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Originally Posted by King Aragorn According to The News, Woolmer has given quite a rousing talk to the available Pakistani players about the importance of mental strength, fitness and fielding just before the three day trial match. Of late, Woolmer has been doing quite a lot of work to prepare for the English tour and has also been assessing the strength of upcoming Pakistani players. |
I'm delighted to hear that. I'm unsatisfied with our performances in all those 3 spheres, i.e. fielding, fitness and mental strength and hopefully the words of wisdom will be heared carefully by the players, and acted upon in future.
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As to the selection of the final squad for the tour, it seems that Pakistan will play at least three warm up matches in October to prepare for the English tour. Hence, Umar Gul will surely be able to get fully match fit even if he doesn't play now.
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Briiliant. Can't look forward enough to get to know more on Umar Gul's progress, he'd be a great asset to us for the England series if he can get him bowling as well as he was last time India came here. We should play more then 3 warm up matches if we get the chance, it's always good to play a few matches ahead of a big season like we have...some of our players, especially those who will not play in the the Super Series, or who missed the Afro Asian Cup or those who have not played county cricket might well found them selves a bit rusty. I hope though even then that they've been doing some mild training off season as well.
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It might be a good idea to give Shabbir Ahmad a game though because even though his action has been changed to meet the ICC rules, Woolmer feels that he might just naturally revert to his original (and flawed) action in a pressure situation.
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Totally agree with that as well. Bob's a smart man
. I hope Shabbir's action is clear this time (last time it was blatantly illegal) because I don't know how many more remodelling he'd be able to survive, he's already had at least three in his stop-start-stop-start career so far. He could be an important bowler for us if he can sort all this out for once, someone his height can always be a dangerous bowler. Especially on the slow tracks here.