Author(s): Shraddha Dwivedi and Riya

Abstract:
Cricket is most popular team sport in India. To be in Indian team one must perform the best. For best performance one must have idea about the factors which will give a positive contribution in performance. The purpose of this study was to compare the physiological variables of qualified and not qualified teams of U-19 girl’s cricket divisional tournament of M.P. Through purposive sampling method players of qualified teams (Indore and Bhopal) of pool B and not qualified team of same pool (Rewa and Ujjain) were selected. The selected dependent variables for the study were forced vital capacity, right hand grip strength, left hand grip strength, heart rate and oxygen saturation level. The 30 girls of qualified team and 30 girls of not qualified were taken as independent variable. Statistical analysis was done with SPSS 20.0, USA. Mean and standard deviation was calculated as a descriptive statistics and independent t-test was used to find out the difference in each selected physiological variable at0.05 level of significance. The statistical analysis showed that there is significant difference between forced vital capacity of qualified and not qualified teams, which may be because of better lung capacity of high level players, also it is found that there is no any significant difference between left hand grip, right hand grip and SPO2 of qualified and not qualified teams. It is concluded from the data that that for achieving high performance in cricket along with the skill, physical fitness (Lung capacity) is equally importance.

DOI: 10.22271/kheljournal.2022.v9.i6a.2668

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