Boot camp won’t help: Abdul Qadir

Karachi

The outspoken player also slammed the PCB for recruitment of Mickey Arthur as the chief coach, when he was unable to take charge of the team immediately. “What is the purpose of this boot camp? It has been organized to improve fitness of the players but to me the most important area in which our players need to work  on and improve for the England tour is in the batting or skills department,” Qadir said.

“It would have been a far more sensible to prepare four to five seaming pitches in Lahore or any other venue and have the probables for the tour play proper four-day matches among themselves,” he said. “These matches on pitches similar to what we should encounter in England would have helped our players prepare properly for the coming test series where our batting will be the most vulnerable,” he said.

The experienced leg-spinner said that main problem area is weak batting line-up. “I don’t know what was the purpose of having this boot camp and so much stress on fitness. Priorities need to be sorted out,” he added.

Qadir also said when the head coach was not available for the duration of the boot camp why have it in the first place. “If the board had organized matches in Lahore the selectors could have got a better idea of which players make the team for the tough tour and also to judge their fitness,” he said.