Health Benefits of Cricket

• Increase Stamina and Endurance: the constant running across the field helps to increase stamina.
• Balance: balance is also something one can improve through this sport because of the utmost concentration required while playing cricket.
• flexibility: learning to move freely is something that comes with practice in cricket, thus imporving on flexibility of an individual.
• Coordination: when catching or throwing the ball, a cricket player improves his hand eye coordination.
• Cardio: Cricket includes a lot of throwing and sprinting across the field, which is a great cardiovascular activity.
• Improved Motor Skills: Bowling, batting and catching the ball require gross motor skills. These are such activities that make the large body muscles to work.
• Social Skills: it's a great way to interact with people and its also a great way to learn to cope with winning or losing. Cricket matches can last several hours, and within that time one must work with the team in a cooperative manner to develop and initiate game strategies and win the match.
• Muscle Toning: like any other sport, cricket also helps with gaining and toning your muscles.
• Physical fitness: all the sprinting and running, which increases your physical activity level.