Selectors are concerned as some key members of the Bangladesh national cricket team failed to take their fitness to a desired level in a camp that ended earlier this week.
Trainer Stuart Karpinen on Thursday submitted his data, obtained from certain fitness tests, which showed at least six players, some of whom are very crucial for the side, fared very poorly.
Shahriar Nafees, Mashrafee bin Murtaza, Shamsur Rahman, Sohag Gazi, Elias Sunny and Ziaur Rahman appeared to be the backbenchers in the fitness camp, raising concern.
‘We completed a fitness camp that helped us create a database on each individual player,’ said chief selector Akram Khan. ‘Though some did well like skipper Mishfiqur Rahim and his deputy Mahumudullah, still there are a few who had failed.’
‘It is a concern as we are considering some of them for the New Zealand series,’ said Akram.
‘I hope when the camp will resume, the remaining players who had failed to live up to expectation will raise their fitness levels as we are emphasising on that expect.
‘And on the same note all the players will make sure they maintained the fitness level that they have achieved in this camp,’ he said.
The BCB began the fitness camp with some 30 players aiming to make an assessment over the fitness of players, an important aspect that often gets overlooked.
The players had to undergo certain measurement tests which included the anthropometric measurement or fat measurement and movement measurements.
Some sophisticated devices, including speed light gun, were used to measure the fitness of players, who were initially placed in two categories – the ones who have weight problems in one category and the others in another category.
In the end it appeared that the overweight players were mostly the ones lagging behind.
-With New Age input
