No mineral water for Pak domestic players

In an apparent official apathy towards domestic players, the cricketers of the Karachi and Habib Bank teams, playing the final of the Quaid-e-Azam trophy, have been not been provided mineral drinking water, citing fund shortage.

The players are being given 'filtered' water from the cooler during the breaks at the national stadium.

Younus Khan, who complained of upset stomach, had to manage mineral water bottles for himself on his own.

"But the water we are giving to the players from the cooler is also filtered," a ground staff member claimed.

Surprisingly one of the scorers claimed that the scorebook they were using was not provided to them by the PCB.

"The scorers association has repeatedly asked the Board to print and publish its own scorebooks as it is done everywhere else in the cricketing world. But they say they don't have money so we bring our own personal scorebooks for the domestic matches," he said.

The scorers have to pay 500 rupees from their own pockets for each scorebook.