Selectors call additional players for Pakistan cricket Test camp

Selectors call additional players for Pakistan cricket Test camp.

Pakistan cricket selectors are pursuing a strategy to keep all the leading performers involved in the system.

Therefore, they have invited six additional players who will participate in the training camp for the Test players.

Selectors call additional players for Pakistan cricket Test camp

According top a spokesman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, it will commence at the Gaddafi Stadium on 10 April.

These six players inlcude: Irfan Ullah Shah (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Naseem Shah (Central Punjab), Rohail Nazir (Northern), Sameen Gul (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Taj Wali (Balochistan), Waqas Maqsood (Central Punjab).

In the training camp held prior to the side’s departure for Johannesburg, the selectors had invited seven additional players so that the coaches would work on their development.

Separately, a high performance training camp for 25 players not involved in the HBL Pakistan Super League 6, was held at the National High Performance Centre but it had to be closed due to a rise in Covid-19 cases.

Moreover, the Test players’ camp will run under a bio-secure environment from 11-20 April before the 11 players will depart for Harare on 21 April to join other members of the side.

Both teams will play play two Tests in Harare from 29 April-3 May and 7-11 May.

Meanwhile, the spokesman said camp will be held under the supervision of National High Performance coaches.

They include: Saqlain Mushtaq (head of player development), Mohammad Yousuf (batting coach), Mushtaq Ahmed (spin bowling coach), Umer Rasheed (fast bowling coach) and Atiq-uz-Zaman (wicketkeeping/fielding coach), Javed Sheikh (Strength & Conditioning Coach), Tahir (Physiotherapist) and a masseur.

Those attending camps include

Meanwhile, Harare-bound Test players to attend camp include:

Abid Ali (Central Punjab), Azhar Ali (Central Punjab), Faheem Ashraf (Central Punjab), Fawad Alam (Sindh), Imran Butt (Balochistan), Nauman Ali (Northern), Sajid Khan (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Salman Ali Agha (Southern Punjab), Saud Shakeel (Sindh, subject to fitness), Shahnawaz Dahani (Sindh), Tabish Khan (Sindh) and Zahid Mahmood (Southern Punjab)

Furthermore, it announced training programme (subject to last-minute changes).

11 April: Training at GSL from 1000-1300.

12 April: Full day scenario match from 0930

13 April: Half-a-day scenario match from 0930
15 April: Full day scenario match from 0930

18 April: Full day scenario match from 0930
19 April: Half-a-day scenario match from 0930

20 April: Optional training or as advised by coaches
21 April: Departure for Harare.

GTV