Compared to world standards, India’s Yo-Yo marker was not harsh, but even then many superstars found it difficult to pass the evaluation between the dreaded cones in Indian cricket. (Image Credit: BCCI)

New Delhi: During his time as captain and head coach of the Indian cricket team, Virat Kohli and Ravi Shastri respectively made it clear that Yo-yo test There was to live and there were signs that the bar would be highly raised for the 2019 World Cup. The marker began in the early 16s – 16.1 – and later increased to challenge a player’s fitness and readiness. There was no ambiguity as a lot of players, who missed the cut, they were not considered for selection.Cut by 2025 and the line has been blurred, if not completely erased. These fitness tests are no longer a selection criteria and only seem to be formalities. The moment Kohli and Shastri made way for the new leadership, the backburner adopted different means and methods to carry forward the stern yo-yo evaluation. Compared to world standards, India’s Yo-Yo marker was not harsh, but even then many superstars found it difficult to pass the evaluation between the dreaded cones in Indian cricket.Explained: What is Bronco Test?Instead of raising the overall fitness standards, attention was transferred to meditation management. There are some examples of players undergoing yo-yo tests and in 2023, before the Asia Cup, that it was again back into the news. Kohli posted his score of 17.2 on Instagram before asking not to share any “confidential” information, and a similar instruction was issued to other centrally contracted players.Yo-Yo test is no longer discussed as some players, influential people argued that they manage their body in a different way and would not want to risk the intensity of the test in the 30s. The lines were further blurred as the “intentions” became new buzzwords and fitness tests were easily pushed to the backseat with an excuse “preventing injury”.

It also fell into domestic squads. Many state associations became generous with fitness assessment and half-fit players continued to play for their respective parties and consequently caused the cricketers to break the mid-season. The associations first followed the 16.5 mark as a cut-off for Yo-Yo, but the Kohli-Shastri era also showed generosity by selecting those who posted as 14 as 14, there was no strict instructions from the Indian Cricket Board.In the last few weeks, who is among Indian cricket, converted to BCCI’s Center of Excellence (Coe), but it was more for optics than serving a big goal of being a fit core, no punishment.Reports covering the Dalip Trophy Games at the venue were not allowed to see the fitness tests of major Indian cricketers. However, these were hardly fitness tests that everyone was expecting from them. Players and people conducting “tests” did not clearly want a regular exercise – a hogwash. The confidentiality that the Indian Cricket Board kept was for a lack of better words, checked! BCCI has spent hundreds of crores on the new CO, but is it just a rehabilitation center? Fitness enhancement seems to be on the agenda.“There are people who hold their hearts at the right place for Indian cricket, but some strong voices have constantly silenced Yo-Yo and Fitness Chatter. Not only Yo-Yo, but also 2 km run test. There was a time when the Yo-Yo marker was raised to further enhance the standards, but now it has become a regular jog between the cone, adding the surrounding sound with the beep, “a source tracking developments said.“When there are no results, why will people take it seriously? The aging superstars will prove their” match fitness “and hide behind” managing their bodies “, but it is not helping develop the Indian cricket ecosystem,” he said.In a chat with Timesofindia.com Former India’s power and conditioning coach Soham Desai explained how these tests were never selected norms after the Shastri-Kohli regime ended.“During the time of Virat Kohli, Ravi Shastri, he instructed Shankar Basu to get fitness at the leading level in the 2019 World Cup. Those numbers were agreed with all the stakeholders and they wanted to keep it a serious matter so that the 2019 World Cup people would come to a special level and then play the World Cup. That was the whole vision. So those numbers were agreed and shared and it became a selection norm.“But after that, we have done a yo-yo test three times a year for almost all contracted players every year. But it was not a selection criteria. It is a fitness assessment parameter where we get an idea as people working in NCA, as people working in NCA, a snapshot about their fitness at that particular level,” he said.Over the years, a person can see a clear difference in the approach during the team’s practice sessions. Acute shuttle runs, sprints and laps are followed by a certain group panting for breath, while some slow chilling, stretching and focusing are just one day before saying on their “acute” batting session.But is this ahead?Will the fitness parameter require strict and injury management when found?These Indian Cricket Board, Team Management are questions whether they do not want 40 acres facilities in Bengaluru to remain a center for rehabilitation.