LAHORE: Pakistan cricket left for Sri Lanka on Saturday to play Test and one day series against Sri Lanka.Talking to media at Lahore International Airport, cricket team coach Intikhab Alam said batsmen should perform well to get better results. Fitness of players will play key role in the series, as the weather in Sri Lanka will be hot which makes playing conditions difficult.Replying to question about Shoaib Akhter, Intikhab said Shoaib should focus on his fitness if he wants to join national team.Wicketkeeper batsman Kamran Akmal at this occasion said cricket fans would get quality cricket because both teams have world-class players. Abdul Razzaq termed Pakistan as favorite for the series and vowed that he will contribute for team.Nine players left for Sri Lanka today. Captain Younis Khan, Umer Gul, Fawwad Alam, Khurram Manzoor, Faisal Iqbal will leave from Karachi whereas Danesh Kaneria will join the team from London.Pakistan team will play three Test matches, five one-days and one Twenty20 match during the tour.
BAGHDAD: Nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives started shifting to southern Afghanistan."We are probably going to be the beginning of the influx you are going to see to Afghanistan," Lt. Col. Kevin Landers, commander of the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar.Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 American troops already battling the resurgent Taliban."We are going to take this footprint out of Iraq," said Landers, whose battalion received word of its reassignment last month just after taking command of clearing roads in Baghdad of bombs and debris.
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