The manner in which YoYo tests now have a major say in selection of the Indian team, has been slammed by Sandeep Patil, who was India's senior chief selector before current chairman MSK Prasad took over in 2016. Only recently, Ambati Rayudu, who was among the Top 4 run-getters in the just-concluded Indian Premier League, was left out of the England-bound limited overs team because he failed the YoYo test. "Look, I am not against fitness being a criteria.

I have been part of the National Cricket Academy as director where there were all kinds of tests conducted on players and I realise how important the fitness aspect is. "But I find it very absurd that a player is dropped for failing the Yo Yo test after he has been picked in the squad. In this way, you are disturbing the balance of the team; you are playing with the career of a cricketer," Patil told mid-day yesterday.