Supporting the cause of veteran cricketers who are in need of financial help, Prabhakar said he was involving himself with the Veterans' Cricket Association of India (with R S Pareek as its secretary) as ``it is a genuine body which is concerned with the welfare of former cricketers.'' ``If the association makes a profit from the tournament, we will set aside a part of it to help needy sportspersons, who will be decided by a panel,'' he said.

Prabhakar said the association will also hold a series of one-day matches between the veterans of India and Pakistan soon after the Asia Cup.

Pareek informed newsmen here today that the newly-formed Cricket Council of Asia will hold its first meeting in New Delhi on April 23 under the chairmanship of Zaheer Abbas to finalise details of future tournaments among veterans.

G R Vishwanath, Manoj Prabhakar, Salim Durrani, Karsan Ghavri, Surinder Khanna, Praveen Amre, Ramesh Saxena, Yajuvender Sinh, Pradeep Sundaram, Lalchand Rajput and Ghulam Parkar will be some of the players that will be seen in action during the Asia Cup. ``We are trying to rope in K Srikkanth,'' Prabhakar said.

The Pakistan team will include Zaheer Abbas, Mansoor Akhtar, Rizwan-uz-Zaman, Tauseef Ahmed, Azeem Hafeez, Rashid Khan, Saleem Yousuf and Aamir Malik while Dileep Mendis, Lalith Kaluperuma, Don Anurasiri, Brendon Kuruppu and Ashoka de Silva will form part of the Sri Lankan squad.