~ 96 ~ International Journal of Physical Education, Sports and Health 2023; 10(1): 96-98 P-ISSN: 2394-1685 E-ISSN: 2394-1693 Impact Factor (RJIF): 5.38 IJPESH 2023; 10(1): 96-98 © 2023 IJPESH www.kheljournal.com Received: 13-11-2022 Accepted: 28-12-2022 Jatin Bhosle Research Scholar, Department of Sports Biomechanics, Lakshmibai National Institute of Physical Education, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India Radhika Mishra Research Scholar, Department of Sports Biomechanics, Lakshmibai National Institute of Physical Education, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India Dr. Yajuvendra Singh Rajpoot Associate Professor, Head of Department, Department of Sports Management, Lakshmibai National Institute of Physical Education, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India Corresponding Author: Jatin Bhosle Research Scholar, Department of Sports Biomechanics, Lakshmibai National Institute of Physical Education, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India A comparative study of standing broad jump performance between professional and amateur medium-fast bowlers of Indore Jatin Bhosle, Radhika Mishra and Dr. Yajuvendra Singh Rajpoot DOI: https://doi.org/10.22271/kheljournal.2023.v10.i1b.2759 Abstract A comparative study between professional and amateur medium-fast bowlers was conducted to assess the difference between the standing broad jump Performance of both groups. 40 male participants of the age group 16-19 were selected for the study. SBJ (standing broad jump) was considered the dependent variable. The health status and subjects’ willingness to participate in the study was co nsidered prior to the test. For the calculations, independent samples t-test was used with a 0.05 level of significance. Data were computed with the help of IBM SPSS 26 software. The mean performance of professional medium- fast bowlers was found to be 2.26 whereas it was 2.16 for the amateur medium-fast bowlers. On the 0.05 level of significance, the null hypothesis failed to be rejected at obtained t-value = –0.458. It was concluded that there was no statistically significant difference between both groups. Further recommendations were made for future studies. Keywords: Medium-fast, professional bowlers, amateur bowlers, cricket, standing broad jump Introduction Despite the widespread popularity of cricket worldwide and the abundance of research on the biomechanical and physiological causes of back problems, there is little data available on the anthropometric and physical fitness factors that affect fast bowling efficiency (Dennis et al., 2003; Elliott, 2000; Stretch, 2003) [3, 4, 11] . At all levels of the game, coaches are being influenced by the growing professionalism in preparing players for the physical demands of both test and one-day cricket. A review of the available literature on cricket came to the conclusion that considerably more study was necessary before the scientific foundations of the game could be fully understood (Bartlett, 2003; Krishna et al., 2019) [1, 7] . It is obvious that additional cross-sectional, longitudinal, and intervention research are needed to explore how well players are physically prepared for the demands of modern international cricket (Pyne et al., 2006) [9] . The fast-bowling motion consists of a run-up phase, a leap phase, and a landing phase on the lower limbs, when strong ground reaction forces are produced, especially at the front limb. The release of the ball comes next. Large ground reaction forces are a known risk factor for lumbar spine injury when not sufficiently dissipated (Elliott et al., 1992; Foster et al., 1989) [5, 6] . To absorb these high-impact forces with knee flexion and then extend immediately before releasing the ball to maximise efficiency and ball speed, good dynamic knee strength is necessary (Hadzic et al., 2010) [7] . To assess knee strength, Standing Broad Jump (or in some native places, Standing Long Jump) test was used as it is a reliable measure to asses lower body strength (Castro-Piñero et al., 2010) [2] . The research question was to check whether the standing broad jump differs between the level of medium-fast bowlers. Hence, this study tried to assess whether the SBJ performance differs between professional medium-fast bowlers and amateur medium-fast bowlers. Research Methodology 40 male medium-fast bowlers from the Maharaja Yeshwantrao Cricket Club in Indore were chosen for the study based on purposive sampling. They were divided into two groups consisting of 20 bowlers each.