Indian Jasprit Bumrah celebrates with teammates (AP/PTI) Dubai: The year was 2002 and India was just scripting history in Queen’s Park Oval and after 36 long years defeated Western India in the test. The team went high to self -confidence and traveled to St Lucia on a two -day side game against Bust XI. Coach John Wright decided to give higher players a well -earned break. But the second day, when the game walked, tired senior senior India player went to the gallery of a press box in Gros Islet. “We were better to play,” said half -mercy, half -tested. His complaint was not about cricket – it was about running. Instead of allowing players to relax and recover after an exhausting test that India won by 37 runs, coach of strength and conditioning Adrian Le Roux performed older stars through a criminal fitness routine, which let them run over Stub Lucia. Le Roux, a hard task, believed in the determination of high fitness standards – and it was no coincidence that India played one of their most intense and disciplined crickets at the beginning of the millennium. Two decades could have changed faces, but Le Roux’s philosophy was not. The South African is back to his second Stint with the India team – and his dreaded running drills, this time he reappears as a “bronco run”. “It is not a new run or new measurement,” says Le Roux in a three -minute video published on the BCCI website. “It has been in various sports codes for several years and it is something we recently introduced in the team environment. “The idea is double: we can use it as a training mechanism and secondly as a measurement tool. It provides us with a clear picture of where players stand in terms of aerobic fitness and whether we are moving in the right direction. “Allows players to assess yourself. It’s a functional, practical test.” “It’s a passion for an Indian team that comes with the history I have with them in the last two decades. In these years, the biggest change in the complete cricket that the boys played. My goal is simple – to make players in the best condition to show their skills.” The Le Roux works in two very different eras of the Indian cricket and insists that the basics of strength and fitness do not change – only players are required. What exactly is bronco running? Bronco run is widely used in rugby and is designed to push the aerobic and cardiovascular capacity of the player to its limit. It includes running between four hundred marks located at 0 m, 20 m, 40m and 60m. One set requires the player to cover 240 meters with sprinting back and forth in the sequence set. Completion of five such sets – a total of 1,200 meters – without a break.
