Effect of 5-week specialized training programme on selected bowling ability of fast bowlers in limited over cricket

The purpose of this study was to find the Effect of 5-week specialized training program on selected bowling ability of fast bowler in limited over cricket. For this study, five male interuniversity fast bowlers were selected from LNIPE, Gwalior as subjects. Pre-data of different type of bowling ability like bouncer, Yorkers and slower ball was collected after which the training was given for five weeks. The training was different for every week and focus on different type of bowling exercise like general training, high intensity bowling exercise, slower balls exercise, bouncer ball training and Yorkers ball training. Post data was collected after the training of each week except 1st week. The findings showed significance difference due to the training of high intensity bowling exercise (p <0.05), bouncer ball training (p < 0.05) and Yorker ball training (p < 0.05). However, there was no significant difference of slower ball exercises (p >0.05). The findings support the positive effect of training program on high intensity bowling exercises, bouncer ball training and Yorker ball training, but slower ball exercises do not show any positive effects.