Research directions for the enhancement of women's cricket

Munro, Catherine E.; Christie, Candice J.

doi:10.1177/1747954118764102

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“…To date, there has been limited research in women's cricket [7]. Two recent studies have provided initial injury surveillance data from elite female Australian national and international cricketers over two seasons from 2014 to 2016 [8] and domestic T20 cricket (in 2016 and 2017) in England and Wales [9].…”

Section: Annual Medical Complaint Incidence (For Both Injury and Illnmentioning

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Injury and Player Availability in Women’s International Pathway Cricket from 2015 to 2019

et al. 2020

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AbstractThis prospective cohort study aimed to describe injury and illness epidemiology within women’s international pathway cricket, understanding what influences player availability in this unique context where players are contracted part-time. Approximately 8.4% of players were impacted by injury or illness during the year, with an average 2.3% of players completely unavailable on any given day. Most medical complaints occurred during training (111.2 injuries/100 players per year). Of all complaints, medical illness had the highest overall incidence (45.0 complaints/100 players), followed by hand injuries (24.7 injuries/100 players). Gradual onset injuries were most common. Overall average match time-loss complaint prevalence rate was 4.1% and average match time-loss injury incidence rate was 7.0 injuries/1000 days of play. Fielding (56.4 injuries/100 players per year) was the activity resulting in the highest average overall and time-loss injury incidence rates, though ‘other’ activities (e. g. those occurring outside of cricket participation) collectively accounted for 78.3 injuries/100 players per year. The high incidence of medical illness relative to other complaints may be a distinct feature of the women’s cricket international pathway compared to other cricket samples. The high occurrence of injuries arising from ‘other’ activities, likely due to part-time participation, presents an opportunity for targeted injury prevention strategies. Practical Implications

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Section: Annual Medical Complaint Incidence (For Both Injury and Illnmentioning

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Injury and Player Availability in Women’s International Pathway Cricket from 2015 to 2019

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“…These investigations have compared the anthropometric characteristics of males and females, the kinematic parameters associated with injury versus performance, or the kinetics of female fast bowling. To date there still remains a 'total lack of published biomechanical research' on the performance of female cricketers (Bartlett et al, 1996, Munro andChristie, 2018).…”

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Comparison of biomechanical characteristics between male and female elite fast bowlers

Felton

Lister

Worthington

et al. 2018

Journal of Sports Sciences

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This study investigated ball release speed and performance kinematics between elite male and female cricket fast bowlers. Fifty-five kinematic parameters were collected for 20 male and 20 female elite fast bowlers. Group means were analysed statistically using an independent samples approach to identify differences. Significant differences were found between: ball release speed; run-up speed; the kinematics at back foot contact (BFC), front foot contact (FFC), and ball release (BR); and the timings between these key instants. These results indicate that the female bowlers generated less whole body linear momentum during the run-up than the males. The male bowlers also utilised a technique between BFC and FFC which more efficiently maintained linear momentum compared to the females. As a consequence of this difference in linear momentum at FFC, the females typically adopted a technique more akin to throwing where ball release speed was contributed to by both the whole body angular momentum and the large rotator muscles used to rotate the pelvis and torso segments about the longitudinal axis. This knowledge is likely to be useful in the coaching of female fast bowlers although future studies are required to understand the effects of anthropometric and strength constraints on fast bowling performance.

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“…These include anthropometry (Stuelcken et al, 2007), force-velocity relationships (Torrejón et al, 2019), field of play boundary size (ICC, 2020a(ICC, , 2020b, ball size and mass (ICC, 2020a(ICC, , 2020b, bat inertial properties, incoming ball speed (Felton et al, 2019), and the characteristics of fielders. Coaching practices and training experience may also differ due to funding, professional status, and perceived or real differences in the above constraints (Fowlie et al, 2020;Munro & Christie, 2018). A kinematic comparison of male and female cricket batters of a similar relative competitive level can highlight the combined effects that these various influences have had on the emerging movement solutions, while readily available anthropometric factors such as body height and mass can be controlled for within any comparison (Nimphius, 2019).…”

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Comparing power hitting kinematics between skilled male and female cricket batters

McErlain-Naylor

Peploe

Grimley

et al. 2021

Journal of Sports Sciences

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Organismic, task, and environmental constraints are known to differ between skilled male and female cricket batters during power hitting tasks. Despite these influences, the techniques used in such tasks have only been investigated in male cricket batters. This study compared power hitting kinematics between 15 male and 15 female batters ranging from university to international standard. General linear models were used to assess the effect of gender on kinematic parameters describing technique, with height and body mass as covariates. Male batters generated greater maximum bat speeds, ball launch speeds, and ball carry distances than female batters on average. Male batters had greater pelvis-thorax separation in the transverse plane at the commencement of the downswing (β = 1.14; p = 0.030) and extended their lead elbows more during the downswing (β = 1.28; p = 0.008) compared to female batters. The hypothesised effect of gender on the magnitude of wrist uncocking during the downswing was not observed (β = −0.14; p = 0.819). The causes of these differences are likely to be multi-factorial, involving aspects relating to the individual players, their history of training experiences and coaching practices, and the task of power hitting in male or female cricket.

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Research directions for the enhancement of women's cricket

Cited by 14 publications

References 40 publications

Injury and Player Availability in Women’s International Pathway Cricket from 2015 to 2019

Injury and Player Availability in Women’s International Pathway Cricket from 2015 to 2019

Comparison of biomechanical characteristics between male and female elite fast bowlers

Comparing power hitting kinematics between skilled male and female cricket batters

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