Waqar Younis and his colleague Aaqib Javed looked more like football coaches as they put the Pakistani players through their paces, blowing whistles to direct them
Waqar Younisu00a0and his colleague Aaqib Javed looked more like football coaches as they put the Pakistani players through their paces, blowing whistles to direct them.
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| Shoaib Akhtar does some boxing drills in Mohali. PIC/AFP |
The Pakistan team's practice in this World Cup has been radically different from their previous nets sessions.
The drills include a variety of activities like kickboxing, spot jumping with weights, hurdle race, high jump and training with the medicine ball. Even the football games they played among themselves were different from those that one might have seen at the Indian team's training sessions.
In fact, watching the Men in Green go through the drills, one got the feeling that it was an army camp, not a cricket practice. So much so, that there was nothing to do with the cricket ball at all.
"We want variety in our practice. If you looked at our practice, you would have watched different things. There is no monotony," Younis told SUNDAY MiD DAY on Saturday.
"We take it day by day, and think about a match only on that particular day. That is how we have progressed in this World Cup," all-rounder Mohd Hafeez said. "If we play our best on that day, then we have a chance to win against India."
