Fitness Testing Assignment

Due to the relative youth of cricket fitness testing, when compared to other similar sports like baseball, there are not as many generally accepted fitness tests around.  That said, there are some simple tests that can be crossed over from baseball, because it has many similar physiological components to cricket. These include agility tests (Illinois Test) and Sprint tests (40m sprint). However there are some things that cannot be simply taken from other sports, and must be designed with cricket in mind, or at least be heavily modified, such as conducting the yo-yo endurance test with batting pads on, or by doing a 30m sprint immediately followed by bowling a ball at a target.
I was unable to find a lot of empirical and verifiable evidence of scores in particular tests, apart from a limited number of sources that noted that Ben Hilfenhaus, considered to be the fittest of the Australian cricketers, scored 15+ on the beep test.  I have heard some stories of other scores in tests, but none that can be backed up by hard evidence.
All cricketers no matter what discipline they belong to, need to have a strong core (Sit-Up test), and for fast bowlers the emphasis is on endurance (Beep/Yo-Yo Test), power (Medicine Ball Test), strength (Bench Press Test)(Power being more important than strength due to the fact that the aim of fast bowling is to use all of one's strength to bowl a ball in a very short space of time), speed (40m sprint) and agility (Illinois Agility Test).
There are many components that need to be considered when designing tests for cricket. These include skill tests, power tests (Legs and arms), endurance tests (Running, Lateral Muscle endurance), as well as agility (fielding). Cricket is a very interrupted sport, due to the nature of the game, and therefore the tests we do need to reflect this interruption in order to give an accurate measurement of a persons ability and fitness. There is also a bigger emphasis on power than many other sports, so by inference there must be power tests in any cricketers testing regime.
For myself, being a fast bowler and tail-end batsman, I need to have a good endurance level, but because cricket is an endurance sport, it is more relevant for me to do an interval test, such as the yo-yo test, than it is for me to do strait running, non-stop as in the beep test. However, if I was training for soccer or basketball, the beep test would be much more appropriate due to the huge amounts of non-stop running required. I need to have a strong, and durable core due to the action I have, which works the core region in generating my pace and power. Therefore the sit-up endurance test is a very important and relevant test for me. There is no known test I could find that can measure the power of the Lateral muscles, so we designed the Med-ball throw test to measure my practical power to bowl a cricket ball, with the height of the bounce the measure of power. Pectoral strength, for throwing and bowling, is a pre-requisite for any cricket testing regime, so I do the 70% Bench Press test. Due to the amount of short distance sprints involved with pace bowling, it is prudent to include the 40m sprint test. Last, but not least, due to the amount of fielding we do, I have included the Illinois Agility test (IAT) in my regime to keep me agile.
My testing goals this year are to get a score of 12+ in the beep test/ equivalent in the yoyo test; to have a Med-ball bounce hight of 7 feet+; bench 15 reps of 70% body weight; to do the 40m sprint in under 5.75 seconds; and to do the IAT in 17 seconds or less.