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Over-rate Pak worry

Bowlers' injuries handicap India

AFP, Peshawar
Pakistan's bowlers will speed up the over-rate In Friday's third o n e - d a y international against India
here to prevent captain Inzamamul Haq from being banned.
Match referee Ranjan Madu-galle of Sri Lanka fined Inzamam 80 per cent of his match fee after the hosts fell three overs short of the required rate during the second one-dayer at Rawalpindi on Tuesday.
If the offence is repeated over the next 12 months, Inzamam faces a ban from two to fourTests or four to eight one-day internationals.
"Inzamam is definitely worried, but we have made our calculations and will keep a check on the overrate," team manager Haroon Rasheed told reporters.
"The over-rate becomes slow because when 300 runs are scored in an innings, it takes time to retrieve the ball from the boundary line.
"But the bowlers will not let their captain down on Friday or for therestoftheseries," Rasheed said.
The five-match one-day series has lived up to the hype generated by India's first full tour to Pakistan in 15 years with the first two matches both producing 300 runs in each innings.
Friday's wicket at Peshawar is
expected to produce another run feast.
"The wicket looks slighdy green, so that might help the bowlers a bit more," Gangulysaid.
"This is a small ground and they've left some grass on the wicket because otherwise it leaves no margin for error for the bowlers at all."
The teams are locked at 1-1 with India edging out Pakistan by five runs in Karachi while the hosts hit back with another close 12-run win at Rawalpindi.
The victor on Friday will gain a definite edge going into the last two matchesatLahoreonMarcIi21and24.
India, meanwhile, are pondering their limited bowling options after seamer Ashish Nehra was sent home with a hand injury. The tourists are already without three Injured frontline bowlers, Ajit Agarkar, Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh.
Nehra, who bowled India to victory in the first match at Karachi by conceding just three runs in the final over when Pakistan needed nine to win, will be replaced by Delhi teammateAmit Bhandari.
It is likely that young seamer Irfan Pathan will play his first match in the series to bolster the new ball attack of Zaheer Khan and Laxmipathy Balaji.
"Injuries are part and parcel of the modern game because we play so much these days," said Indian captain SouravGanguly.
"I expect Pathan to deliver. We are very keen to win this one because.taldng the lead will be very handy before for the last two games.
"There appears to be some grass on the wicket, but it remains to be seen howmuch of it will be there on Fridaymorning," hesaid.
India rejected this northwestern city as a Test venue over security fears due to its proximity to the volatile Afghanistan border, but agreed to play a one-day game after receiving safety assurances from the Pakistan government
The provincial government has banned the entry of Afghan refugees into the 16,000-capacity stadium, which is being guarded around the clock by 1,500 policemen and para-military troops.