Afridi, Umar Akmal among players penalised for poor fitnessUmar Farooq
September 23, 2014
[RIGHT] A[/RIGHT]
Shahid Afridi, Umar Akmal, Abdur Rehman and Raza Hasan are the four big names among the Pakistan players found to be below their optimum level of fitness by the PCB. They will each have 25% of their monthly retainer docked for four months, starting with August’s fee. At the end of the four-month period, they can have their fitness reassessed.
The PCB had attached greater importance to fitness in its new contracts handed out to the players. The board had said this month that it was mulling handing out fines to players who failed to keep the fitness levels prescribed to them by the National Cricket Academy during a month-long camp in Lahore in May-June.
An assessment of 28 players’ fitness was carried out between September 6 and 8, but three players had failed to report for that evaluation due to personal reasons. Among them was Afridi, but he has since had the assessment. Wahab Riaz and Nasir Jamshed are yet to do so and, in their cases, it will have to wait until they are back from Lahore Lions’ Champions League T20 campaign in India.
Five players, meanwhile, were given bonuses for maintaining peak fitness. Shan Masood and Umar Amin will get a bonus of 17.5% every month for the four-month period, while Misbah-ul-Haq, Ahmed Shehzad andBilawal Bhatti will get 10%. Pakistan Cricket News: Afridi, Umar Akmal among players penalised for poor fitness | ESPN Cricinfo
Re: Afridi, Umar Akmal among players penalised for poor fitness
Can’t believe Gul has passed the test and 40 years OLD midbah
**
Test Result
**
Players who did not clear the test: Sharjeel Khan, Mohammad Talha, Ehsan Adil, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Mohammad Irfan, Shoaib Maqsood, Shahid Afridi, Umar Akmal, Raza Hasan, Abdur Rehman, Khurram Manzoor, Haris Sohail
*=left]Players who cleared the test: Mohammad Hafeez, Junaid Khan, Younis Khan, Asad Shafiq, Rahat Ali, Zulfiqar Babar, Fawad Alam, Anwar Ali, Azhar Ali, Umar Gul, Adnan Akmal
*=left]Players who were rewarded for their fitness: Misbah-ul-Haq, Ahmed Shehzad, Shan Masood, Umar Amin, Bilawal Bhatti
*=left]Absentees: Nasir Jamshed, Wahab Riaz, Saeed Ajmal
:k: