YoYo Test In Cricket!

Fitness and Cricket
(Yo Yo Test in cricket to prove the fitness and its minuses and pluses )
The game cricket is running in the year 144 and in the year 2017 a new trend enters in the game that is- ‘Fitness of the cricketers’ . Yes the fitness is quite essential for the players but here need to see the nature of the game that what kind of the Exercises need for the player . Cricket is the royal game . It means the luxurious and lavishness are its envious parts. And cricket is the game of high skills and intelligence . And here the technique is more important than the physical power. And it was running for the years that created history not by power but by the skills . But with the technological development the gym custom started where through machines the doers sweat out in the hall or gymnasium. In the game cricket light exercises have been preferred and done regularly by the cricketers to keep fit and sound. But in the recent period too much and hard exercising culture is adopted and preferred in the game by the management which is not good for the game cricket. Why……. because cricket isn’t the wrestling or boxing where the players have to show power. So why is so much emphasis is given on the tough exercise cult or system . Due to this system the cricketers’ tension as well as the attention diverted towards it heavily than the real game’s skills and its development. In this extra burden’s enforcement the cricketers could not get serious and forget their original job yes batting and bowling and often remain in the psychological pressure and tension because the Cricket Board , the selectors and the management have fixed the Yo Yo Test yes the base of ultimate selection. And due to it the good technician of bat like of Sheyas Ayyar the promising and talented cricketer batsman had to ousted I mean doesn’t selected because he could not pass the Yo Yo Test . In modern cricket era too much emphasis is given on the physical exercise greater than the real game’s skills. The player chooses the game as per his hobby, choice and stamina. But too much
emphasis is given to the hard physical exercise than the real game the bowling and batting and it is dangerous for the real nature of the game . Bowling and batting are the main parts of the game and the part Fielding is the third important organ of the game . And due to T20 and F50 formats of the game the team management started preference to the athletism while it is nonsense according to me and nature of the game cricket. When you gave kept restrictions in fielding by making 30 yard circle and power play then too much preference to the fielding is not liable . By saying it I reject the YoYo Test .
In present
more importance is given to the fielding department than to the skills of batting and bowling and it can be damaging for the conservatism or the fundamental tips and skills of batting and bowling or of the game. Yes batting and bowling are the most emphatic parts of the game and yes fielding is the third emphat sector of the game but not on the cost of injuries prone and fatigue full exercise cost . Yes in this sense I do urge to the cricket coaches that they do prefer natural sweetening rather than the different non cricketing exercises and activities. Yes the fielding coach has to give only fielding and catching practice in the open ground where he can be kept so active . Cricketing activities are enough themselves to keep highly fit. So not other kinds of exercises are futile in real sense.
But now a days much preference is given to the physical exercise and fitness why ….
the point is quite thinkable ? Cricket is the royal game not the wage and boxing or wrestling where too much physical power is needed . Yes wage is itself the exercise so a labourer doesn’t have need exercise. But the wrestlers and boxers need the exercise or gym yes to increase power ,stamina . Cricket is elites’ game where you have to maintain for long periods yes 5 hours for T20 and a whole day for IDI and 5 days for the Test. Yes it is not the game likes of hockey, football, basketball where the players have to sweat out only for 90 minutes and that is in two half and the rest of 30 minutes between one half while in cricket the players have to stay for 5 days in the Test and for while day in the F50 or IDI and 5 hours in T20 in lightly manner or with less diligence . So to much exercise is dangerous for the health and it affects in the real game of longevity.
In cricket where the cricketer needs primary and secondary tips and skills of batting and bowling . If the cricketer makes runs to not have the real skills then he isn’t considered the great despite big success. Here I mean to develop the real stings . By unauthentic strokes you can’t be the great and greatest and inconsistency often affect your game. See V Sehwag whose stats are impressive but he isn’t considered in the all time great Eleven while Viv Richards , Gavaskar ,Sachin are given place in the all time great,why . It is so because there is no class and classical music and only hip-hop ir zaaz. . V Sehwag was lucky that he could play freely because behind him there was great batting line up if gets fail individually and
team the following batters would be recovered the deficit otherwise he would be ousted soon from the team because of his inconsistency . Think if the team would be depended only on V Sehwag then think what would happen ? So to keep fit the cricketers should not strained too much and pass through tough exercise schedule . Instead of different kind of Exercises the coach must have to give exercise through the play of cricket. The player who choose the game cricket as his favourite or career knows what is the nature of the game and what kind of ability ,what kind of fitness,strength he needs . See Rahkeem of West Indies who is a giant and well fitted for the wrestling, and boxing but he chose cricket and amazing he chose to be the spinner while he is so powerful man and can bowl so fast without run up but he knew being the pacer needs high stamena,fragility and power while as the spinner needs skill and less stamena and less athleticism. C Ambrose ,C Walse, J Garner could be chosen Basketball, Volleyball but they chose Cricket due to great cult of the Isle and rather than it the much stamena and power and fragility need in 90 minutes’ game while cricket is a royal and cozy game where you do not toil like these games .So they chose Cricket .
