dont have the luxury of having the specialized equipment or personnel at the ready while in lockdown the nca and team medical staff is working together collaboratively to ensure they are controlling what they can control in terms of rehab and the return to training and performance process while in lockdown from a strength and conditioning perspective we work alongside the physiotherapist to complement the rehab process and target physical qualities and areas that are not injured to ensure we optimize training adaptation and of course utilizing equipment that is available at homeshow critical do gym sessions become in these circumstances when you cant play the sport itselfyou can look at it from many avenues if gymming is possible with the facilities available its a real chance to make some physical improvements while not playing matches for some this lockdown is a good opportunity to get mentally fresh away from international cricket in the short term while we had encouraged players to spend some quality time with their families all of them do enjoy getting into the gym for a lot of them its their own time to have their own space stay in some form of routine and be fit getting these guys into the gym is not an issueunlike many other team sports the nature of cricket particularly the different needs for a batsman and a bowler are big challenges in themselves how do you use your expertise to deliver and satisfy the demands of both sets of skillsits about understanding what skills theyre currently good at and how they want to express themselves on the park and how they want to play their game theyve made team india for a reason so its about how you harness that and ensure that you set up plans and programs that allow them to thrive and enhance what theyre already good attailoring each individual plans for both bowlers and batters requires you to understand the biomechanics of each task and each players technique pace bowling is the most unnatural sequence of movements you can put your body through and everyone does it differently so i need to understand how they execute their skill there are biomechanical and movement criteria that i look at to allow me to assess each bowler then its just a matter of prioritizing which movements will have the best transfer to the skill and working alongside the player to ensure they understand and agree to the process the same goes for batting there are biomechanical principles and criteria that are associated with batting and power hitting and there are different methods to be effective again its about aligning the principles and methods to the player and the way they currently execute their skillwhat was it like to take over from shankar basu who is credited for the huge improvement in the fitness levels of a number of indian cricketers the benchmark was set quite highfirstly i think its important to respect and acknowledge the work