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Younus undecided about joining team for Australia tour


Karachi: Senior Pakistan batsman Younus Khan, who pulled out of the Test tour to New Zealand, still remains undecided about joining the team for the full tour of Australia from December.

Younus admitted at a launch ceremony held at Headingly on Tuesday for the Pakistan and Australia series next year in England that he had still not decided about going to Australia.

"I don't know whether I will be able to join the team in time for the series in Australia. I have not decided as yet.

Right now I am just resting and recouping and will start playing some domestic cricket soon," Younus said.

Younus pulled out of the Test tour to New Zealand after the national team lost the one-day series to New Zealand under his captaincy in Abu Dhabi earlier this month.

Due to his decision to take a break from international cricket, the board was forced to appoint Muhammad Yousuf as captain for the New Zealand Test tour.

The Pakistan team has already reached New Zealand and plays the first Test in Dunedin from November 24.

The team is scheduled to fly straight from New Zealand to Australia where Pakistan will play the Boxing day Test match and if Younus decides to comeback he will be joining the team in Melbourne.

Fit-again Clarke returns to Aussie squad for WI series


Melbourne: A fit-again Michael Clarke today returned to Australia's 12-member squad as its vice-captain for the first cricket Test against the West Indies starting November 26 in Brisbane.

Clarke was nursing a back injury which had kept him out of the one-day series against India.

Australia, battling through a massive injury crisis, won the seven-match series 4-2 earlier this month.

Except for Doug Bollinger replacing Stuart Clark, Australian selectors have not made any changes to the squad which lost the Ashes to England a few months ago.

Regular wicketkeeper Brad Haddin has recovered from his finger injury that he picked up during the Ashes to make the cut for the series opener against the Caribbeans.

"The squad includes only one change from the side which played the last Test of the Ashes series in England. Doug Bollinger comes in forStuart Clark," Australia's National Selection Panel (NSP) Chairman Andrew Hilditch said.


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