Comparison between cricket and volleyball players with respect to their flexibility

Abstract

Flexibility is an essential fitness component for an athlete to perform well in his sport/game. Off course it increases his performance and makes him a good athlete among the others. Flexibility can be acquired through stretching exercises. The main purpose of this study was to compare cricket and volleyball players with respect to their flexibility. The researcher used simple random sampling for selecting the subjects for both the groups (cricket and volleyball players group). Total number of players taken by researcher for this researcher work was 200 players (100 for cricket players and 100 for volleyball players). The age of these players was fixed between 18 to 24 years. To measure the flexibility of both the groups, researcher used sit & reach test. To check the significant difference between cricket and volleyball players group in relation to flexibility, data was again analyzed by applying t test. The mean value of cricket and volleyball players was 3.41#0.90. Before applying “t” test, S.D was calculated between cricket and volleyball players group in relation to flexibility, where standard deviation of cricket players group was 3.91 and S.D of volleyball players group was 3.90. The calculated value of “t” was found 9.08, which was greater than the tabulated t (1.972) at 0.05 level of significance. This showed that there was significant difference (P=9.08