Informed sources said the selectors have more or less decided to recall Ijaz Ahmad who was excluded from the 14 players that were announced for the first Test.

Ijaz, a veteran of 46 Tests and a scorer of 2,416 runs at 37.16, will replace Mohammad Wasim and will bat at the pivotal one-down spot.

But deliberations were still on among the selectors and team management on the right combination for the second Test starting at Peshawar from Oct 15.

One of the options is to play with six specialist batsmen, a spinner, three seamers and a wicketkeeper while the other is to play with five specialist batsmen, two spinners, three seamers and a wicketkeeper.

However, the consensus building so far is for the inclusion of six batsmen, three seamers, a spinner and a wicketkeeper.

In this connection, the selectors are set to give Yousuf Yohanna his first Test cap on home soil and also include paceman Shoaib Akhtar for Saqlain Mushtaq.

``There is still enough time for the second Test. But we are considering what team should be played,'' chief selector Wasim Bari said.

``We will announce the 14 next week and it will then be upto the team management to pick the final eleven,'' he added.

Reliable sources said there was a split between the selectors and the team management on the composition of the first Test squad.

They said the selectors wanted to play Shoaib Akhtar in place of Mohammad Husain. But the suggestion was refused on the argument that the wicket would take more spin on the fifth day and the team batting last would face all sorts of problems in tackling spinners. Interestingly, there was never a fourth innings in the match.

The likely 14 for the second Test are (first 11 expected to play the match):

Aamir Sohail (captain), Saeed Anwar, Ijaz Ahmad, Salim Malik, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Yousuf Yohanna, Moin Khan, Azhar Mahmood, Wasim Akram, Mushtaq Ahmad, Shoaib Akhtar, Aqib Javed, Mohammad Wasim and Saqlain Mushtaq.