International consensus statement on injury surveillance in cricket: a 2016 update

Abstract

Cricket was the first sport to publish recommended methods for injury surveillance in 2005. Since then, there have been changes to the nature of both cricket and injury surveillance. Researchers representing the major cricket playing nations met to propose changes to the previous recommendations, with an agreed voting block of 14. It was decided that 10 of 14 votes (70%) were required to add a new definition element and 11 of 14 (80%) were required to amend a previous definition. In addition to the previously agreed ‘Match time-loss’ injury, definitions of ‘General time-loss’, ‘Medical presentation’, ‘Player-reported’ and ‘Imaging-abnormality’ injuries are now provided. Further, new injury incidence units of match injuries per 1000 player days, and annual injuries per 100 players per year are recommended. There was a shift towards recommending a greater number of possible definitions, due to differing contexts and foci of cricket research (eg, professional vs amateur; injury surveillance systems vs specific injury category studies). It is recommended that researchers use and report as many of the definitions as possible to assist both comparisons between studies within cricket and with those from other sports.

Incidence and prevalence of elite male cricket injuries using updated consensus definitions

“…In 2016, revised international consensus definitions have been published 17. The major definitional/method changes to highlight, particularly with respect to this study, are as follows:

A “match time-loss” cricket injury in 2005 was defined as: any injury or other medical condition that either a) prevents a player from being fully available for selection for a major match or b) during a major match, causes a player to be unable to bat, bowl, or keep wicket when required by either the rules or the team’s captain.

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“…The initial 2005 definitions contained many definitions that were not highly applicable for T20 cricket 16. A new round of consensus definitions has recently been undertaken with updated definitions published in 2016 in the British Journal of Sports Medicine 17. Recommended changes to some of the definitions now require additional injury surveillance publications using the new units and definitions.…”

Application of the subsequent injury categorisation model for longitudinal injury surveillance in elite rugby and cricket: intersport comparisons and inter-rater reliability of coding

“…All definitions and procedures used were compliant with the updated international consensus methods for injury surveillance in cricket 22. TL and NTL injuries were recorded by one designated team physiotherapist (SM) using OSICS V.10.1.…”

Injury rate and patterns of Sydney grade cricketers: a prospective study of injuries in 408 cricketers

“…This study was planned in 2015 before the updated injury consensus statement Orchard et al 53 was published later, so the most recent injury definition was not used in this study. Future studies should be designed considering the use of the updated injury consensus statement as the previous definition was limited to include only the ‘time-loss’ injuries, while any ‘medical attention’ injuries were discounted.…”