An assessment of the physical fitness demands of one day cricket using global positioning system tracking software
Year: 2017
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Cricket is a highly technically skilled-based game, which consists of four distinct disciplines (batting, bowling, fielding, and wicket keeping) with varying physiological and biomechanical demands.There are three standardized professional versions of the game, namely, test match or multi-day cricket, limited overs or one-day cricket and Twenty-20 or T20 cricket.One-day games consist of two innings with each team getting a chance to bat and bowl.One innings encompasses fifty overs and the game generally lasts for approximately 6 hours.Although research has been conducted on the physical demands of cricket, not many studies compare the differences of these demands between different playing positions.Furthermore, there is a lack of research around the differences between professional and amateur level cricket players.This study was conducted in the Western Cape, South Africa, and utilized arithmetical data to analyse the physical demands of one-day games and training sessions preceding these games.A University team (amateur) and Provincial teams (professional) were used to collect data for this study.A one-way ANOVA was conducted to test for differences between sub-disciplines (batsmen, fast bowlers, spin bowlers, fielders, and wicket keepers) in terms of their training loads and match loads.A post-hoc Tukey test was done to establish which means were significantly different from each other with the level of significance set at p<0.05.Results gathered from this study revealed that there are significant differences across all playing positions in terms of movement patterns, movement variables as well as physiological responses during training and one-day games at both university and http://etd.uwc.ac.
Author: Zane Webster
Language: English
Subfield: Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2888381553