The West Indies returned from a miserable non-playing week down south to find the practice area too wet for a much-needed nets session.

Subba Row is bravely battling on, arm in plaster. The West Indies dashed off to a local ground to get some batting exercise with their manager, Clive Lloyd, involved in an acrimonious dispute with the Pakistan Cricket Board.

It involves the trip to Hyderabad where the tourists were to have played a three-day game, or alternatively a one-day match, which never happened because rain had got under the covers.

Finding their original hotel bookings cancelled, the West Indies were offered a guest house where their big fast bowlers were expected to sleep in camp beds, mosquitos were thicker in the air than dust and the kitchen hygiene was dubious.

They inspected the hotel housing the Caribbean commentary team but on discovering Michael Holding was picking scorpions out of a hole in his ceiling, opted for the three-hour road journey back to Karachi.

The West Indies have not played any competitive cricket for eight days since they lost the first Test to Pakistan by an innings. Curtly Ambrose has back trouble and the West Indies may bring in Philo Wallace for his debut in place of the opener Stuart Williams.

Pakistan (from): *Wasim Akram, Aamir Sohail, Saeed Anwar, Ijaz Ahmed, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Azhar Mahmood, Mohammad Wasim, -Moin Khan, Waqar Younis, Mushtaq Ahmed, Shoaib Akhtar, Saqlain Mushtaq, Ali Naqvi.

West Indies (from): *C A Walsh, S C Williams, S L Campbell, S Chanderpaul, B C Lara, C L Hooper, P V Simmons, -D Williams, I R Bishop, C E L Ambrose, P A Wallace, R I C Holder, F A Rose, M Dillon.