Association of Explosive Power and Agility among Cricketers of State Level

Abstract

Often cricket is stated as an aerobic sport however when broken down the game is played by the playersperforming at various speeds and intensities-jumping, sprinting, catching, diving, majority of the play isin intervals and the activity does not lasts for long periods of time (e.g.; batting, bowling, fielding, wicketkeeping, making a run).Purpose of the study is to determine association between explosive power agility instate level cricket players. Previous studies have investigated physical performances with respect to injuryincidence and prevention. In this study physical aspects such as power, agility and anaerobic fitness shallbe considered. Also due to paucity of evidences and studies on this literature it is important to find anassociation between the explosive power, agility among cricket players of state level. Total 100 male statelevel cricketers from different cricket academies were included in the study. Subjects with age group of16-23 were taken in the study. Screening and assessment protocol were followed to select participants.Performance tests were measured. Explosive power with vertical jump test, agility with run a 3 test. Resultof study showed:1. Correlation between explosive power and agility was -.305** and it was significant at .002.Present study concluded that explosive power is negatively correlated with agility.