KARACHI, Sept 25: Eleven-members of the Pakistan cricket team, which lost a cliff-hanger final to India by five runs in the Twenty20 World Cup, returned here from Johannesburg on Tuesday.

A large number of cricket fans greeted and cheered the team members at the Quaid-e-Azam International Airport as they came out of the terminal building.

Those who returned home includes vice captain Salman Butt, Mohammad Hafeez, Shahid Afridi, Younis Khan, Misbah-ul-Haq, Kamran Akmal, Umar Gul, Fawad Alam, Mohammad Asif, Sohail Tanvir and Yasir Arafat.

Batting coach Haroon Rasheed, video analyst Mohammad Talha and kitman Malang Ali also returned with the team.

The rest of the players including captain Shoaib Malik, Abdul Rehman, Imran Nazir, Rao Iftikhar, manager Talat Ali, coach Geoff Lawson, trainer David Dwyer and media manager Dr Ahsan Malik will return home on Wednesday, a PCB spokesman said on Tuesday.—APP