The Indian Premier League has long become a great platform for players to make their mark and a pathway to the Indian team. Now, we have started to see the direct benefits of the infrastructure and training that the IPL franchises provide in players when they turn up for the national team.
The Royals’ High Performance Center in Talegaon, near Nagpur, under their Director of High Performance, Zubin Bharucha, is proving to be a finishing school for RR’s talented players. Yashasvi Jaiswal and Dhruv Jurel are shinning examples of it. The left-hand opener has been the best batter (655 runs at an average of 93.57) on both sides in the ongoing India versus England series while the keeper-batter has made a brilliant start to his career in the two Tests he has played.
During the modern trend of players preferring being specialist in one format, in the RR model we are seeing the T20 set-up is helping out in their Test game as well.
What they are doing is picking talented, hungry cricketers and helping them reach the next level. Jaiswal has been working at the RR High Performance Centre for the last three years with Bharucha and Jurel since two years.
It’s the execution of their training that has made the difference and transformed them into all-format players.
“How do we execute that to get them to where they need to be and be the best version of themselves? Both (Yashasvi and Jurel) are so different, different characters, different types of players, but there is a template how we are preparing each of these guys which is similar,” explains Bharucha.