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Fitness for Cricket
Cricket is a sport in which fitness is traditionally not thought
of as very important. However, the success in the 1990s and 2000s of the world beating
Australian team has been attributed to their professionalism, and
in part to the way they address their fitness. The other test playing nations have rightfully put more emphasis on fitness recently and are reaping the benefits.
With the introduction of one day Cricket and more recently Twenty20, the game has gone through major changes and the physical demands made on a cricketer's body have also increased dramatically.
Depending on the version of the game being played and the role of the player in the team, the importance of fitness will vary: the fitness requirements of a fast bowler will be greater and also different than that of an opening batsman, and one-day cricket will be more demanding than a test match. There have been a couple of polls on fitness components for cricket, asking what you think is the single most important fitness component for cricket, and rating of each of the fitness components. From these polls, it is clear that balance and coordination is seen as one of the most important aspects of cricket fitness, followed by speed and power.
Here is some more information relating to fitness for cricket.
- Fitness tests for cricket — a sample of fitness tests that can be done to test the fitness of a cricket player
- The Physical Demands of Professional Cricket — an article by Andrew Gale, a professional cricketer who has played over 100 1st team games for Yorkshire.
Related Pages
- Home of Cricket
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- Cricket Training Programs
