Strength Training for Cricket

Cricket has a great and long tradition. It is a game with a proud history, but also a game without a training culture. It has often been said that to get fit for cricket you should play cricket. This has always been enough in the past for cricketers at all levels and is perhaps a sound base on which to develop a player’s level of fitness.

However, in recent years modern cricket has woken up to the benefits of well trained and conditioned athletes. Even more recently, the advent of cricket-specific strength training is producing stronger, faster and more agile players than ever before.

In this free download, available to registered members of PP Online, we share a series of strength training tips designed to improve a cricketer's performance.