Wicket-keeping in cricket is all about the reaction time as in a fraction of time the game can turn just because of a good reactive stumping or catching. The keepers who have great amount of reaction time can really fetch good results for the team; the modern greats like Adam Gilchrist, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Kumar Sangakkara and Mark Boucher are some of the examples wicketkeepers who had great reaction time. So, in this present study we wanted to see that weather practicing yoga can improve the reaction time of wicketkeepers or not?

For the purpose of the study the 10 students from the cricket match practice group was taken from Lakshmibai National Institute of Physical Education. These 10 students were practicing as regular wicketkeepers and have represented in various levels of cricketing tournaments. Out of the selected 10, 5 keepers were kept in control group and other 5 were kept in experimental group. The experimental group was given 12 weeks yoga training program and it was seen that there was a significant decrease in the reaction time of the wicketkeepers when compared with the control group (from 263± 5.74 to 216.23 ± 4.49 ms).