PAK The aftermath of Kakul camp...

[Munna]

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.

 

[ahmad.rashid]

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.

rizwan was hiding this injury for a long time

 

[Kaleem]

It was yet another political stunt which served no real purpose as far as cricket is concerned. No serious athlete is out there doing military drills in a two week camp to improve their fitness and eating cakes rest of the year lmao.

Some of those drills were pretty dangerous and unnecessary, I'm actually relieved we didn't see a few players with ankle injuries. They had them running up mountains with stones over their head rofl.

If PCB was serious about fitness, they'd hire proper world class strength and conditioning trainers who would be with the team all year round. And introduce strict guidelines regarding players' diets.

 

[Shoaibbtt]

Honestly i don't know why they made them do army level training, this is cricket and not boxing. Circuit training is the best cardio and then you have your weights for strength and conditioning. Don't go overboard with the workouts.

 

[Kaleem]

Another injury

 

[ASLI-PATHAN]

So who will keep wickets?

 

[Kaleem]

So who will keep wickets?

Usman Khan can keep

 

[ASLI-PATHAN]

Usman Khan can keep

Should bring in Haris

 

[PaceHeiNa]

Some of these ‘fans’ are beghairats

 

[Munna]

rizwan was hiding this injury for a long time

Even if he was, so how was his board not able to identify it all this time?

 

[ahmad.rashid]

Even if he was, so how was his board not able to identify it all this time?

Ask this question to dr sohail or whoever

 

[24DotBalls]

Even if he was, so how was his board not able to identify it all this time?

I feel like it wasn't a full-blown injury but just something he has struggled with. He's had cramps and hamstring problems for a while now, stopped many an innings to call the physio out. Seems like it was only a matter of time before it gave way and it looks like PSL followed by high-intensity training for 2 weeks and then a T20 series was all that was needed to push it over the edge.

 

[ahmad.rashid]

In 2016 we did this exact same thing but then there were no injuries coming out you have destroyed the fitness culture and yoyo test

 

[Giantsmm]

Ab bolo @Kaleem

Pakistan injuries unrelated to Kakul training camp, says PCB chairman

In the weeks that followed the camp, Azam, Rizwan and Niazi all had their participation in the NZ series curtailed

www.espncricinfo.com

 

[Kaleem]

Ab bolo @Kaleem

Pakistan injuries unrelated to Kakul training camp, says PCB chairman

In the weeks that followed the camp, Azam, Rizwan and Niazi all had their participation in the NZ series curtailed

www.espncricinfo.com

@Patriot's jokes make more sense than this explanation

 

[Patriot]

Ab bolo @Kaleem

Pakistan injuries unrelated to Kakul training camp, says PCB chairman

In the weeks that followed the camp, Azam, Rizwan and Niazi all had their participation in the NZ series curtailed

www.espncricinfo.com

@Patriot's jokes make more sense than this explanation

tbf these camps expose the players fitness level. SA players would've easily passed the training. Same for Australian players

 

[Augustus]

Not a fan of Azam’s fitness, but the Kakul camp was stupid. It was never realistic to improve fitness within a short timeframe. Just a gimmick to make it seem PCB care about fitness.