West Indies-bound Test players’ camp in Karachi from Wednesday

KARACHI: West Indies-bound Pakistan national team’s Test players will attend a 10-day training and conditioning camp under bio-secure protocols at the National Stadium in Karachi from Wednesday.

The camp will conclude on 17th of this month while players will enter the bio-secure in a Lahore hotel on 21st before departing for Barbados on 26th of this month.

The camp will be supervised by National High Performance Centre coaches, headed by Saqlain Mushtaq head of player development and also included Mohammad Yousuf batting coach, Mushtaq Ahmed spin bowling coach, Umar Rashid, Atiq-uz-Zaman, Imtiaz Ahmed, Saboor Ahmed and Imran Sultan.

In addition to the 11 Test players, including Abid Ali, Azhar Ali, Fawad Alam, Imran Butt, Mohammad Abbas, Naseem Shah, Nauman Ali, Sajid Khan, Shahnawaz Dahani, Yasir Shah and Zahid Mahmood, the selectors have also invited six additional players.

The 25 players and player support personnel, along with five essential staff, on Sunday underwent Covid-19 testing and all have returned negative. As such, 30-member contingent will assemble in Karachi tomorrow where they will undergo second testing before the camp resumes on Wednesday.

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