Younis sustains minor fracture

Pakistan's Champions Trophy campaign has suffered a setback as their captain Younis Khan suffered a minor fracture on his little finger during a training session on Friday.

"It's a little fracture. Nothing serious," he said. "We will assess it on Monday. Hopefully it should be alright." He still played in Pakistan's convincing victory over Sri Lanka in Friday's warm-up match Friday in Benoni.

Younis also said he was hurting from Pakistan's defeat to India in the 2003 World Cup, and wanted revenge when the teams face off next Saturday in Centurion.

"It hurts. I played that match. We scored 270 and still lost. A score of 250 in these conditions is considered safe," Younis said. "But the way Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag batted, and backed by Rahul Dravid and Yuvraj Singh, we were beaten.

"Indeed, we have lost to India in most of these ICC match-ups except only once [ the 2004 Champion Trophy]. Ab hamara bhi jeetne ka haq banta hai (even we deserve to win now)."

India have only one warm-up match, against New Zealand on Sunday, before taking on Pakistan but they enter the tournament on a high after winning the Compaq Cup in Sri Lanka last week. Captain MS Dhoni remained concerned about the fielding and reiterated his demand for improvement. "Our fielding standards, compared to the ones we had in Australia in 2007, is now very different," Dhoni said.

"It's not like we can be world beaters in seven days. We accept that. But if we can improve our standards by 10 to 15%, if the fielders can push their effort by 20% it would be good. That's realistic."