Vaas sets his sights on 2011 World Cup

Sri Lankan fast bowler Chaminda Vaas is keen to get back into the one-day fold and hopes the 2011 World Cup will provide the stage for his final bow. "For a cricketer it is a challenge, and you've got to have those challenges," he said. "But I am confident that I will get back. The 2011 World Cup will be my last World Cup and I am going to finish my cricket then."

Vaas, who is still going strong in Tests, has picked up 354 wickets in the 109 matches he has played, but has not featured in a one-dayer since the 2-3 home series loss against India in August last year. He has reason to be hopeful, though, after grabbing 400 wickets in 322 ODIs - only the fourth bowler after Muttiah Muralitharan (505), Wasim Akram (502), Waqar Younis (416) to have reached the 400-milestone in ODIs.

"I have been playing domestic cricket back home, both three-dayers and one-dayers and am looking forward to the Tests. I still want to come back in the ODIs."

He was also enthusiastic about the next generation of fast bowlers from Sri Lanka. "I think we have good fast bowlers coming up, we have a good academy under [Champaka] Ramanayake which has produced some good bowlers," he said. "It is a challenge to keep up with that, but it is good that we have so many coming up."

Vaas, who picked up 1 for 30 in the 10 overs he bowled during the tour game against the Pakistan Cricket Board Patron's XI in Karachi today, expected a tough challenge from Pakistan in the two-Test series, the first of which gets under way in Karachi on Saturday.

"Well the wicket was flat, there was nothing for the fast bowlers but we had good practice. Pakistan is a tough side so I am looking forward to the encounter."