Brett Lee would have featured for Australia

The square remained under covers throughout, but as the clouds gathered, the gloomy forecasters were proved correct.

Steve Waugh's team, the 1999 World Cup winners, top the table on six points after winning their three matches while Pakistan lie second with two wins from three.

England, beaten four times in a row, saw their last hopes disappear at Old Trafford on Thursday when they were dismissed for 86 by Australia on the way to a 125-run defeat in a rain-affected game.

Australia: M Waugh, A Gilchrist (wkt), M Hayden, M Bevan, S Waugh (captain), D Martyn, A Symonds, S Warne, B Lee, J Gillespie, D Fleming.

Pakistan: Salim Elahi, Shahid Afridi, Yousuf Youhana, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Abdur Razzaq, Waqar Younis (captain), Rashid Latif (wkt), Saqlain Mushtaq, Younis Khan, Wasim Akram, Azhar Mahmood, Saeed Anwar.