``We've some new players in this squad but we believe, it's our best possible combination.Though without Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh - the two front-line fast bowlers, Lara was quite confident about his new bowling side and said : ``We've lot of variation in this department.'' He said all-rounder Carl Hooper is ``our key player'' who will give his best in the tournament.
Two-times world champions West Indies will take on another world champions Pakistan in the last quarter-final on Thursday.
Team: Brain Lara (captain), Clayton Lambert, Phil Wallace, Shivnarine Chanderpual, Phil Simmons, Keith Arthurton, Carl Hooper, Reon King, Ridley Jacobs, Stuart Williams (wicket-keeper), Mervyn Dillon, Rawl Lewis, Nixon McLean and Neil McGarrel.
Officials : Clive Lloyd (manager), Malcom Marshall (coach) and D Waight (physio).
Pakistan, Australia: Former world champions Pakistan and Australia will arrive here tomorrow (Tuesday) morning.
The 16-member Pakistan team, led by left-handed batsman Aamir Sohail, and rest of the Australian squad, led by Stephen Waugh will come by the same flight.
Australia will take on India on Wednesday.
With the arrival of the two teams tomorrow, all the nine Test playing teams will be in Dhaka.
Australian team: Stephen Waugh (captain), Mark Waugh, Michael Bevan, Adam Gilchrist, Brendon Julian, Damien Martyn, Damien Fleming, Michael Kasprowicz, Darren Lehmann, Glenn McGrath, Ricky Ponting, Gavin Robertson, Andrew Simon and Brad Young.
Officials : Steve Barnard (manager), Geoff Marsh (coach), Errloalcott (physio), David Mission (fitness adviser) and Mike Walsh (scorer).
As two personal records are ahead of the Indian captain, Mohammad Azharuddin, he is highly confident to win the International Cup, the third trophy for his country in Dhaka.
``Obviously we will like to improve our record by clinching the third trophy in Dhaka as we already have two,'' said the most successful Indian skipper who makes a record of playing 300th one-day when goes for the toss on Wednesday.
Another world record of highest one-day score also awaits for the highest one-day played player, if he is able to make only 95 runs in the tournament. Now his score is 8554 against the record holder West Indian Desmond Hayenes's 8648.
As Bangabandhu National Stadium is a lucky ground for India, specially where they won the Independence Cup by chasing a huge 314 of Pakistan, Azzu said their playing experience in Dhaka will not be an extra advantage.
Anshuman Gaekwad told the newsmen that they had a conditioning camp before flying to Dhaka. ``And again the basics were renewed in the camp,'' he said when asked what new was trained by Simpson.
De Silva: Sri Lanka's most dependable batsman Arvinda de Silva will marry Sarita Rajendran, a model.