THE Old Trafford Test may be remembered for its no balls and verbals as much as the feast of dramatic cricket.

Four days later under the Edgbaston floodlights, the two sides resume rivalries today with emotions hardly having had time to cool in the first match of the NatWest triangular series.

But it is a pre-Ashes tournament England must launch without injured fast bowler Andy Caddick, who has a back muscle problem and will miss the first two games.

Yorkshire's Matthew Hoggard has been drafted into the squad up to and including the third game at Lord's on Tuesday.

Pakistan squared the Test series in a frantic final session of mass appealing and some apparent exchanges of view between batsmen and close fielders, and earlier in the game both teams were warned by match referee Brian Hastings.

The captains insist the sides get on well off the field, and some chat on it is accepted as part of the international game, but England' stand-in leader Alec Stewart yesterday re-iterated the view of his Surrey colleague Graham Thorpe that it should be restricted to the time between deliveries.

In one-day cricket, of course, close-field settings are rarely seen, so any talking time should be at a minimum in the coming weeks of the limited-over combat also featuring world champions Australia.

Stewart said: ''It was probably a bit more than normal at Old Trafford, when there's lot of men around the bat and there's going to be a lot of appealing on a turning wicket.

"I think Graham Thorpe summed it up well in his website. Anything can be said in between deliveries, but the when the bowler starts his run-up, then it's time to respect the game and have silence until that delivery's been bowled and the batsman's played it or let it go.

''Graham, who normally doesn't make too much of a fuss, pulled away on a couple of occasions, and you don't want that to happen.

''There were words exchanged, by a couple of individuals on each side, but the relationship we have with them is very good.

''Monday evening we were out with Waqar Younis; he's a good mate of ours along with Saqlain. Off the field it's fine, you play it hard and hopefully you play it fair. That's the way it's been and hopefully that's the way it always will be.

''We've had three months playing against Pakistan and it is hard, you're going to exchange words, but you never let that go too far. As long as the captains and umpires make sure it doesn't go too far then it shouldn't be a problem''.

England have a revised squad from the Test, with Paul Collingwood and the recalled Ben Hollioake to give a new look and perspective to the one-day side which has lost its last five internationals.

Maybe neither will find a place in the final line-up for today's match, but England coach Duncan Fletcher will have another five games to assess talent, or six if England reach the final on June 23.

Fletcher said: ''We've brought in two youngsters Collingwood and Hollioake, hopefully we'll be looking at them, just see how talented they are. Hopefully they can progress before the World Cup, it just gets a it bit dangerous when you start putting in lots of inexperience players, you can get come unstuck and you've got to get the balance right.

''You've got to have experience to some degree at the same time, you want to give some young guy an opportunity. The only thing about it in this situation is we are up against such talented sides, world champions and runners-up in the last final''.

England may opt for an in-form Michael Vaughan batting at number six, and Caddick's absence should ensure a place for Alan Mullally.

One of Stewart's tasks will be to put the Manchester defeat behind them, but a new tournament will provide different outlooks.

Stewart added: ''It will be no problem at all in picking ourselves up. It's a different style of cricket, and we haven't lost a series''.

In last year's tournament, the Edgbaston temporary lights did not reach the standard and two extra pylons have been erected for the first of the three day/night matches.

England (from): AJ Stewart (captain, wkt), ME Trescothick, NV Knight, GP Thorpe, AD Brown, MP Vaughan, BC Hollioake, PD Collingwood, MA Ealham, RDB Croft, DG Cork, D Gough, A Mullally.

Pakistan (from): Waqar Younis (captain), Saeed Anwar, Shahid Afridi, Faisal Iqbal, Abdur Razzaq, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Yousuf Youhana, Younis Khan, Azhar Mahmood, Imran Nazir, Rashid Latif (wkt), Wasim Akram, Saqlain Mushtaq, Shoaib Akhtar, Shoaib Malik.