'Can't go past 13 in Fitness Test'

[Zeeshan]

Coach basically said we have s((())) fitness. Again and again I have harped on it. Fitness IS everything. You can write lamentations and odes on as much technique and batting in the nets as possible but hey practising in nets is same as sparring in the net. Icing on the cake. We don't wanna do the hard work, clean the grease off the rung and grind. (My another intuitive notion is that if somehow all these ripped a-- black athletes...lol from America were to pick up cricket first they shall struggle with technique and odd mannerisms of holding bats and to bowl... but then there will be massive growth. Why else do you think Afghans whoops our sorrya--?)

The Bangladesh Cricket Board has decided to raise the beep-test requirement at the domestic level in a bid to address the overall drop in fitness levels among Bangladesh men's players. The national selectors recently instructed the first-class teams to only pick players who reach at least 11 on the test, an increase by two levels from last season when a fitness test first became mandatory.

"We have noticed that the fitness of the national players are very poor," Nazmul Hassan, the BCB president, said. "The coach [Russell Domingo] asked, 'What sort of fitness is this? I have never seen such fitness of players in South Africa'. We cannot suddenly increase the fitness-level requirements. We cannot reach the mark of 13 points [in the beep test] or even go above that.

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Fitness matters. Not enough grind, mucho pilpul and waxing stupid theories as if you can hack this game. As if you bring Sunil Joshi or a carrom ball coach or find some stupid statistical loophole like Moneyball we will come back with trophy. Did you see how nailbitingly close the finale was? Every shaving and inching and covering of ground matterd...

It's not F-- rocket science or EXACTLY HARD guys. You see ball, you hit it. How complicated can it possible be? Sometimes people overthinks and overcomplicates simple problem (NASA pen/penicl et al.)... and this is the problem of thinktank members here where we tend to analyze every microsecond and micropixels and microballs...

This why alphas like McCullum, Gilchrist, and pretty much every Aussies... succeeded in pure BRUTE male-testosterone-driven macho approach of just hitting every godddamn ball of out of the park. Consider it a puzzle or a computer simulation problem to be solved. Problem: Score as much runs as possible for the team.

How ffin hard is it?

There is also the analysis-paralysis. We have too many chiefs and not enough Indians.

See, anyone can win 800m in Olympics. Just ffin run. All those filigrees of sports nutrition and psychology will cover later. But no one bars Kenyan or Ethiopian do that. Special Forces? Fffin pushups all day.

tl;dr? : A person with superior biomechanical performance will outperform any other opponent on any given day. And fitness plays a huge component in biomechanics. Just frikkin look at the fortune Lebron spends for maintenance of his body.