{"id":191688,"date":"2026-07-08T18:25:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=191688"},"modified":"2026-07-08T18:25:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:55:52","slug":"fitness-remains-a-concern-for-this-pakistan-team-sarfaraz-ahmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=191688","title":{"rendered":"Fitness remains a concern for this Pakistan team: Sarfaraz Ahmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-71198887\">Pakistan\u2019s Test team head coach Sarfaraz Ahmed has admitted that fitness issues still remains a concern in the national side ahead of its upcoming tours of the Caribbean and England.<\/p>\n<p>Sarfaraz told the media here on Wednesday that fitness issues had cropped up during the month-long red-ball training camp in Lahore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the fitness issues were resolved during the camp but some still remain and we will have another short conditioning camp in Islamabad from tomorrow (Thursday) and try to sort them out as well,\u201d he said without elaborating further.<\/p>\n<p>Sarfaraz said he had spoken to new Test captain Babar Azam and he was confident that he skipper would deliver on the coming tours.<\/p>\n<p>The former Pakistan captain said that Babar carried a lot of experience behind his back and having remained captain before he knew about the challenges up ahead.<\/p>\n<p><b>ALSO READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/new-zealand-cricket-central-contracts-casual-deal-list-full-list-of-players\/article71197435.ece\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Allen, Ferguson, Seifert, Milne take up casual contract deal with New Zealand<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Babar this week told a Pakistan Cricket Board podcast that he would emphasise on fitness and discipline as captain as both these were important to get performances on the field.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan will be playing two Tests in the Caribbean and three in England in July, August and early September.<\/p>\n<p>Babar also admitted that Pakistan needed to step up its game in the ICC World Test Championship\u2019s remaining matches as despite the influx of white ball cricket a player was defined by his performances in red-ball cricket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on Jul 08, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/sarfaraz-ahmed-pakistan-head-coach-fitness-concerns-west-indies-england-test-tours-quotes-latest-news\/article71198887.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s Test team head coach Sarfaraz Ahmed has admitted that fitness issues still remains a concern in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":191689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/TH18-PCB-SARFARG5TF69BSK.4.jpg.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":191634,"url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=191634","url_meta":{"origin":191688,"position":0},"title":"Shan Masood\u2019s leadership, game-management issues behind Babar Azam\u2019s captaincy return","author":"Ajay Kumar Verma","date":"July 8, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Senior Pakistan Cricket Board selector Aaqib Javed has blamed sacked Test captain Shan Masood and the team management for the recurring leadership and game-management issues, saying they were the reason behind bringing back Babar Azam as captain in the longest format. 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