How have Indian cricket players fared in the Yo-Yo test? When was the Yo-Yo test introduced to Indian cricket team?įormer Indian cricket team’s strength and conditioning coach Shankar Basu had introduced the Yo-Yo test to the national side ahead of India’s tour of Sri Lanka in 2017. Over a period of time, other sports started embracing the Yo-Yo test. The routine, however, did not follow the template of running long distances. The test was initially done on footballers to improve their overall fitness and aerobic capacity. Who invented the Yo-Yo test?ĭanish soccer physiologist Dr Jens Bangsbo had introduced the Intermittent Recovery Test (Yo-Yo test) in the 1990s. The level for New Zealand cricketers is set at 20:1. The benchmark level for the Indian cricket team is 16:1, which covers 1120 metres. The process is software-based and the results are recorded. Once a player misses two beeps, their test ends. It starts with level 5, which consists of one shuttle, level 11 has two shuttles and so on and gets gruelling as it progresses. This leads to an increase in the running speed. The number of shuttles per level increases too although not mathematically. As the level of each shuttle goes up, the duration benchmark for the completion of the shuttle decreases. There’s a seven second recovery period between each shuttle. The Yo-Yo test in ultra slow-mo #INDvNZ - batch 2 : /2UkBBtZcbn Once the return trip is done, it marks the completion of a shuttle.
The player then has to return to the initial cone before the third beep sounds. Once the beep is sounded, a player has to reach the cone on the other side at the next beep. The Yo-Yo test is a variation of the Beep test, a running aerobic fitness test that involves running between two sets of cones that are 20 metres apart (incidentally the length of a cricket pitch). Interestingly, several cricketers including Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, Mohammed Shami, Sanju Samson and recently Varun Chakravarthy have failed to clear the Yo-Yo test. This test is considered to be one of the main reasons for the massive improvement in fitness levels among players today. The Yo-Yo test has become a talking point in recent years ever since it set the benchmark for selection in the Indian cricket team.
0 kommentar(er)
