AAMIR SOHAIL'S stunning century for Allied Bank on the second day of this game against the South Africans illustrates the fractious elements which still bedevil Pakistan cricket.

Their selectors are due shortly to name the side for the second Test, starting on Friday, and after the poor form of their experienced batsmen in the first drawn game, Sohail's performance should make his inclusion almost a formality. Yet he responded: ``I have no intention of playing for Pakistan again I am totally fed up with them.''

Sohail, 31, is the second leading batsman in the course of a weekend to publicly to turn his back on the Test team. Ramiz Raja was asked by the selectors to captain the Allied Bank side here but declined, saying he was no longer interested in competing for a Test place.

Sohail's use of VIP seats for friends during an important domestic game landed him in hot water with Majid Khan, the board's chief executive, and shortly afterwards he lost the captaincy of the one-day side.

Ramiz was replaced as Test captain by Saeed Anwar, while waiting in the wings is former captain Wasim Akram, who missed the first South African Test because of injury.

Wasim is now fit but the selectors have hinted they would like him to take another game off - an odd attitude in view of the fact that Waqar Younis is struggling with foot problems.

Hassan Raza is claimed to have become the youngest player to score a first-class double hundred when he hit an unbeaten 204 for Karachi against Bahawalpur on Sunday. Raza's age is put at 15 years and 215 days. The previous youngest double century maker was fellow Pakistani Ijaz Ahmed, at 16 years and 85 days.

When Raza made his Test debut for Pakistan against Zimbabwe last October he was 14 years and 227 days but the Pakistan board said bone tests suggested that he was older.