Pakistan World Cup team likely on Sunday (2 April 1999)

2 April 1999

Pakistan World Cup team likely on Sunday

Our Sports Reporter

KARACHI, April 1: Pakistan's 15-man World Cup squad would be announced on Sunday, officials said.

Chairman of selectors Wasim Bari maintained on Thursday that his committee had been assigned the task of submitting the team by March 31. "We have successfully met that deadline.

"However, the cricket board says that it would announce the team on Sunday, the day Indian team is announced during the tri-nation series final at Bangalore," Bari told Dawn.

According to the World Cup organizing committee rules, April 3 is the deadline for submitting final squad. However, Pakistan along with India have managed to take an extension by a day.

Bari, while refusing to discuss the team, said it was still upto the PCB executive council to approve the side. "I don't know whether they would approve the entire squad or would make any changes."

It is gathered that no top official of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is in the country. Chairman Khalid Mahmood is touring with the cricket team while Majid Khan on Thursday left for India as manager of a Lahore-based Zaman club. The decision to withhold the team was taken by the secretary of the board.

Bari admitted that the delay in the announcement of the team might cause some confusion but stressed that it was the job of the cricket board think tank. "My committee has done its work and from now the cricket board comes into picture."

Source :: Dawn (https://dawn.com/)