Team India players, including OD Skipper Rohit Sharma, completed routine fitness assessment at the BCCI Center of Excellence in Bangalore. In particular, the Yo-Yo was part of the test session, but the bronco drill was not used, and the Bronco Testing could make its debut during the upcoming Asia Cup 2025 in Dubai.
Team India Cricketers recently participated in a fitness evaluation at the BCCI’s Center of Excellence in Bangalore. The yo-yo test was conducted as part of the routine. In particular, India will start its international work with the Asia Cup 2025, which is scheduled to begin on 9 September.
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The Indian squad conducted health check-ups, agility drills and yo-yo tests during its fitness camp in Bangalore, but did not include the evaluation of the recommended brones recommended by the new strength and conditioning coach Adrian Le Rukes.
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According to the Times of India report, the team can be tested even after assembling the Asia Cup in Dubai. The players are designed to depart late on 3 September, whose first training session is scheduled on 5 September at the ICC Academy.
“This can happen when the squad gathers in Dubai for the Asia Cup. The team will start leaving late (on the morning of 4 September) and will be its first session at the ICC Academy on 5 September. So if the management and S&C want to assess Bronco, it can happen in Dubai. If all this happens, a source told India’s Times.
BCCI insisted on aristocratic fitness as the players have to undergo rigorous trials ahead of the Asia Cup.
The Bronco Test is not a selection parameter, but all centrally contracted and targeted players will have to undergo fitness checks before major assignments, especially after extended breaks.
Players returning from the England Test series were later selected for the Asia Cup, which leads from India’s domestic matches against the West Indies and a white ball tour of Australia.
The Bronco Test is a severe patient drill that includes frequent sprints without a break without 20, 40, and 60 meters. It assesses heart ability, agility, stamina and mental cruelty.
The setup is simple, requiring only four cones, but it pushes the players to their limits with a continuous shuttle run. In particular, BCCI is emphasizing elite conditioning to ensure that the players are maintained to maintain high-spurry efforts, whether sprinting or chasing in the field between wickets.
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Former India’s strength and conditioning coach Soham Desai said that fitness benchmarks develop on the basis of leadership. In a conversation with the Times of India, Desai recalled the tenure of Virat Kohli and Ravi Shastri.
“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 involved, and they wanted to have a serious relationship so that the leading people in the 2019 World Cup come to a special level, and then we play the World Cup. It was a full vision. That is why those numbers were agreed and shared and it became a selection criteria.”
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