West Indies captain Carl Hooper will miss the forthcoming tour to Bangladesh in order to undergo knee surgery.
He suffered the injury early on in the current tour to India and missed Tuesday's one-day international in Rajkot.
Hooper will fly to Australia at the conclusion of the seven-match series to undergo an operation with the aim of ensuring he is fit to attend a pre-World Cup training camp in January.
"Although the injury has been providing Hooper with ongoing discomfort and cause for concern, it has been successfully managed so far on tour," said team manager Ricky Skerritt.
Pakistan in Zimbabwe
Pakistan are confident of wrapping up a series victory after putting the Shoaib Akhtar ball tampering controversy behind them.
Fast bowler Shoaib was formally reprimanded by match referee Clive Lloyd following the first Test in Harare, which Pakistan won by 119 runs.
The Pakistan Cricket Board has yet to announce whether any further punishment will be imposed by them.
But the team insist the matter has not affected their preparation for Saturday's game at the Queens Park Oval.
"It looks a pretty good batting track, but probably it will keep low later on as the days go.
"It will probably suit us more because it's more the kind of wicket we play on in Pakistan, kind of low and slow," said captain Waqar Younis.
Shoaib will keep his place in what is likely to be an unchanged team and a 2-0 win would be the ideal way to bounce back from a recent whitewash by Australia.
Despite losing in Harare, however, Zimbabwe were competitive throughout the game.
Miscellaneous
Cricket is the second most popular sport among adults in South Africa after soccer, according to the latest research conducted by BMI-Sport Info.
Cricket has moved from fourth position to second in just a year, with a phenomenal growth of over two million adults showing new spectator interest in cricket. Part of this growth has been attributed to new interest among black African adults.
According to the 2002 Adult SportTrack Report, over 8.3 million adults in South Africa follow cricket, behind soccer and ahead of rugby. Last year's figure for cricket followers was just over 6 million.
The report is used extensively in the commercial sector, especially for sponsors to gauge the success of their sponsorships. It provides business people and electronic media channels with the necessary information in order to evaluate different sports.
Cricket has also shown significant growth in the period between 1992 and 2002, making it the second-fastest growing spectator sport over the past 10 years.
