ABSTRACT

Background: Cricket is a team sport in which players have considerable demands on physiological and neuromuscular coordination to adapt to speed and performance. Training for batsmen should include the development of rapid change in direction abilities while running between wickets requires high levels of agility and functional performance. Methodology: A total number of 45 individuals were selected for the study. They were divided into three groups of 15 each. Group A was given Agility ladder training Group B was given Circuit training and Group C was given conventional exercise. Pre- and post-agility and Functional performance was assessed by the Illinois Agility test and Functional movement Screening Score. Result: For Group A, the p-value for IAT and FMS was less than 0.0005 Wilcoxon Signed Ranks test was used for within-group comparison. For Group B, , p-values for IAT and FMS were found to be less than 0.05, and thus, the Wilcoxon Signed Ranks test was used for within-group comparison. Between all three group comparisons, ANOVA tests are used. Conclusion: This study concludes that significantly greater improvement was observed in Group A which received Agility ladder training along with conventional exercise technique for the Illinois Agility test than in Group B which received Circuit training along with conventional exercise. Keywords: Agility, Agility ladder, Circuit training, and Functional performance, Batsmen
Publication date: 01/01/2026

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2026/15.1.9341