Babar Azam and Mickey Arthur
There has been a phase of rhetoric in Pakistan cricket for a long time, in which Mohammad Hafeez, who was recently removed from the post of team director, has now made a big revelation about Babar Azam and Mickey Arthur. Mohammad Hafeez claimed that former captain Babar Azam and foreign coaches Mickey Arthur and Grant Bradburn had kept the team’s fitness at the bottom of the priority list ahead of the ODI World Cup in India. Let us tell you that the Pakistani team had a very poor performance in the World Cup, in which it was able to win only 4 out of 9 matches and could not make its place in the semi-finals.
As soon as I reached Australia, I asked the team trainer to report on the fitness standards of the players.
Mohammad Hafeez was removed from the post after the disappointing performance of the Pakistani team on its disappointing tour of Australia and New Zealand. Now he said in one of his statements that when I became the team director, as soon as I reached Australia, I asked the team trainer to give me a report on the fitness standards of the players. I asked him to prepare a new fitness routine. After this he told me that former captain Babar Azam and head coach Mickey Arthur had told him 6 months ago that fitness is not a priority at this time and the players should be allowed to play the way they want. When the team trainer told me all this, it was so surprising to me that he was told not to check the fitness of the players. Hafeez further said in his statement that when some players were tested in Australia, they could not even complete a two kilometer race.
In the current era, fitness is the first priority.
Former director of Pakistan team Mohammad Hafeez said that at present the first priority of all the teams playing cricket is fitness so that their players are fully prepared to play in any situation. Hafeez further said that during the Australia tour, the body fat level of the players was one and a half points above the normal limit.
(PTI INPUTS)
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