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The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of yoga on selected strength variables among cricket players. To achieve the purpose of the present study, forty male cricket players from Imayam College, Trichy, Tamilnadu, India were selected as subjects at random and their ages ranged from 18 to 23 years. The subjects were divided into two equal groups of twenty each. Group I acted as yoga group and group II acted as and control group. The requirement of the experiment procedures, testing as well as exercise schedule was explained to the subjects so as to get full co-operation of the effort required on their part and prior to the administration of the study. Pre test was conducted for all the subjects on selected strength variables. The duration of experimental period was 12 weeks. After the experimental treatment, all the eighty subjects were tested on their strength variables. This final test scores formed as post test scores of the subjects. The pre test and post test scores were subjected to statistical analysis using dependant ‘t’ test and Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) to find out the significance among the mean differences. In all cases 0.05 level of significance was fixed to test hypotheses. The yoga group had shown significant improvement in all the selected strength variables among cricket players after undergoing yoga for a period of twelve weeks.