Younis: I am under no pressure

"I have never run after the captaincy. It was offered to me number of times in the past and I didn't accept it because of various reasons. This time I accepted the captaincy because I felt I could do something good for the team," Younis Khan said.

"But the captaincy has never been a big issue for me and my job is only to try to get the best performances out of the team and ensure they give good results," he said.

"The way cricket is run in Pakistan is funny and a quiz. When we won the T20 World Cup everyone was praising my captaincy. We had one bad series in Sri Lanka and the guns are turned towards me."

"This is not a threat for me at all. Because we have a good equation and we worked closely in the T20 World Cup. As far as the appointment of vice-captain or team officials is concerned I have no issues with the board."

"The first phase will be held from September one to four and we will focus purely on physical training. We will then take a break and then have another four to five days training camp purely for batting and bowling before we leave on Sept 17 from Karachi for South Africa," he said

"But I will definitely ask the Board to have these camps at small centres and not at Lahore and Karachi where they are too many distractions for the players."

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