PAKISTAN'S tour of the West Indies remained in doubt yesterday less than two days before the first Test despite the drugs charges against four of their players in Grenada being dropped on Monday, writes Tony Cozier from Port of Spain, Trinidad.

PAKISTAN'S cricket tour of the West Indies, in jeopardy since the arrest of captain Wasim Akram and three other players on drugs charges on Thursday, was given the green light late yesterday when the Director of Public Prosecutions in Grenada dropped the charges.

PAKISTAN are now resigned to four of their players, including their captain, Wasim Akram, appearing in a Grenadian court to face charges of illegal possession of marijuana.

PAKISTAN started their three-day match against a West Indies Under-23 XI on schedule in Grenada yesterday while Khalid Mahmood, the team manager, met Nestor Ogilvy, the police commissioner, to discuss the drugs charges against four of his players that have placed the tour in jeopardy.

PAKISTAN'S cricket tour of the West Indies has been thrown into jeopardy after the arrest of four players, including the captain Wasim Akram and vice-captain Waqar Younis, on drugs charges in Grenada.

FORGET JFK, I can tell you where I was when I heard that Princess Grace was killed. It was four o'clock in the morning and I was driving a car up and down the seafront at Aberdovey.