Pakistan men’s cricket team pre-departure training camp for Asian Games
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
The Pakistan men’s cricket team squad assembled in Karachi today and will take part in a training camp at the Hanif Mohammad High-Performance Centre from Monday, 21 September to Thursday, 24 September. The team will depart for Japan on the night of 24 September.
Five members of the squad, including Usman Khan, Saim Ayub, Maaz Sadaqat, Hasan Nawaz and Sufyan Moqim, are expected to join the camp following their franchise commitments, which will conclude on Sunday night according to Barbados local time.
Fast bowler Mohammad Wasim Jnr replaced Mohammad Salman Mirza in the squad after the latter was sidelined from the event due to a fracture in his left thumb. Salman is currently undergoing rehabilitation and is expected to regain complete fitness in the first week of October.
Following is the day-by-day schedule of Pakistan’s squad for the pre-departure camp: (All practice sessions will be at HPC nets area and HPC Oval, Karachi)
For all queries related to media operations at the venue, please contact Amir Siddiqui.
21 and 22 September – The team will take part in a training session from 10 am to 1 pm.
23 September – The team will play a T20 practice match from 10 am onwards at the Oval Ground.
24 September – The team will take part in a centre-wicket scenario match session at the Oval Ground from 10 am onwards. The 21-member Pakistan men’s cricket contingent will depart for Japan from Jinnah International Airport, Karachi at 11 pm.
Note: All sessions are vision-only opportunities. Any changes to the above schedule will be communicated by the PCB through its usual communication channels.
Only PCB-accredited media persons are invited to cover the training camp.
Updated 15-member squad in alphabetical order:
Sahibzada Farhan (captain), Abdul Samad (vice-captain), Abrar Ahmed, Ahmed Daniyal, Akif Javed, Ali Raza, Arafat Minhas, Haider Ali, Hasan Nawaz, Maaz Sadaqat, Mohammad Wasim Jnr, Saad Masood, Saim Ayub, Sufyan Moqim and Usman Khan (wicket-keeper)
Support staff:
Mike Hesson (head coach), Ashley Noffke (bowling coach), Mansoor Amjad (fielding coach), Muhammad Tahir (physiotherapist), Imran Ullah (trainer), Usman Hashmi (analyst-cum-team operations coordinator)
Reference Link:- https://www.pcb.com.pk/press-release-detail/pakistan-men-s-cricket-team-pre-departure-training-camp-for-asian-games.html
Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
