One of India’s most harmful batsman Virender Sehwag isn’t an enormous fan of BCCI modern-day health parameters and feels the emphasis ought to fairly be on the person’s expertise than the result of their Yo-Yo test.
Trying to show his level, Sehwag took the instance of former India greats like VVS Laxman and Sourav Ganguly and said that they not often used to attain the health test but they excelled of their division.
“I won’t agree with all of this, if these criteria existed before, Tendulkar, Laxman, and Ganguly wouldn’t have passed it. During my time, we had such a test, where they always fell short of the 12.5 mark,” Sehwag informed Cricbuzz.
Adding extra insights, Sehwag mentioned: “Skill is important, today if you are playing a fit team but don’t have the skills, then you would ultimately end up losing. Play them based on their skills, slowly you can improve their fitness over time but if is yo-yo criteria is applied straight away, then the talks are different. If a player can field and bowl 10 overs, that should be enough, we shouldn’t be concerned about the other things.”
“I want to tell you one thing, here we are talking about yo-yo Test, Hardik Pandya doesn’t have issues with running, he has issues with workload because of his bowling. However, Ashwin and (Varun) Chakravarthy, on the other hand, haven’t cleared the yo-yo Test, that’s why they aren’t here,” the previous India opener concluded.
Meanwhile, Ishant Sharma, group’s premier seamer within the red-ball format, not too long ago mentioned health being a key aspect within the Indian cricket group and the way the group seems upto skipper Virat Kohli on this division.
“He [Kohli] has set an example for everyone. Take the case of fat percentage – before him, I had never heard of it being spoken about in the Indian team. It was totally about skill. But now, along with skill, it is also about fitness,”Ishant informed ESPNcricinfo.
“So if you eat well, you stay strong in the field, maintain your fitness, your energy. After what he did for himself, totally changed the system in the Indian team,” the seamer added.
