IPL 2022: Hardik Pandya bowls at NCA, passes Yo-Yo test with flying colours as he gets ready for IPL
India Today
Injury-ravaged all-rounder Hardik Pandya passed the 'Yo-Yo'test with flying colours and is set to lead Gujarat Titans in IPL 2022 while Delhi Capitals opener Prithvi Shaw failed the fitness test.
India all-rounder Hardik Pandya bowled and passed the 'Yo-Yo' Test comfortably at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru during a general assessment. Pandya is now set to lead Gujarat Titans in the upcoming IPL 2022.
The BCCI is checking on all its centrally contracted players -- injured or otherwise -- before the IPL and Pandya's performance, during his two days at the NCA, can also be seen as a good sign for Indian cricket.
"Let's make it clear. Fitness test clearance is only for those who are coming back from injury. In the case of Hardik, it was about getting a general fitness assessment going into the grueling IPL season," a BCCI source was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.
''He is an asset and one needed to check his current fitness standards,'' he added.
In fact, in his fitness assessment module, the NCA team didn't even mandate him to bowl but the all-rounder apparently ''insisted'' on it to show that he is on track to make a comeback to the Indian team.
Prithvi Shaw fails: The former U-19 World Cup-winning captain, who is not a part of the central contract, was also at the NCA to provide an update on his fitness status and the result wasn't exactly satisfactory.
The current Yo-Yo test qualification score is 16.5 for men and it has been learned that the Delhi Capitals opener has scored less than 15. Shaw, of late, hasn't been among the fittest of Indian players and perhaps that is one of the reasons that of late, he has not been considered in any of the current senior teams across formats.
