Kolkata, Aug. 23 -- In a skill-based sport like cricket, fitness once conformed to the seasonal calendar and hence, needed off-season, pre-season and pre-competition camps. But as the sport grew, fitness was viewed through a holistic lens that caters to power, endurance, agility, flexibility and reaction time of cricketers on an individual basis. And since everyone has different physical thresholds, the need to monitor and manage their fitness has become a year-round practice. Which is why the concept of training in the off-season - a window India rarely get these days - has undergone several makeovers in the last three decades. The ideal pre-season used to be a six to eight-week window, a phase where cricketers could afford to ramp down an...