PCB medical panel is planning to make blood and eye tests mandatory for players 4 times a year

The Pakistan Cricket Board‘s (PCB) medical panel is planning to make blood and eye exams necessary for gamers 4 occasions a yr, as soon as cricket actions resume put up the COVID-19 pandemic.

A senior official of PCB’s medical panel stated that presently the contracted gamers needed to endure blood exams and eye scans each six months.

“However because of the altering scenario due to the coronavirus pandemic we’re planning to introduce exams not less than 4 occasions in 12 months,” he stated.

He stated blood exams and eye scans had been necessary for gamers and this follow must be elevated as soon as cricket actions



resume as a result of the scenario on the planet has modified because of the pandemic.

He defined whereas blood exams had been for well being causes, eye scans had been achieved as imaginative and prescient performs an enormous half in a cricketer’s reflex and timing.

The PCB is about to announce a pool of round 30 gamers on Wednesday, who shall be known as for a quarantined coaching camp in Lahore on the nationwide excessive efficiency centre to arrange for the tour of England in July.

Pakistan’s head coach and chief selector, Misbah-ul-Haq is planning to take some 25 gamers to England for 3 Checks and as many T20 matches.