SYDNEY. Dec 31: । Pakistan opening । batsman Saeed | Anwar returns । home on Thurs-L- ——day after failing

Io recover sufficiently from a virus picked up during the early stages ol the team's cricket tour to Australia, reports AFP.

Team sources said the Pakistani team management has requested Asif Mujlaba and Ijaz Ahmed junior join the tourists as replacements.

It is believed that the Pakistan Cricket Board has yet to inform the team who will be arriving here later this week on Anwar's replacement.

World Series one-day international. having lost to the 1992 World Cup champions at their only previous meeting in Adelaide a fortnight ago.

Australian captain Mark Taylor, meanwhile, demanded today his players find an extra gear for the second half of the season following their six-wicket third Test loss to the West Indies in Melbourne last Sunday.

With Australia leading the Frank Worrell Trophy series 2-1. the five-Test series goes into recess for three weeks for the triangular one-day competition.

"It is time to find the extra

step up. to up the ante as well." Taylor admitted he was one playef needing to improve after making Just 264 runs in 12 Test innings since Decemlier 1995.

"I'm not batting at my best but I’ve done it before. I've played first-class cricket for 11 years and I've been in more than one trough." he said.

"I'm going to try a few different things — skipping, a bit of short running — just to get myself that little bit sharper."

TEAMS

AUSTRALIA: Mark Taylor (captain), Mark Waugh. Steve Waugh. Stuart Law. Greg Blewett. Michael Bevan. Tom

The illness completes a dire year for 28-year-old Anwar, who missed last summer’s three-Test tour of Australia with typhoid.

The Kar.u'lu h it-hander's only appearance on the current tour was the opening warm-up match against the Australian Cricket Academy in Adelaide.

Pakistan next play Australia here Wednesday in a

gear Other sides are changing gear, it's up to us to make sure we change gear and stay in front." Taylor said.

It takes a while for other sides to get used to our wickets, like us when we go to India for example.

"I still believe we are a better team in both competitions but we have to now make our little

Moody. Ian Healy. Paul Reiffel. Shane Warne. Glenn McGrath. Andrew Bichel (12th man to be named).

PAKISTAN (from): Aamir Sohail. Zahoor Elahi. Inza-mamul Haq. Ijaz Alimed. No-hammad Wasim. Shahid Afridi. Wasim Akram (captain). Moin Khan. Saqlain Mushtaq. Mushtaq Ahmed. Waqar Younis. Mohammad Zahid.