Supreme Court appointed Committee of Administrator (CoA) for Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has clarified that the team management will decide whether the Yo-Yo test results reveal to the public or not.

Recently, BCCI treasurer Anirudh Chaudhry has raised some questions on the Yo-Yo fitness test. In the present time, the test has been headlined after some in-form cricketers like Sanju Samson, Mohammed Shami and Ambati Rayudu etc. have been dropped due to failing in this test.

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CoA chief Vinod Rai has made clear that the team management will decide whether the Yo-Yo test results to be released to the public or not.

Talking about that, Rai told CricketNext, “See, that is for the team management to decide if they wish to release the results of the test conducted on the players. It is not my domain and I don’t wish to get into that.”

In his mail, Chaudhary had some important questions like –

• At which forum was the decision taken to have a minimum score on the Yo-yo test as a prerequisite for selection into a BCCI selected team?
• Who all were present in the meeting that decided this?
• Have minutes been recorded of the said meeting?
• If the player has had an increased workload in the past few weeks and is somewhat fatigued, would he not be scoring less on the recovery tests?

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As a result, on Wednesday, General Manager Cricket Operations Saba Karim brought a presentation to show how the test functions and its effectiveness to assess the cricketers’ fitness.

However, Rai didn’t wish to talk about that internal discussion by quoting, “It wasn’t really a presentation. It was an internal discussion and not something I wish to talk about.”

Earlier, Indian cricket team head coach Ravi Shastri spoke about the fitness test as he mentioned the process is very simple.

Before leaving for the UK tour with the team, Shastri commented, “The philosophy regarding the yo-yo test is very simply. You pass you play, you fail you sail. Whosoever thinks that it is a one-off thing can take a walk. It is not going to go anywhere. The captain leads from the front, the selectors and the entire team management are on the same page.”