Former cricketer Virender Sehwag has questioned the Team India players suffering recurring injuries. He expressed that modern-day players focus a lot on weightlifting, instead of exercises. Team India has been battling with players suffering recurring injuries in the last few years.
Recently, Shreyas Iyer was ruled out of the ODI series against Australia, due to the recurrence of his lower-back injury. Similarly, Jasprit Bumrah too has been out of action for several months and has undergone surgery in New Zealand last week. Virender Sehwag expressed that during his time, the players would not get ruled out due to such injuries. He said on TRS Clips,
“There is no place for weightlifting in cricket. Instead, you should do the exercises that improve your game. Weightlifting will give you strength, but will also increase stiffness and soreness. In our days, Aakash Chopra, Gautam Gambhir, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, VVS Laxman, MS Dhoni, or Yuvraj Singh, nobody were ruled out due to back, hamstring, or quadricep injuries.”
Not everyone is Virat Kohli, need a separate training program based on players body- Virender Sehwag
Further, Virender Sehwag Questioned the approach of Team India’s fitness program. He expressed that all the players follow the same program, which shouldn’t be the case. Sehwag argued that R Ashwin and Virat Kohli should have different fitness regimes, as per their body. He said,
“Basu Shanker was with the Indian team for a lot of years, and he made the same programs for all players. Why should there be the same program for Ravichandran Ashwin and Virat Kohli? When Ashwin was with the Kings XI Punjab, he told me he was doing clean-and-jerk workouts because it was in trend. Athletes train from childhood for clean and jerk and still get injured. Imagine a cricketer starting when he’s over 30 years old. Both Ashwin and Axar had problems with their knees because of this workout.”
“We didn’t do any weight training in our days, but we were still able to play cricket all day. This could be Virat Kohli’s funda. But not everyone is Virat Kohli. You need to prepare a training program based on your own body,” added Virender Sehwag.
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