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Pakistan head coach Aaqib Javed, while addressing the press conference ahead of the 2nd Test against West Indies:
“If you look into Test cricket, and if you play all three formats, you end up bowling a lot in a Test series. You might have to bowl around 25-30 overs, and then you don’t play four-day cricket for three months. So, when you come back to Test matches, your body isn’t ready. That’s why fast bowlers struggle; when they bowl 20 overs in a day, it’s tough to get the tail-enders out when the energy levels drop.”
“If Shaheen Shah Afridi was playing instead of Mohammad Abbas, you wouldn't have gotten so close to winning the match because of him coming back after three years. Now all these bowlers need to be targeted; since a Test match is coming up, we should play some leagues and get into that kind of cricket. We also need to play four-day cricket before the Test match to boost our stamina to that level.”
“If you look into Test cricket, and if you play all three formats, you end up bowling a lot in a Test series. You might have to bowl around 25-30 overs, and then you don’t play four-day cricket for three months. So, when you come back to Test matches, your body isn’t ready. That’s why fast bowlers struggle; when they bowl 20 overs in a day, it’s tough to get the tail-enders out when the energy levels drop.”
“If Shaheen Shah Afridi was playing instead of Mohammad Abbas, you wouldn't have gotten so close to winning the match because of him coming back after three years. Now all these bowlers need to be targeted; since a Test match is coming up, we should play some leagues and get into that kind of cricket. We also need to play four-day cricket before the Test match to boost our stamina to that level.”
