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What the Cricket Calorie Calculator does
Cricket Calorie Calculator: calculates Calories Burned, Burn Rate (kcal/hour) and MET Used from Your Weight, Duration and Intensity (MET). Example: your weight 70 kg, duration 30 minutes and intensity (MET) 5 gives calories burned 175.
The Cricket Calorie Calculator takes Your Weight, Duration and Intensity (MET) and returns Calories Burned, Burn Rate (kcal/hour) and MET Used. The result recalculates on every keystroke without a button press or a page reload.
It is mostly used by someone starting a new plan. A single number is most useful as a trend over time rather than a one-off judgement.
Everything happens inside this page. Nothing you type is sent to a server, and there is nothing for us to store.
Further down the page: what each field expects, how the result is derived, and one example worked from the defaults.
What do the Cricket Calorie Calculator fields mean?
The Cricket Calorie Calculator uses 3 inputs. The form opens pre-filled, so the fastest way in is usually to overwrite the one field you actually care about.
| Field | What to enter | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Your Weight | measured in kg; accepts 30 to 200 | 70 |
| Duration | measured in minutes; accepts 1 to 480 | 30 |
| Intensity (MET) | accepts 1 to 20 | 5 |
How does the Cricket Calorie Calculator work?
Each output is derived from the inputs above in a single pass; there is no hidden state carried between runs, so the same inputs always give the same calculation.
Checks happen up front, so errors surface next to the form instead of hiding in the output.
Worked example
These are the values the Cricket Calorie Calculator loads by default, and the result it produces from them. These are the tool’s own default values and the result they produce, not an invented illustration.
| Your Weight | 70 kg |
|---|---|
| Duration | 30 minutes |
| Intensity (MET) | 5 |
| Calories Burned | 175 |
|---|---|
| Burn Rate (kcal/hour) | 350 |
| MET Used | 5.0 |
| Summary | About 175 kcal burned in 30 min of Cricket. |
MET values for cricket
Cricket averages low because most players spend most of the match relatively inactive. Fast bowling is the exception and is genuinely demanding.
| Cricket | MET | 30 min at 70 kg |
|---|---|---|
| Batting or bowling, general | 4.8 | 176 kcal |
| Fielding | 3.5 | 129 kcal |
| Fast bowling spell | 7.0 | 257 kcal |
MET values are from the 2011 Compendium of Physical Activities (Ainsworth et al., Med Sci Sports Exerc 43(8):1575-81). One MET is the energy cost of sitting quietly, roughly 3.5 ml of oxygen per kilogram per minute.
What changes the number
- A batter facing a long innings and a fielder at fine leg are not doing comparable work, despite both being "playing cricket".
- Fast bowlers cover the most ground and generate the highest peak intensities of anyone on the field.
- Match duration hugely overstates active time: apply the figure to time actually spent moving.
These figures are population averages. Individual variation of 10–20% is normal, and the compendium itself is drawn from studies with modest sample sizes. Use the result to compare activities against each other, which it does well, rather than as an exact measure of what you personally burned.
How to use it
- Put Your Weight in kg (30 to 200).
- Key in Duration in minutes (1 to 480).
- Fill in Intensity (MET) (1 to 20).
- The output refreshes live, so you can stop as soon as the number looks right.
- The results panel then shows Calories Burned, Burn Rate (kcal/hour), MET Used and Summary.
- Both Copy Link and Print capture the current state, so pick whichever suits how you file things.
What this tool does not do
- This is a screening estimate, not a diagnosis.
- Body composition, ethnicity and age all shift what a "normal" result means for an individual.
- The result reflects the moment you ran it; anything that changes over time is not tracked.
- Check that each figure is in the unit the label asks for; that is the most common source of a wrong result.
Frequently asked questions
Enter Your Weight in kg and Duration in minutes. Units are printed on the form itself. Match them and no manual conversion is needed.
Your Weight accepts 30 to 200 kg. Values outside that range are rejected with a message naming the field, rather than producing something that looks valid but is not.
With the values loaded when the page opens, calories burned comes out as 175. It recalculates the moment an input changes, which makes comparing scenarios quick.
No. The calculation is local, so no health information ever reaches a server.
It costs nothing, and there is no limit on repeat use.
Good enough to track a trend over time, not precise enough to act on a single reading. Repeat measurements under the same conditions tell you far more than one number does.