LAHORE – Pakistan squad for the Asia Cup underwent a fitness test at theNational Cricket Academy (NCA) on Monday.
The result of the Yo-Yo Endurance Test yielded some surprising results asHasan Ali outperformed all the other players with a career-best score of20.
For reference, Hasan Ali has scored better than Indian skipper Virat Kohliwhose latest fitness score was 19.
Sarfraz Ahmed, who has remained largely disappointing in fitness tests,managed to improve his score drastically and registered his career-bestscore of 18.2 as well.——————————
Imad Wasim and Junaid Khan, both making their comeback for Pakistan,showcased very different results as the former failed the test whereasJunaid ranked in the top-three.
According to the reports, 16 players cleared the 17.4 benchmark of theYo-Yo Endurance Test and Imad Wasim was the only candidate who will undergothe process again.
Mohammad Hafeez did not take the test due to personal reasons and willundergo the assessment on Tuesday.
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The complete list of players with their scores are yet to be released byPCB. Some of the results are as following:PlayerScoreHasan Ali 20Sarfraz Ahmed 18.2Shoaib Malik 17.8Imad Wasim 17.2
The coach, Micky Arthur, said that he is happy with the progress of theplayers. He further said:
The boys are really in good knick; hopefully their fitness would help themin achieving good results in the Asia Cup.
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The Asia Cup will commence from 15th September and Pakistan needs to beready to face the challenge and come on top. In order to do that, thetwo-session training will start from Tuesday.
