Cricket

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General Fitness – Flexibility or Mobility
All players need to have a good range of movement in all joints. When
fully warmed up or at the end of physical activity, take each limb and
joint to its end position, press and hold for several seconds. Relax and
repeat (see Figures 45 a-c).
Figure 45a
Specific Fitness
Analyse each player’s activity to discover what type of training he/she
needs.
1. Batsmen – have to be able to run and turn quickly wearing
equipment.
Suggested Activity :
Shuttles of 5 runs, 20 yards long wearing full
equipment, carrying a bat.
– need to have strong wrists.
Suggested Activities:
Wrist rolling, i. e. winding a weight on a stick up
and down as quickly as possible.
Squeezing grips, squash balls etc.
2. Wicketkeepers – have to move from a squatting position very
quickly.
Suggested Activities:
Hopping, bounding, skipping etc.
Shuttle from squatting position to stumps to
catch a ball and then return to squatting start
position before repeating 6 times.
Figure 45b
Figure 45c
– have to be able to dive and catch.
Suggested Activity:
Practice from squatting position: run five paces to
side, dive onto mat turning shoulder underneath.
Repeat in opposite direction starting from
squatting position each time (see Figure 46).
Figure 46