A TEENAGE Cricket fan has been committed to crown court for trial after being re-charged following an incident at a one-day international between Australia and Pakistan.

Student Yasin Shafi, 18, of Oxford Road, Burnley, was brought back to court after initial allegations were dropped because the Crown Prosecution Service were not ready to present their original case when it came before London's Horseferry Magistrates Court in February.

But Shafi and two other cricket fans were re-arrested and re-charged with affray, using or threatening violence towards another.

Shafi,17 at the time of the alleged incident, was committed for trial at Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court on unconditional bail and ordered to appear on April 26 when he appeared before the bench yesterday.

Student Samiullah Khan, 19, of Portland Road, South Norwood, South London, and bank worker Haroon Qureshi, 19, of Victoria Avenue, East Ham, East London, were sent on unconditional bail for trial and ordered to appear there for a preliminary hearing on April 26 at an earlier hearing.

The three, and a fourth cricket fan who has not been re-charged, walked free from court in February after being accused of hooliganism during the presentations at the end of the National Westminster one-day international between Australia and Pakistan at Lords on June 23 last year.

Aussie international and former professional with Rawtenstall Cricket Club Mike Bevan was hit by a missile during the disturbance at the ground in St John's Wood on June 23.

He suffered slight reddening and swelling to the face, after he and Lords stewards and a white fan were allegedly attacked by a mob of Asian youths on the pitch.