Pakistan rues cricket loss
NZPA Melbourne The Pakistan cricketers won't wait to see the Benson and Hedges Cup finals in Melbourne at the week-end. and will leave for home todav.
The Pakistan team was waiting and practising in Melbourne this week, confident it would be battling with the leaders, the West Indies, for the $50,000 prizemonev in the finals series.
But Australia scraped in. ahead of Pakistan, after an amazing win over the West Indies on Tuesday night at the Sydney Cricket Ground, when a run rate count-back decided the clash when rain curtailed play. Pakistan's manager. Mr Ijaz Butt, said from Melbourne: "The team watched the game in our Melbourne hotel on television and it was frustrating to see our chances slip away on a chance shower of rain when Australia were apparently just ahead on a run rate.
“But these rules were decided on before the series started and we can only accept the situation." Australia’s dramatic entry into the finals has started a dollar surge for the Australian Cricket Board.
Interest has suddenly been revived and fans yesterday started a rush on booking centres.
With a promise of Melbourne’s present warm spell extending to the week-end, the two finals matches in Melbourne are expected to again draw huge crowds.
Australia has left unchanged its squad for the two finals matches.
The 13-man squad is: Gregg Chappell (captain), Kim Hughes (vice captain), Allan Border, Rick Darling, John Dyson, Bruce Laird, Geoff Lawson, Dennis Lillee, Mick Malone, Rod Marsh, Len Pascoe, Jeff Thomson, Graeme Wood.
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