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Pakistan to play West Indies in Toronto

Pakistan will play the West Indies in a three-match limited-overs series in Toronto next month, officials announced today.

The matches, on September 16, 18 and 19, were organised after India withdrew from the annual Sahara Cup five-match series with Pakistan because of the two-month Indo-Pakistan conflict in the Kargil sector which ended in July.

Mujeeb-Ur-Rehamn, chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board's ad-hoc committee, said 22 probables will be invited to a training camp between September 1 and 10 at Lahore. ''But the three suspected players will not be invited,'' he added.

The committee suspended captain Wasim Akram, Ijaz Ahmed and Salim Malik on the basis of a ten-month-old report prepared by the suspended cricket board's probe committee into allegations of betting and match-fixing.

Wicketkeeper-batsman Moin Khan, Akram's deputy at the World Cup in England last May and June, is being widely tipped as the new captain, to be named in the first week of September.

''The captain will be announced before the team so that his views can be sought while selecting the team,'' Rehman said from Islamabad.

UNI