Ambati Rayudu, Sanju Samson, and Mohammad Shami were informed about Yo-Yo test after their respective team selection. All these three players got dropped after they failed to clear the Yo-Yo test.
Meanwhile, the lack of communication between Indian team management and BCCI has raised further confusion.
Sanju Samson was dropped from India A team after he failed to clear the Yo-Yo test. Furthermore, Shami was shown the exit doors from the one-off Test match against Afghanistan. In the recent events, Ambati Rayudu failed to come up good in the fitness test for the England tour.
Recently, on the basis of their low Yo Yo scores, batsman Sanju Samson was dropped from the India A team for the tour of England, fast bowler Mohammed Shami for the one-off Test against Afghanistan and batsman Ambati Rayudu in India’s ODI squad for the tour of England.
The decision to put the players selected for Indian teams (excluding under-19) was taken by the Indian team management last year. The National Cricket Academy (NCA) also came on board. But the BCCI is not in full comprehension of the two fitness-related tests. The chairman of the NCA Board, Niranjan Shah, said: “We don’t know what’s going on.’’
A BCCI senior official said “no comments’’ to a particular query on the two advanced tests conducted by the support staff of the Indian team. However, the official said that the BCCI members have not been communicated about the decision taken by the Indian team management and NCA.
Another BCCI official, well-versed with such matters, said, “These are policy matters that cannot be taken independent of the BCCI. No one is against the players being asked to reach a high standard of fitness. But it’s obligatory of the BCCI to tell its members about the Yo Yo tests before the start of the cricket season.
“The States will put in place a system for its Ranji Trophy teams and the cricketers will be better prepared. The Yo Yo test scores of all the players have to be displayed on the BCCI website.’’
A person who has understood the outcome of the Yo Yo and Dexa tests, and has closely watched it evolve in the last few months, believes that today’s international cricket is exacting and a player has to be in top fitness. It’s said that India’s fielding coach R.Sridhar, at 47, achieves a score of 16.
“Ankit Vaishnav”
