Benefits of playing cricket

Undoubtedly the most popular sport in Bangladesh is Cricket. Here are some benefits of playing cricket :

Health benefits of cricket

Although there is some standing around, to play cricket you need to be fit and strong, and have good hand-eye coordination and ball-handling skills. Cricket involves sprinting between wickets and running to stop balls, as well as bowling and throwing.

Health benefits include:

• Increased 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 improving 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 bowling requires you to be constantly up and running, which increases your physical activity level.

Other benefits of cricket

As well as physical health benefits, cricket can also bring other benefits and opportunities such as:

• Team skills
• Social skills such as cooperation, communication and learning how to cope with winning and losing
• Social interaction – it’s a great way to meet new people and make new friends.

Playing competitive cricket

Although we are software engineer,  we play cricket in our weekend. Playing competitive cricket is a popular way to keep fit and have fun.  Before you decide whether competitive cricket is right for you, remember that:

• Cricket is a team sport. It’s important you are up for some company and for communicating with others.
• Cricket clubs will mostly hold matches on the weekends, both Saturdays and Sundays.
• Playing competitive cricket usually involves committing to regular matches or practice sessions.
• Umpiring and scoring are other ways to become actively involved in competitive cricket.

reference (https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-advantages-of-playing-cricket)