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KARACHI, March 5: The Pakistan cricket selectors will be trying to make up for the lost time when they announce a 19-man provision squad on Sunday for the forthcoming World Cup. The World Cup will be played in England between May 14 and June 20.

The selectors, according to the International Cricket Council (ICC) guidelines, were supposed to submit the probables by Feb 28. The ICC has set March 15 as the final date to trim the squad to the allowed 15 players.

Pakistan are the only team who have not submitted their squad. The reasons for the delay in compliance with the instructions were not known despite the fact that the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) had passed on the instructions to the selectors early last month.

If the selectors have failed to meet the initial ICC deadline by six days, it makes little sense in announcing 19 players on Saturday and then short-listing those to 15 before March 15.

The chairman of selectors Wasim Bari on Friday left for Lahore where he will be discussing the probables with skipper Wasim Akram and coach Javed Miandad before releasing them to the media.

``We couldn't finalize the 19 players because the team was busy in international matches. After all, Sri Lanka also announced the team only the other day,'' chief selector Wasim Bari, who was also ignorant that the team had to be finalized by March 15, remarked from Lahore.

Bari said every player would be considered for selection. ``And the same applies to Aamir Sohail. Our objective is to raise a team that can win the World Cup,'' he said when asked if Aamir Sohail would be considered in the background of his fine one-day record.