LAHORE, Feb 12: Fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar reached England on Monday to get a second opinion from doctors about his troubling left knee.

"I received a call from my doctor in London and I have rushed here to have a second opinion about my knee before the World Cup squad is announced," Shoaib told Dawn from London.

But while the controversial pacer was reluctant to speak in detail about the visit, sources close to him told Dawn that he was on a brief visit to London and was expected to return home on Tuesday. “If he gets a clearance from the doctors about his knees he will be a happy man but if he is advised a surgery, that would take at least three weeks to recover,” sources said.

Meanwhile, a PCB official said that Wasim Bari was on his way back from South Africa and he would hand over the World Cup squad to the board on Tuesday for further submission to the ICC which has set a Feb 13 as deadline for the final squad.

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