Sunil Gavaskar on BCCI reintroducing Yo-Yo tests - watsupptoday.com
Sunil Gavaskar on BCCI reintroducing Yo-Yo tests
Posted 09 Jan 2023 01:11 PM

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Date :- 09-01-2023
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Legendary India batter Sunil Gavaskar said that fitness should be a prime consideration for Team India. Gavaskar’s comments come after BCCI reintroduced the ‘Yo-Yo’ test as a selection criterion. Writing for Mid Day, Gavaskar said fitness is an individual thing with no one size fitting all, stressing that it can be rough when fitness parameters are set collectively rather than individually. “The point am trying to make is fitness is an individual thing and there is no such thing as one size fits all. The quick bowlers need a different level than the spinners, the wicket keepers need an even higher level and the batters perhaps the least. So it’s rough when the parameters are set for everybody and not according to one’s specialty”. The former India captain said cricket fitness should be the prime consideration for Team India, adding that their yo-yo tests results being public is also a positive. "Cricket fitness should be the prime consideration. And yes, it would be revealing if these fitness tests are done in the public domain with the media present for then we would know if a player is ‘yo yo’ or no no”. He went on to say that it is better to have experts in the selection panel than former cricketers.“The CAC has just interviewed candidates for the selection committee panel, but not one was a bio-mechanics expert or a body science person. Since eligibility is going to be based on the fitness of a player, it might be better to have these experts in the selection panel than former cricketers,”. He said that the experts would be able to make a choice between players taking their fitness into consideration. "After all if it comes to a choice between two players for a spot in the team these experts would be in a better position to tell which among the two is fitter than the other and never mind the runs scored or wickets taken by the two players”.

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