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The purpose of the present investigation was to find out the effect of aerobic training programme on se- lected physical fitness variables among school cricket players. To achieve this purpose of the study, thirty male students were selected from Sri Jeyandra Saraswathi Maha Vidyalaya Matriculation higher secondary school and their age ranged between 16 to 18years. The selected subjects were divided into two group's namely aerobic training and control groups of fifteen each. The experimental group I underwent aerobic training for 12 weeks, five days a week, whereas the control group maintained their daily routine activities and no special training was given. The following variables namely, muscular strength and power were selected as criterion variable and tested by using, sit-ups for strength and standing broad jump for power. All the subjects of the two groups were tested on selected dependent variables at prior and immediately after the training programme. The pre and post-test scores were statistically examined by applying the analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) for each and every selected variable separately. In all cases 0.05 level of confidence was fixed as the level of significance difference. Aerobic training shown significant improvement after the completion of training programme of twelve weeks in all selected variables such as muscular strength and power among school cricket players.