Volume : 5, Issue : 3, March - 2016

KINEMATIC ANALYSIS OF FRONT FOOT OFF-DRIVE AT EXECUTION PHASE IN CRICKET

Avijeet Mondal, Saumitra Karmakar

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;The study was conducted in order to the kinematical analysis of front foot off drive at execution phase in cricket .Twenty randomly selected male students aged 19 to 28 years and who have participated in the C.K.Naidu Trophy from U.P Team, Players of Combined University Camp and the players of Under 22 national Cricket Championship were selected as subjects for this study. For the biomechanical analysis of selected batting skills in cricket High speed videography technique was employed. The two Casio Exilim EX-F1 high speed cameras used for this purpose. Performance of subjects was recorded in control and favourable conditions. The data were recorded from both planes i.e. Sagittal plane and frontal plane. Siliconcoach Pro 7 Softwere was used in order to obtain the values of selected angular kinematics variables ankle, knee, elbow, hip, shoulder and wrist joint and height of centre of gravity from develop stick figures feature. The data was analyzed by use of descriptive statistics. The results have shown the values of descriptive statistics of selected angular kinematics variables at downswing and impact phase in front foot off- drive the mean, median and mode for selected angular kinematic variables were nearly equal.</p>