A file of an Indian team photo during a fitness test in England. (Instagram) New Delhi: The Bronco Test created many buzzes in the Indian cricket settings. The introduction of the Bronco Bronco Test in the style of rugby in the Indian cricket system, the current Indian coach and the conditioning of Adrian Le Roux, gained mixed reactions.Former India Off-Spinner R Ashwin and the legendary South African cricket AB de Villiers called it a “big problem” and said it would be very “demanding” for crickets.“It’s one of the worst,” De Villiers said on his YouTube channel. Former India Cricter R Ashwin on his podcast Ash Ki Baat on YouTube plunged light on the challenges and complexity of the Indian cricket passing from one training system to another.He said, “When the coach changes, the test mechanism changes, the training scheme will change. This is a big problem for players. In fact, this could also lead to injuries. And it has. Because I passed the cycle from 2017 to 2019, I was looking for my training scheme because I was constantly injured.”What is a bronco test?The Bronco test, mostly accepted by rugby teams, consists of repeated shuttles over distances of 20, 40 and 60 meters. In the test, the runner sprints from 0 to 60 meters and back, then up to 40 meters and back, followed by 20 meters and back – completing 240 meters in one set. The complete test includes five such sets and adds up to 1200 meters of continuous running without rest.Ramji Srinivasan, who was an Indian coach of strength and conditioning during the 2011 World Championship, believes that the Bronco test was very needed in the Indian cricket system.“Bronco is basically a test -based fitness test,” says Ramji in an exclusive interview of Timesofindia.com.“((This) has been used for a long time by rugby teams and mostly rugby teams because it is a continuous, quick endurance work that has good intensity. And you need to cover the distance within a certain time.“It gives you the value of aerobic fitness and the value of the fatigue index, your anaerobic threshold. At the same time, it does not give you reading, reading about your explosive power or reading about your reactive strength or your flexibility or balance or stability or your acceleration.“And there is no way to cheat in it. You can’t cut the corners here. It’s all limited. It gives you a very realistic picture of what one player needs to improve,” he explains.New S&C coach, new methods
Saham desai photo file. (Video Grack)
Former Indian coach and conditioner Saham Desai, who was part of the India team for five years before it was replaced by Adrian Le Roux, he says it’s just another Fitness test.“There is no structure in India or there is no standard,” says Timesofindia.com.“Adrian came in. Now we can’t blame him or we can’t say why Adrian brought a new test. He was introduced because Adrian is comfortable with this test. In Yo-Yo or Bronco or in two kilometers or in a beeping test there are tools.“Bronco is something that is mostly used in a rugby environment or in a rugby environment, because their game is such, their system is that they have been doing it for years. And that’s something you don’t need sound, you don’t need any devices to perform this test.“So I also did it with boys or even Adrian would do it with the boys without telling them that it was a bronco test, as just a conditioning training for them,” he adds.“Adrian is familiar with the test. And he wants to use a test to assess the player’s capability. There’s nothing right or bad.“It’s just a question that the coach would be comfortable with a certain way. There is nothing to read between the lines or nothing that leads us somewhere.”End of road for Rohit and Shami?
File photo Rohit Sharma in practice. (Getty Images)
Ramji Srinivasan firmly believes that the bronco test will be for aging superstars like Mohammed Shami and Rohit Sharma.“Reading a 19 -year -old boy about Bronco will be completely different from a 37 -year -old man (reading),” he says.“Players who have 35 and AC and AC must have a different marginal point, different standardization. Because they play over the years, they can carry niggly, their body may not react. We must have a separate standardization for those people, those who are over 30 years.“I think it’s good to have a youth for 20 years old, but you can’t compare it to a 40 -year -old player,” he warns.Is bronco selection criteria?
Adrian Le Roux during England Tour with India. (Instagram)
Desai believes that the Bronco test will not be a selection parameter, nor was the YO-YO test after the ODI 2019 World Championship.“Bronco is not a test in which the player will be selected or not selected. At the moment, it is not even with Yo-Yo,” he says.“During the Virt Kohli, Ravi Shastriho, Shankar Basa ordered to get to the level leading to the 2019 World Cup.“These figures were agreed with all stakeholders involved and wanted to keep it serious for people leading to the 2019 World Cup in 2019 and then playing the World Cup. That was the whole vision.“But then we carried out a YO-YO test three times a year for almost all contract players every year. But it has never been a selection criterion. It is a fitness rating parameter where we are coaches, as people working in NCA (BCCI), we get an idea, images of their convenience at this particular level,” he explains.Why, unlike Yo-Yo, you can’t cheat in Bronco?
Ramji Srinivasan, a former strength coach and conditioning of the Indian team, praised the step that brought a bronco test to assess the level of fitness seniors. (Ians)
In a surprising revelation, Srinivasan says that crickets will not be able to cheat in Bronco as if they were lowering the corners in the YO-YO test.“There are so many variables in Yo-Yo,” says Ramji.“First of all, where you do yo-yo, whether you do it inside or out there, that is one. The other thing, the conditions of the country where the country is doing well. For example, two or three reasons side by side. Get standardization.“Thirdly, the type of surface, whether you do it on the grass, whether you do it on red soil, whether you do it on the ground, depending on the base surface.“The fourth is your humidity factor. What is the level of moisture when you do testing?“And you can steal your thumbs back and forth in yo-yo test. Bronco is really hard to hit. If and until you are at a good fitness level when you try to push, you can be injured. You have to be at a good level to make bronco. You know, it’s not just a weak heart test.
