PCB calls up all centrally contracted players for fitness and skills camps

KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) called up all centrally contracted players, along with a few others, for a fitness and a skills camp ahead of the national team’s tour of England.

The fitness camp and testing will take place on April 9 and 10 after which the national squad will be finalized.

Then the selected players will participate in the skills camp, which will be held from April 11 to 23.

At the end the skill camp, the national squad will likely to leave the country at the end of this month to play in Ireland, England and Scotland.

Pakistan will begin their tour with a four-day warm-up match against county side Kent before taking on Ireland in a historic Test on April 11, with the one-off Test being the first-ever played by the minnows.

Then Pakistan will come back to England for a two-test series, followed by two Twenty20 internationals with Scotland.

Middle-order batsman Fawad Alam, who has been ignored for the last two years despite a consistent performance at both domestic and international levels, has also been called up for the camp