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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE POWER GRIP STRENGTH AND SLEEP ON PERFORMANCE IN CRICKET PLAYERS: A CORRELATIONAL STUDY

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Vishakha, Shikha, Anand Kumar Singh, Shalini Singh, Kanika Wadhwa
» doi: 10.48047/ecb/2023.12.si4.1660

Abstract

Cricket, or the gentleman’s game, is a very traditional, popular, and simple past time today (Shah et al., 2017). It is one of the physically demanding sports with a variety of specialties that require for a variety of abilities and forms of fitness. Cricket players must have both the hand grip strength and shoulder power necessary to perform a variety of tasks. One of the key components to playing success is strength. Athletes must possess great levels of muscular strength to compete in several sports (Sathya et al., 2016). One of a person's most fundamental biological functions is sleep. It is a procedure in which the body's tissues recuperate from metabolic activities carried out throughout the day and get ready for the following day's efficient physiological functioning (Chandrasekaran et al., 2020). The objective of the study is to check the effect of power grip strength and sleep pattern on performance in cricket players. A Descriptive Correlation study, consisted of 85 cricketer age ranging between 18-35 years and were selected based on selection criteria from Gurugram District, Haryana. All consenting players completed the Athlete Sleep Behaviour Questionnaire on one occasion and the subject's hand grip strength was measured using a hydraulic hand-held dynamometer. The result found that power grip strength and performance were two independent variables while sleep and performance are weakly correlated to each other (p < 0.05). The study demonstrated the positive correlation between sleep and performance of the cricketers, but no relation between the power grip strength and performance.

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