The Indian team tasted more defeats than victories in 2022 and the top brass of the Indian cricket board met with head coach Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman and Rohit Sharma to review the 20-20 World Cup 2022, where India lost to the Jos Buttler-led England team in the semi-finals. India then went on to lose the ODI series against New Zealand and Bangladesh, causing a huge shockwave across the country.
On January 1, 2023, Sunday, reports emerged claiming that the board decided to make the Yo-Yo test mandatory to be a part of the national team. The reports further claimed that the board would request the Indian T20 League franchises to manage the workload of the players as the 50-over World Cup will take place in India around October.
As things stand, the board further decided that the uncapped players must have played a significant amount of domestic games before representing the nation, as per the reports. India have a hectic home schedule coming up as they would be facing off against Sri Lanka and New Zealand for a three-match T20I and ODI series.
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Soon after, the Indian team would clash against the mighty Australians for a four-match Test series, in the Border-Gavaskar trophy and the team would look to address all of their concern ahead of the hectic schedule. India ended 2022 on a high by winning the second Test against the Shakib Al Hasan-led Bangladeshi team in their own backyard, although one has to agree that the former had a poor outing in the year.
“You trust the guys in the middle (during such situations). We’ve played enough cricket to realise that someone will put their hand up to win us the game. But I’m not going to lie, there was a lot of tension in the dressing room. It was a tough wicket to bat on, they put us under pressure in both innings,” the skipper KL Rahul was quoted as saying after the match.
“It was a new-ball surface to some extent, once ball got softer, it was easier to score runs. It was a matter of who plays the new ball better. We did lose a few more wickets than ideal (in the chase) but we got the job done. Will take the win. That (bowling attack) has been the case for the last many years now. Wherever we’ve gone overseas in recent years, we have done the job,” he added.
As things stand, let us take a look at a few Twitter reactions to report about the Yo-Yo test:
So it means rohit sharma is sacked from white ball captiancy ?
— A (@aryaan__18) January 1, 2023
Archaic. When will they use sprint fatigue test and phosphate recovery test
— Carnivore Desi (@samarsheoran) January 1, 2023
So it wasn’t before even under Kohli?
— Not a Big Bren intellectual (@Bilkl_ricks_nai) January 1, 2023
Doctor Rohit Sharma will clear easily
— ?????. (@RoFiedAsim) January 1, 2023
End of an Era !
Thank U Rohit Sharma ?— Admond Dantes (@sabuj471) January 1, 2023
That's the great news.
15 should be minimum requirement!— kishan Shrivastwa (@Rajsinha2005) January 1, 2023
Rohit shivering ???
— A. (@PrimeAbhayy) January 1, 2023
Was it not before ?
— Maj Partha Mohanty (@Paaarth_Mohanty) January 1, 2023
