How the BCCI Centre of Excellence is shaping India's high-performance system

The BCCI Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Bengaluru is designed to bring together the different elements of elite performance — from cricket coaching and sports science to sports medicine, strength and conditioning and technology. During a media interaction at the CoE, BCCI Head of.

Addressing questions around injuries and rehabilitation, Mr Laxman said the CoE's work begins with understanding the nature of an injury and continues until the player is ready to return to competitive cricket. Depending on the nature of the injury, the initial assessment may involve.

What Happened

Once the diagnosis is established and the player reports to the CoE, the rehabilitation programme moves through different phases, starting with medical and physiotherapy intervention before progressing to strength and conditioning, cricket-specific skills and a gradual increase in workload. The return-to-play process.

• But when someone is playing at the elite level, you're supposed to give more than 100%.

• Mr Laxman said the focus should be on helping players understand their workloads, monitoring them effectively and continually improving systems rather than expecting injuries to be eliminated altogether.

• While acknowledging that modern players are required to play significantly more cricket than previous generations, Mr Laxman said injuries were an unavoidable part of elite sport.

Key Details

Until and unless the benchmark is met, or in fact got better, we don't release. The objective, Mr Laxman added, is to ensure that when a player returns to the Indian team or competitive cricket, he or she is ready to perform.

• The CoE therefore sets an individual workload range for fast bowlers and monitors their bowling loads on a weekly basis.

• Our learning is that stress injuries or injuries happen not because a fast bowler is bowling too much.

• In some cases, the risk can arise when bowlers are not sufficiently prepared for the demands placed on them.

Why It Matters

It is not a machine where the timelines will always be met. Mr Laxman also addressed questions around players working with individual trainers and said there was a structured system in place to monitor players across the different levels of Indian cricket.

• Mr Laxman said one of the key learnings from workload monitoring was that injuries are not necessarily caused by bowlers doing too much.

• Technology has also helped the CoE monitor the workloads of fast bowlers, particularly when players are away from the facility.

What Reports Say

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• Continued reporting by BCCI as more details emerge