Comparative study of flexibility in male players of different sports

Background: Fitness may be divided in three areas physical, mental and social fitness .In physical fitness flexibility is one of the very important component. Ground flexibility may increase the level of performance and low level of flexibility may produce injury proneness. The aim of the study was to compare three major joints flexibility of cricket, basket and football players. Method: 30 male university level players 10 from each sports (cricket, basketball and football) were selected conveniently for this study. For flexibility of the shoulder, trunk and lower back and ankle joint were chosen in this study for data analysis Mean, SD, ANOVA and ‘T’ test were adopted. Results: Footballers were higher in shoulder, trunk and lower back flexibility whereas cricketers were better in ankle flexibility. Flexibility of different joints very sports to sports due to the use of different joints may. Conclusion: It may be from this study footballers level of flexibility were better than basketball and cricket players. To measure the flexibility more sophisticated accurate instruments were recommended for future study.