Some changes have been made in the itinerary of Pakistan’snext month tour of Bangladesh due to TV coverage problems
21-Dec-2001Some changes have been made in the itinerary of Pakistan’snext month tour of Bangladesh due to TV coverage problems.Pakistan will play two Tests and three One-Day Internationalmatches in Bangladesh.The manager of the Pakistan cricket team Yawar Saeed said onThursday that the team now would depart for Bangladesh onJan2 instead of Jan 3. The last two One-Day matches will nowbe held on Dec 24 and 25 instead of Dec 25 and 26. The teamwill return home on Dec 26 instead of 27, Yawar said.He said that the change was necessitated due to aninternational football tournament starting at Dhaka fromJan26. He said that the organisers were facing TV coverageproblems of the cricket matches due to football ties,therefore, the itinerary had been changed.Meanwhile, training camp for the team resumed at the GaddafiStadium on Thursday. Except Shoaib Akhtar and vice-captainInzamam-ul-Haq, the other 14 members of the Pakistan teamattended the camp.Yawar pointed out that Shoaib Akhtar was coming to Pakistanfrom Australia and he was likely to join the camp in coupleof days.Inzamam-ul-Haq was facing family problems at home and he wasalso expected to join the camp on Friday, Yawar said. Hesaid that the camp training would be held in two sessions.The morning session will be held at a local health clubwhere the boys would do physical exercises and swimming. Theevening session will be held at the Gaddafi Stadium from1.30pm.He said that the former paceman Sikandar Bakht had beenappointed as the analyst. He hoped that enough data aboutthe bowlers and the batsmen of the other teams would begathered before the next World Cup-2003.Yawar Saeed said that the Pakistan team will hold a six weektraining camp at Abbotabad in August before hosting theAustralia next year.