Physiology Analysis of Fitness and Physiological Factors in Cricket

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Abstract
Every sport has their physiological demands and factors that help to regulate and form their
training. In the current analysis, the game of cricket has been selected, which is a high energy
and mental strength driven games. It requires various physical factors such as muscular
endurance, flexibility, and speed for which physiological and biomedical factors has to be
ascertained. Training athletes of crickets require overcoming several issues to ascertain
appropriate training.
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Table of Contents
Abstract............................................................................................................................................2
1.0 Introduction................................................................................................................................4
2.0 Part A: Analysis of fitness of components of Cricket...............................................................4
2.1 Important Physical Components............................................................................................5
2.2 Physiological and Biochemical Factors that regulate performance.......................................7
3.0 Part B – Physiological factors that influence training and performance...................................9
3.1 Introduction............................................................................................................................9
3.2 Discussion..............................................................................................................................9
3.3 Summary and conclusion.....................................................................................................11
4.0 References................................................................................................................................12
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1.0 Introduction
Every sport has their physiological demand component, which allows determining success factor
in the sport (Robert, Callaghan & Jeffriess, 2014). In the current analysis cricket is the selected
sport for which physiological components are determined. The current scope of analysis has been
undertaken to understand the influence of the developmental factors that are crucial to
physiological components of the sport. The game of cricket consists of bowlers, batsman, and
wicket-keepers. Bowlers compromise an essential piece of any cricket team. The job of every
bowlers plan to expel the batsmen from the contradicting group while confining the measure of
runs scored by the contradicting batsmen. Various bowlers depending on different sorts of
conveyances: quick bowlers utilizing an assortment of conveyances including swing and crease
development of the ball (Maunder, Kilding & Cairns). Notwithstanding the playing organize
multi-day, one-day or Twenty20, late research has concentrated more on bowlers. Moreover,
cricket groups regularly likewise incorporate turn bowlers who convey the ball at slower speeds
and place pivot on the ball before discharge for deviation off the pitch to build shot trouble by
the batsman. The analysis is conducted in two parts wherein Part A fitness component of the
sport is determined and then in second part physiological factors which influence training and
performance is analyzed in Part B.
2.0 Part A: Analysis of fitness of components of Cricket
Cricket is a sport played with a team that is played by use of a ball and a bat in an oval-shaped
outdoor arena. In the game of cricket there is a short burst of high intensity with long rest
intervals, therefore various specific components are required for cricket performance (Knudson,
2007). Cricketers not only need to be skillful but also requires good balance with core strengths
for running between the wickets. Bowlers need good speed and power, determining relative
strengths and weaknesses of players will help decide on training and developmental needs. In
this analysis three, most important components are determined and analyzed for the successful
playing of the sport.
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