Pakistan are under orders to improve their fitness levels to ensure they can do themselves justice at this winter's ICC World Twenty20.
Assistant coach Mushtaq Ahmed insisted there were "no excuses" after the hosts' second successive defeat by England, but added physical fitness, rather than cricketing skill, is the main concern.
Despite that, Pakistan opted not to train at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium before the last match of the Twenty20 series.
Shahid Afridi's team trail 2-0 and will therefore be playing for pride on Monday having come up short in both games at the Dubai International Stadium.
After the second of those, Mushtaq said: "The basics were not done by our players. We have to take some responsibility.
"We try to teach them and give them full information, but it goes down to the system."
A succession of run-outs, some of them comically inept, have cost Pakistan dear against England in both the preceding one-day international and then Twenty20 series defeats.
Mushtaq added: "If someone gets to know, in international cricket, which hand to hold the bat in (when running) - and that you don't have to look at the ball but at your partner - then that's quite a worrying thing.
"We are number two in Twenty20 because we have skilled players but we are maybe lacking in fitness and fielding.
"If you analyse (modern cricket), then it's a fitness game.
"A good catch or stopping a boundary (can put you in) a winning situation."
Pakistan did not practise any of that on Sunday, despite Mushtaq's pointed remarks.
He added: "You have to face the reality that you have to raise our game.
"As coaches, we have to improve the performance.
"If a player is not fit but is skilful . in today's game you need fitness.
"If after taking a couple of twos, you can't (then) hit a boundary off a bad ball, that's a problem.
"So we have to hold fitness camps."
England also did not hold a conventional practice session of the eve of their final match on tour, preferring instead to play football through one hour of morning training at Dubai Sport City.
Source: PA
