How important is being fit?

After a fitness session?

Fitness ultimately is the number one most import aspect of being a cricketer, or an athlete for that matter. Being fit will not only help you in improving your performance, it will help you in sustaining that performance over a hard days work on the cricket field. The great thing about is cricket is when it comes to fitness it is not about who is the quickest or the strongest, it is all about who can run that quick triple or chase a ball down to the boundary catch their breath and do it again the quicker without getting tired or losing pace.

Cricketers in associate countries can complain at lengths about not being able to perform at the level of some of the other nations due to lack of exposure to higher level competition on a regular basis, however, they cannot complain about not being as fit as everybody else. Fitness is a part of cricket in which any cricketer from any nation can match those at the top level.
With that said, how bad do you want it? How bad do you want to be the best cricketer in the world? How much are you willing to put out in order to be the best cricketer you can be? How much are you willing to sacrifice in order to be the best cricketer that you can be? If you have the drive, the self-motivation, no one will be able to stop you. It is way too easy to make excuses about having no time, or no access to a gym, or no body to go with you. What is harder is waking up and walking right past those excuses to achieve your dreams.