File photo of Indian team during a fitness test in England. (Instagram)

New Delhi: The Bronco Test has discussed a lot in the Indian cricket set-up. The introduction of the Bronco Test of the rugby-style in the Indian cricket system by the current Indian power and conditioning coach Adrian Le Rukes has received mixed reactions.Former India off-spinner R Ashwin and mythological South African cricketer AB de Villiers called it a “big problem” and said that it is going to be a lot of “demand” for cricketers.“This is one of the worst, which you can,” de Villiers said on his YouTube channel. Former India cricketer R Ashwin highlighted the challenges and complications of transition from one training system to one training system on YouTube’s Bat Podcast on YouTube.He said: “When an instructor changes, the test mechanism changes, the training scheme changes. It is a major problem for a player. In fact, in many cases, it can also cause injuries. And this is. And this is. Because I had passed through a cycle from 2017 to 2019, I was looking for my training skima because I was constantly injured.”What is Bronco Test?The Bronco Test, mainly adopted by rugby teams, has frequent shuttle runs at a distance of 20, 40 and 60 meters. In the test, the runner sprints after completing 240 meters in a set – 0 to 60 meters and back, then 40 meters and back, 20 meters and back. Complete tests include five such sets, adding up to 1,200 meters without rest without comfort.Ramji Srinivasan, who was India’s strength and conditioning coaches during the 2011 World Cup, feels that there was a great need for Bronco Test in the Indian cricket system.“Bronco is a running-based fitness test, originally,” Ramji explains Timesofindia.com in a special interview.“(It has been used for a long time by rugby teams and most rugby teams as it is a constant, sharp, endurance, which is of good intensity. And you need to cover the distance in a particular time limit.“This gives you your aerobic fitness value and your fatigue index price, your ore -based limit price. But at the same time, it does not let you read on your explosive power, or your reactive strength, or your flexibility or your balance or stability or your acceleration. It does not give you those readings.“And there is no way to cheat. You cannot cut the corners here. It is all time-on. Within a certain time period, you have to finish. If you want to live at an elite level of the athlete or a lot of players claim to be at an aristocratic level, you have to finish under 4 minutes 30 seconds, which you can calibrate as an athlete-ethle. Therefore, it clearly demarcates your fitness level, where you should be, and gives you a very realistic picture of what a player needs to improve, “he explains.New S&C coaches, new methods

File photo of Soham Desai. (Video Grab)

Former India’s strength and conditioning coach Soham Desai, who was part of which Team The set-up for five years before Adrian Le Rukes replaces him says that this is just another fitness test.“In India, there is no set structure or no prescribed criteria,” he tells the timesofindia.com.“Adrian has come in. Now, we cannot blame him or we cannot say why the Adrian has brought a new test. It has been introduced because the Adrian is comfortable with that test. All these things are equipment.“Bronco is something that is mainly used in rugby settings or rugby environment because their game is such that their system is such that they have been doing it for years. And this is something that you do not need to audio, you do not need any tool to conduct the test. You can just put two cones, you have a stopwatch, you are good to go.“So, I have also done that with boys or even Adrian must have done this with boys that it is a broncho test, because for them there is just a conditioning training session,” he says.“Adrian is familiar with the test. And he wants to use the test to assess a player’s fitness. Nothing is right or wrong about it.“This is just a question of a coach being comfortable in a special way. There is nothing to read between lines or nothing that is taking us somewhere.”The end of the road for Rohit and Shami?

Rohit Sharma’s file photo in a practice session. (Getty image)

Ramji Srinivasan believes that Bronco Test is going to be difficult for the aging superstar Mohammed Shami And Rohit Sharma,He says, “The reading of a 19 -year -old boy on Bronco will be completely different from a 37 -year -old man (reading).”“Players who require a separate cut-off point, separate standardization for 35-Aand-Above. Because they have been playing for years, they can take swallows, their body cannot respond. We must have a separate standardization for those who are above 30.“I think it’s a good thing for a 20 -year -old youth, but you can’t compare him to a 40 -year -old player,” he warns.Is Bronco a selection criteria?

Adrian Le Rukes during a tour of England with India. (Instagram)

Desai believes that the Bronco Test is not going to be a selection parameter, nor was the Yo-Yo test after the 2019 ODI World Cup.“Bronco is not a test in which a player will be selected or not. Nor is it the case with Yo-Yo,” he says.“During the time of Virat Kohli, Ravi Shastri, he directed Shankar Basu to get fitness at the leading level in the 2019 World Cup.“Those numbers were agreed with all the stakeholders involved and they wanted to keep it a serious matter so that people going to the 2019 World Cup would come to a special level and then we 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. But it was not a selection criteria. It is a fitness assessment parameter where we as a coach, people working in NCA (COE of BCCI), get an idea, a snapshot about their fitness,” he said.Why, unlike Yo-Yo test, you can’t cheat in bronze?

Former Shakti and Conditioning Coach of the Indian team Ramji Srinivasan has appreciated the move to bring into the Bronco Test as part of assessing the fitness level of senior men side players. (IANS)

In a shocking revelation, Srinivasan says that cricketers would not be able to cheat in Bronco as they used to cut corners in yo-yo testing.Ramji says, “Yo-Yo has a lot of variables.”“First of all, where you do yo-yo, whether you are doing it indoors or outside, that is one. Secondly, the land situation, which land, where you are doing. For example, two or three plains next to each other can have different surfaces. So, what you do in a ground, the ground A, the next test you go to Ground B, the reading may be different. It may be more or it may be reduced. You cannot standardize it. So, you have to do it on the land where you have done it to get standardization.“Third, the type of surface, whether you are doing it on the grass, whether you are doing it on red soil, whether you are doing it on the ground, the original surface matters.“Fourth is your humidity factor. What is the level of humidity when you are testing? The fifth season is your weather, whether you are doing it in the morning, afternoon, evening or late night, they matter.“And you can steal inch and there in the Yo-Yo test. Bronco is really difficult-tingling. As long as you are at a good fitness level, you can be injured when you try to push. You can be injured. You have to be on a good fitness level to bronze. You know, it’s not just a test for weak hearts,” he said.