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MUMBAI - India will gamble on the fitness of Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir and Praveen Kumar after the four injured players were included in the final 15-member squad on Monday for next month's World Cup.
Regular openers Sehwag and Gambhir and paceman Kumar missed the current five-match one-day international series against South Africa through injury while Tendulkar hurt his hamstring in Saturday's second match and returned home. "Injuries are part of

LAHORE - The PCB's Board of Governors met here at the Gaddafi Stadium on Thursday and discussed in detail the selection of Kamran Akmal and Shoaib Malik in the national team for the World Cup 2011.
The final decision on the selection of players would be taken after the December 29 and 30 meeting of the PCB's integrity committee which will be followed by the selection committee meeting.
It has been learnt that the BOG members were informed that the players' assets were

COURCHEVEL: Marlies Schild of Austria produced a storming second leg run to win the women's World Cup slalom race here on Tuesday. In second place after the first run, 00.11 seconds behind Tanja Poutiainen, Schild went for broke and her gamble paid off as she finished 00.78 seconds overall ahead of the veteran Finn. It was the 29-year-old's second World Cup win of the season following her slalom victory at Levy, Finland in November.
It was also the 25th World Cup win of her

LAHORE: Former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram feels the national side's preparations
for the 2011 World Cup are not on the right track and it is high time the selectors picked the preliminary squad to give enough time to the players to gel as a unit.
Akram's statement echoed the views of Shahid Afridi and Waqar Younis who have stated that Pakistan needs to step up its preparations for the World Cup starting February 19.
"It is good they (Afridi and Younis) have spoken

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board has put on hold the announcement of the team because of the delay in clearance of the two players from the International Cricket Council. The PCB has asked the ICC to clear Shoaib Malik and Kamran Akmal for selection in the New Zealand ODI series and the World Cup but till late, no reply was received and the board officials are further discussing the list.
An official of the board said: "A meeting of the selection committee was held on

LAHORE: Pakistan chief selector Mohsin Khan said Monday that the selection committee was not under anybody's influence and was working independently. He said that the player were selected on merit and those dropped had disciplinary or fitness issues.
Former captains Mohammad Yousuf and Shoaib Malik along with wicket-keeper Kamran Akmal and leg-spinner Danish Kaneria were not included for the New Zealand tour. "Things are being blown out of proportion as the selection committee

KARACHI: Pakistan's one-day captain Shahid Afridi said Friday he was not fully satisfied with preparations for next year's World Cup, acknowledging low expectations of victory.
Afridi expressed reservations in the light of problems that have dogged Pakistan's recent tours with players disciplined and dragged into damaging spot-fixing allegations. "I am not 100 percent satisfied with the team's preparations for the World Cup," Afridi told reporters at a local function.