their worst-ever tour of Australia. Pakistan lost all the three Tests in the first leg of the tour. In the tri-nation series, Pakistan were beaten in six out of 10 games.
Their only consolation was three victories against arch-rivals India who failed to qualify for the best-of-the-three finals. Skipper Wasim Akram stayed back in Australia, team officials said. They added that he was expected on Sunday.
The team landed in Lahore from where the players dispersed for their respective cities.
The players, who returned, are: Moin Khan (vice-captain), Wajahatullah Wasti, Saeed Anwar, Shahid Afridi, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Ijaz Ahmad, Yousuf Youhana, Mohammad Wasim, Waqar Younis, Shoaib Akhtar, Abdur Razzaq, Azhar Mahmood, Saqlain Mushtaq and Shoaib Malik.
Intikhab Alam was the coach and Brig (retd) Khawaja Mohammad Nasir was the manager.