Speed & Agility > Introduction
An essential element of successful cricket performance is to accelerate, change direction quickly and move your feet quickly while at the crease. This requires development of speed and agility.
In Cricket, the ability to accelerate, decelerate and rapid movements in all directions is more important than simply running fast.To analyse this element of fitness we need to consider the components of speed and agility separately. These are:
- speed strength - force required to facilitate acceleration, deceleration and change direction
- agility - ability to explosively brake, change direction and accelerate again
How can speed and agility improve my performance?
Speed and agility training is an integral part of training for all top players, and can help you successfully perform the following cricket movements.
- effective footspeed while batting
- chasing the ball
- change direction quickly
- start and stop effectively
- react to situations
- avoiding injury
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