(Openers): Salman Butt, Imran Farhat, Imran Nazir, Khurram Manzoor, Taufeeq Umar, Babar Naeem, Khalid Latif.

(Middle Order): Mohammad Yousuf, Faisal Iqbal, Misbah-ul-Haq, Asim Kamal, Hasan Raza, Naved Latif, Yasir Hameed, Riffatullah Mohammad, Shahid Yousuf , Adnan Raza.

(All Rounders): Shoaib Malik (Captain), Abdul Razzaq , Shahid Afridi, Mohamamd Hafeez, Fawad Alam.

(Fast Bowlers): Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Sami, Umar Gul, Rao Iftikhar Anjum, Shabbir Ahmad, Abdul Rauf, Mohammad Irshad, Najaf Shah, Shahid Nazir, Mohammad Khalil.

(Spinners): Abdul Rahman, Tahir Khan, Atif Maqbool, Mansoor Amjad.

(Wicketkeepers): Kamran Akmal, Sarfraz Ahmad, Zulqarnain HaiderI

I thought it would be useful to reproduce the full list here. These players will meet up on the 28th of April at the Gadaffi and there will be a 'camp' here until May 5 before a final squad of 15 is announced by May 6. Four players which were -at some stage at least- part of the World Cup squad have been dropped or are missing from this squad. I guess most of you will have already picked who they are, but for the more dimwitted like my self, the four are:

Shoaib Akhtar (who reportedly needs yet more time to recover from yet another so-called 'injury'), Younis Khan (who is unavailable) and Rana Naved and Danish Kaneria, who, we can only presume, did not fit the new selection committee criteria (“The players were selected based on their previous performance and they are the unanimous choice of selection committee headed by Salahuddin”, said a spokesman of PCB on Sunday).

Quite a few interesting names in there though. Baring one or two, I've heard of most of them at some point in time, many of those in very recent times, but the squad as a whole is still too large to be commented on. The final 15 will be even more interesting. I'll postpone the intro on some of the young guns in the list until May 6 then. Right now I'll go and try and catch some sleep. Nighty night.. See you all later.