Andrew Leipus and Adrian Le Roux, caretakers of the Indian team’s physical fitness, will feature on Harsha Online. The show airs on 20 January at 10.30 pm on Star Sports.

It is not easy to persuade cricketers,to wear their soles out in fitness training, but the team Leipus and Le Roux undertook the arduous task willingly, and went on to earn compliments from the team, which can now feel the changes, and the positive fallout. The Indians owe a lot of credit to this duo for their recent successes. The fitness experts themselves consider it a challenge to keep the team in shape because it plays a lot without adequate rest.

Leipus was appointed the Indian team’s physiotherapist in October 1999 . This Australian is a qualified sports scientist and a physiotherapist from the University of South Australia. Before joining the Indian team, Leipus spent almost two years in South Africa with the likes of Daryll Cullinan and Andrew Hall at the Centre of Sports Medicine, Roesbank, Johannesburg.

South African Adrian Le Roux is responsible for the training of the Indian team. Le Roux has worked with the Free State side in South Africa for seven years. He had his first brush with the Indian team after they lost the Bloemfontein test inside four days on their last tour. On John Wright’s invitation, he had a session with the Indians and that was the beginning of his association with the team.