If we had yo-yo check in our period, Ganguly, Laxman would have by no means handed it: Virender Sehwag

Former India batsman Virender Sehwag just isn’t a giant fan of modern-day health assessments that are necessary to get chosen within the nationwide cricket group. According to the previous India opener, extra emphasis needs to be given on a participant’s abilities than their Yo-Yo check end result.
Citing the instance of former India captain and BCCI President Sourav Ganguly and former India participant VVS Laxman, Sehwag stated that they not often used to get the specified mark of 12.5 within the health check.
Sehwag stated that if the yo-yo check existed in his enjoying days, then the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Ganguly and Laxman won’t have been capable of make it by means of.
“I won’t agree with all of this, if these criteria existed before, Tendulkar, Laxman, and Ganguly wouldn’t have passed it. During my time, we had such a test, where they always fell short of the 12.5 mark,” Sehwag advised Cricbuzz.
However, India captain Virat Kohli has been vocal about elevating the health requirements. In the lately concluded limited-overs sequence in opposition to England, the likes of Varun Chakravarthy and Rahul Tewatia failed the clear the health parameters. While Tewataia did handle to clear it within the second try, Chakravarthy didn’t.
Sharing his views on the identical, he stated, “Skill is important, today if you are playing a fit team but don’t have the skills, then you would ultimately end up losing. Play them based on their skills, slowly you can improve their fitness over time but if is yo-yo criteria is applied straight away, then the talks are different. If a player can field and bowl 10 overs, that should be enough, we shouldn’t be concerned about the other things,” he stated.
“I want to tell you one thing, here we are talking about yo-yo Test, Hardik Pandya doesn’t have issues with running, he has issues with workload because of his bowling. However, Ashwin and (Varun) Chakravarthy, on the other hand, haven’t cleared the yo-yo Test, that’s why they aren’t here.”