Ilyas Beg: A few cricket selectees have stomach trouble (7 July 1997)

07 July 1997

A few cricket selectees have stomach trouble

By Ilyas Beg

LAHORE, July 6: Some cricketers of the Sri Lanka-bound Pakistan team were bitten by "belly bug" a few days ago. Those included the only wicketeeper of the side Moin Khan.

When this reporter contacted late on Sunday night, the physiotherapist of the team Dr Dan Kiesel said: "Thank God! they have sufficiently recovered. Now I see no problem."

The foreign expert, Dr Dan Kiesel, who has been looking after the Pakistan team members for a few years now said that he was looking forward to make the players gain "peak physical fitness" in three weeks time after returning from Sri Lanka so that they could give away their best during the Sahara Cup Cricket Tournament in Toronto in September. While replying to a question, Dr Dan Kiesel said: "Inzimam-ul-Haq has been taking keen interest in running and training. All the boys look well tuned up for the four-nation fourth Asia Cup Cricket Tournament. I am a perfectionist and so, I am seldom fully satisfied with the condition of the boys. I want the boys to gain a high level of fitness before the Sahara Cup. That will facilitate the players to face the rigours of the hectic cricket season which includes two Test series against South Africa and the West Indies and a host of one-day international matches."

Before leaving for England as captain of the Pakistan "A" cricket team, Test batsman Muhammad Wasim had told this reporter that some boys (and he himself was among them) had been having stomach-problems due to very hot and sultry weather of Lahore and the water of this city.

Source:: Dawn (https://dawn.com/)