Analysis of anthropometric peculiarities among fast and spin bowlers in the cricket academy of Tamil Nadu cricket association

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to find out the analysis an anthropometric peculiarities among fast and spin bowlers in the academies of Tamil Nadu Cricket Association. In order to achieve these purpose 30 YMCA cricket academy players were taken as subject from Chennai. The selected subjects were in the age group of 16 to 23 years. The subject (N=30) were randomly assigned to two equal groups of fifteen subjects each. The groups were assigned as Spin Bowler Group and Fast Bowler Group in an equivalent manner. All the thirty subjects were tested on their anthropometric variables name such as height, weight, arm girth relaxed, arm girth flexed, waist girth and calf girth. The difference in the mean of each group for selected variable was tested by independent ‘t’ test SPSS software was used for analysis of the data. The level of significance was fixed at 0.05. Analysis of data revealed that the difference between spin bowler group and fast bowler group for arm girth relax, arm girth flexed and calf girth anthropometric are not significant. The data does indicated that the difference between spin bowler group and fast bowler group for anthropometric variables height, weight and waist girth are significant.