When it comes to fitness testing, The Big Players Facing Challenges Said- I Can’t Change My Body Structure. Not everyone is going to be skinny. Azam Khan, Rahkeem Cornwall, Sisanda Magala and Lizelle Lee tell us.
This Piece took me close to two Years:-
As a sports writer and a yoga teacher, I’m obsessed with the body and one of the pieces I love to write is about image, fitness, and shape. This piece took me close to two years and I am very proud of it.
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“It’s not about being overweight. It’s about performance”
How strict is it when it comes to fitness testing, and what challenges do the big players face?
Not exactly the kind of inspirational message you’d find in Notes to Strangers posted—it’s strewn around the London subway—but Azam Khan chose to immortalize those words anyway.
He wrote them on pieces of paper and pasted them on his wall. He used to see them every day.” My dad was like, ‘Are you crazy, why are you doing this to yourself?’ “I said, ‘This is motivating me’,” Azam told Cricket Monthly.
Azam got his first professional gig at the age of 20:-
Azam is the son of former Pakistan captain Moin Khan, who is known for his athleticism among other things. Moin is also the coach of Quetta Gladiators, the PSL team where Azam got his first professional gig at the age of 20.
Talk about nepotism. He played only one game for them in the 2019 PSL season and scored 12 runs in 15 balls. Cue criticism that his lack of runs (he had four List A innings for 53 runs at the start of the domestic season) was a direct result of his size.
Both the allegations hurt Azam so much that he made a written record in his private place, “People will always judge me because my father played for Pakistan but it is not my fault that I was born in his house,”
says Azam, now 24. “But after I got my chance in the PSL, people criticized me because I was overweight and said my body was not suited for the elite game [level] of cricket.”
Azam has a befitting reply. “It’s not about being overweight. It’s about performance. If one guy is scoring 400 and he’s super-fit and another guy is scoring 800 and he’s not super-fit, I Will keep the guy who scored 800 runs in the team. That’s my approach.
Cornwall says the answer is yes. “Not everyone is going to be slim and trim and not everyone is going to look ripped. Not everyone is going to be short, not everyone is going to be tall.
It has reached the level of acceptance:-
Whichever formation you come in, you have to monitor it and make sure you finish the day’s game and make sure you do well for your team.”
It has reached the level of acceptance. “A lot of people, especially big and tall people, tell me that I’m representative of big and tall people.
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And all I can tell them is don’t make anyone feel uncomfortable because you don’t.” If you know what you can do and you want to do it, don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do it. can not do.”
