Yo-Yo test pass marks for Indian players lowest among top teams
22/06/2018
new delhi: All the brouhaha over the Yo-Yo test for the Team India players falls flat if one were to look at the pass marks of other teams.
The score prescribed by the Indian team management and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is, after all, very basic, the lowest among the top teams of world cricket. Even the Pakistan team, no great advertisement for fitness standards not long ago, has kept a very high benchmark.
Mirror has tried to find out the minimum marks of most teams and it turns out England and New Zealand have 19 as much as Australia had set for their players before discontinuing with it about four years ago. For the South African players, it is 18.5 and for the Sri Lankans, it is 17.4. For the Pakistanis too, it is 17.4. “We’ve taken it to 17.4,” confirmed Mickey Arthur while talking to Mirror from Lahore. Since the South African took over the reins of the Pakistan team, he has been putting extreme emphasis on fitness, an exercise which had led to the dropping of Umar Akmal at one stage.
Confirmation was provided by the England team too with its spokesperson telling this paper that the minimum score on the Yo-Yo test for Joe Root & Co is 19. A spokesperson for the South Africa team refused to disclose the number stating that there are different qualifying scores for different players.
“There is no standard pass mark. Each player is given/sets their own personal benchmark that they have to pass.
It is definitely higher than 16 though,” the spokesperson said. This paper has information that it is 18.5.
Cricket Australia has discontinued with the Yo-Yo test some four years ago but prior to that, it wanted the players to log 19 marks in the test. Said Greg Chappell, who heads one of the best high performance centres in Brisbane, “We stopped using the Yo-Yo 4-5 years ago. It was not considered a reliable enough measure for what we wanted. We use the 2 kilometre time trial these days,” he said, adding that 19 was the minimum mark before the test was discontinued.
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