Aussie 'soldiers' head to camp
Dan Koch reports in The Australian about Australia’s pre-season bootcamp , which is the idea of John Buchanan and will be supervised by a former SAS soldier.
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
Dan Koch reports in The Australian about Australia’s pre-season bootcamp, which is the idea of John Buchanan and will be supervised by a former SAS soldier.
Australia’s elite players will be deprived of food, sleep and water and put under severe stress on a torturous military-style boot camp starting today to kick off their preparations for the Ashes series. Reputations will count for nothing, as some of the biggest names in world cricket are pushed to their physical and mental limits and beyond. The camp, which will operate for four to six days, will be run by a former member of the SAS regiment, Eben Jefford, who developed the punishing program in conjunction with Chris Haseman, a former tactical operations instructor with the Queensland police force.
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Peter English is former Australasia editor of ESPNcricinfo