IPL 2018: Yo-Yo test made mandatory for RCB players by the franchise

Before the 11th edition of the Indian Premier League, the IPL auction grabbed a lot of eyeballs on television as well as on the social media. On social media, the 2-day IPL auction broke previous records as 770K tweets poured on discussing the single topic on Twitter. The side’s spend millions on a number of players in order to get their hands on the trophy.

Royal Challengers Bangalore, one of the sides that failed to win the tournament in their previous 10 attempts are keen to win this season. To make sure their chosen players in the auction remain fit, the franchise has asked them to pass the much-talked fitness test, Yo-Yo test.

Indian skipper Virat Kohli, who was retained by the franchise is a huge fan of the process where the player needs to pass the test in order to get the chance to play the game. As per the reports by The Hindu, the franchise has asked Delhi cricketers, Pawan Negi, Navdeep Saini and Kulwant Khejroliya to appear for the test.

Over the years, fitness has been one of the major talks among the Indian players. Indian captain Virat Kohli has been the leader as the 28-year-old can be seen sweating out in the gyms every now and then in order to stay. Former captain MS Dhoni, the 37-year-old, works really hard on his fitness to keep himself fit. Recently, India all-rounder Hardik Pandya had posted a video in which he was seen racing with Dhoni.

Earlier, southpaw Suresh Raina had failed the test and was dropped from the side as they had failed to pass the fitness test. Suresh Raina had cleared the test recently and on the back of his blistering form for his domestic side, Uttar Pradesh in Syed Mushtaq Ali trophy was named in the Indian T20 side for the series against South Africa.

With Kohli as a captain of RCB, one should not be surprised by the fact that fitness is going to be the key to feature in the side’s XI.

Here’s the RCB full squad