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EDITORIAL | VOLUME 18, ISSUE 1, P1, JANUARY 2015 Download Full Issue

The pinnacle of world cricket – Research that supports the game

Gregory S. Kolt, PhD

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For those of our readers who follow and understand the game of cricket, you will no doubt agree that the ICC Cricket
World Cup to be held in Australia and New Zealand in early 2015 is the pinnacle of world cricket. As was pointed out in
an earlier editorial,1 those who do not come from the small number of countries who follow cricket, will not understand
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Given the interest in this sport in some of the countries who closely follow our journal I thought it was appropriate to
focus this editorial on the research that supports cricket. I have selected two papers that focus on cricket to include in
this issue. In the first of these papers Orchard and colleagues from Australia examined the risk of injury in cricket fast
bowlers within the context of the match workloads over the period prior to injury taking place. They found that there
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overs (i.e., 600 match balls bowled) in 17 days or less was associated with higher injury rates. Given that Australia and
South Africa are fierce rivals in cricket it would be remiss of me not to include a paper coming out of South Africa.
Olivier and colleagues (from South Africa) examined the difference in lumbo-pelvic movement control, and static and
dynamic balance, at the start and end of a cricket season to identify any differences between fast bowlers who
sustained an injury versus those who did not. They identified that lumbo-pelvic movement control could not
discriminate between injured and non-injured participants, but that single leg balance at the start of the season was
better in players who did not sustain an injury during the season.

Given the theme of this editorial and the Cricket World Cup, I highlight below a range of other cricket research we have
published in the last few years for your interest. This research has covered broad areas including biomechanics,
psychology, injury risk, muscle asymmetry, anatomy, and motor skill acquisition. For example, Stuelcken and Sinclair2
examined ground reaction forces in cricket fast bowlers, Twomey et al.3 investigated injury risk in relation to ground
hardness, White et al.4 looked at the perceptions of injury risk in junior players, Finch et al.5 carried out a prospective
cohort study of injuries, Weissensteiner et al.6 investigated the psychological characteristics of expert cricket batsmen,
and Phillips et al.7 looked at performance accuracy and variability in cricket fast bowlers. In other studies that the
Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport has published Ball and Hrysomallis8 examined ball bounce characteristics on
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Enjoy the Cricket World Cup, and as you watch the event think just for a moment about the amount of research that
goes into supporting this sport at the elite and professional level.
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