Azam Khan and Rizwan have been ruled out of this series. Rizwan even in contention to miss the Ireland & England tours now. Who knows how serious their injuries are and if they are going to get fit in the next 35 days for the world cup.
So it begs the question if this army camp is the reason behind these injuries if it was really necessary to conduct it? What exactly did PCB or the team achieve from it?
Such a big board and nobody noticed that some of these players have been playing non-stop cricket in the past 12 months. Don't they realize that different professions (let alone sports) require specialized or specific physical+mental training and this military training wasn't going to help them with their cricket? On top of that, nobody advised them to keep the fragile/injury prone players away from military exercises.
Instead, I'd suggest to send this team to one of the other physical sports' training camps for a month or two and we could see better and more fruitful results. But for that, the board needs to learn it requires to adapt a more scientific approach towards fitness and training to help the players and not military training.
So it begs the question if this army camp is the reason behind these injuries if it was really necessary to conduct it? What exactly did PCB or the team achieve from it?
Such a big board and nobody noticed that some of these players have been playing non-stop cricket in the past 12 months. Don't they realize that different professions (let alone sports) require specialized or specific physical+mental training and this military training wasn't going to help them with their cricket? On top of that, nobody advised them to keep the fragile/injury prone players away from military exercises.
Instead, I'd suggest to send this team to one of the other physical sports' training camps for a month or two and we could see better and more fruitful results. But for that, the board needs to learn it requires to adapt a more scientific approach towards fitness and training to help the players and not military training.