KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has issued a stern warning to 6-7 centrally contracted gamers, urging them to enhance their health or threat dropping their contracts.
The Pakistan staff health coach and physiotherapist will conduct one other spherical of health assessments on Monday in Lahore after some gamers did not meet the required benchmarks within the assessments held earlier this month.
“The gamers who’ve central and home contracts have been advised in clear phrases that there shall be no compromise on health and so they have to satisfy the benchmarks set by the staff’s health specialists,” a board official mentioned.
The official mentioned that “the 2 international head coaches, Jason Gillispie and Gary Kirsten had advised the PCB Chairman that no participant must be given any profit so far as health ranges are involved.”
These health assessments are geared toward assessing stamina, endurance, muscle energy, and different essential elements.
The PCB has delayed the announcement of the checklist of gamers eligible for central contracts for the 2024/2025 interval, which usually runs from July to July. Final yr, the announcement was postponed till September attributable to adjustments in board management.
This yr it’s anticipated that the board will scale back the variety of gamers receiving central contracts from the prevailing checklist of 27 as the brand new coaches are additionally laying plenty of stress on efficiency and behavioural evaluations.
The official mentioned the gamers discovered struggling to satisfy the benchmark in health assessments earlier this yr had been given two months to work on their health and the assessments on Monday are a part of the analysis course of.
The Pakistan staff has steadily confronted criticism for its health requirements in comparison with different worldwide groups.
After the World Cup in India final yr, staff director Muhammad Hafeez and former captain Misbah ul Haq revealed that former head coach Mickey Arthur and captain Babar Azam had instructed the coach to not stress gamers on health, permitting them to deal with efficiency.