Fielding is given more importance by the coaches because through this process you can keep busy all the players in the academy and can dominate as the coach and indirectly punish the player . If consider on the fielding and fielders then it is less important than Batting and Bowling. Good fielding well is necessary but not on the cost of injury and more fatigueness . To much exercise is dangerous because all the players bodies are different but all the cricketers have to do same exercise is thinkable . In cricket there is a famous proverb ‘ Catches win the match’ and it is right but it is often seen that catches are dropped by the good fielders . It has seen that tough and unbelievable catches are held by the general fielders and easy catches are dropped by the class fielders . Yes if we observe out the history of wins and loses then only 3 percent wins came to have close margin and rest ones are with huge margin. So fielding hasn’t played much role and dropping catches are the part of the game as like the death and sorrows of the life.
And stopping runs is the essential part of the game but without runs the match can’t go ahead . A batsman hit a ball and if see closely then most of the shots go with fast speed and the fielder can’t stop it despite having Hussain Bolt ‘s athletism and speed . And to stop one run the fielder make life cost effort isn’t good for the game. No fielder want to loot out the runs and we see he-she make effort tiring or exhausting. Yeah there are lazy fielders we seen like Inzmam Ul Haq and some but it’s rare and if he/she a big batsman or bowler the team selectors overlook its fielding weakness . And it is the question that after Yo-Yo Test are the catches not dropped ? Are the runs not given ? Are the batsmen take 3 runs where only 1 run is possible ? And yes many a time the batsmen convert 1 run into 2 run but see the 2018 World Cup Semi final versus New Zealand in which Dhoni’s such attempt extinguished india’s dream to be enter in the Final . Eventually Dhoni like big athlete got run out at that crucial stage . So it is nonsense that too much attention is paid to the cricketers’ physical strength instead of batting and bowling technique. For fielding and catching the cricketer needs a general tip. And according to the situation he needs to avoid that tips . Cricket is a game of skill and if observe the heavyweight boxing and wrestling then these games are too the games of technique alongwith the physical power and intelligence. Through this logics I urge that too much heed towards the physical exercises is dangerous for the game real game . Yes for it the game cricket itself capable to give sufficient exercises. If the bowler the speedster , medium pacer or spinner bowl 10 overs in two spells continuously then it is enough for him to keep sound ,fit and healthy and through it he/she could carve itself in its particular field bowling . And if the batsman bats one hour by taking runs then he can strain a lot and the fielders have perspired with those batsmen if get practice in the ground not the Net . But for it the Net Practice Cult must be abdicated and the practice must be done only in the big ground where the and each specialist batsman would play 20 overs and if he gets out in it twice then he is out . In this way the batsman could develop his skills and such as the bowler will have 10 overs two spells but in his 1st 10 overs’ quota he has to dismiss at least 2 batsmen then he will entitle to deliver the 2 nd spell. And when the bowlers bowl and batsmen bat then the runs would also come catches would lift , drop. Yes by the fielders runs will stop and be given. The net practice is like a well froag . Greatest Sunny g
Gavaskar didn’t prefer and believe in the net practice. So outdoor practice through natural game has been preferred by the coaches and their academies. Through the natural match all players involvement could be seen . In this way integrity and harmony can keep kept. The hyper tension situation can be handle skill come all naturally. Fielding practice would come naturally . By the coach catching practice is making but we know in the match natural catches come in the different ways. There is a vast difference between natural and artificial practice.
So for the game’s sake the hard diligent test like yo-yo must be stop because due to its one good skilled and talented players are missed . The point is need to know that the cricketer is cricketer not a sprinter and labourer .
*NK Sevak “Sanatan”