This paper examines the involvement of members South Asian communities in cricket (in Bradford and Leeds, UK). The England Wales Cricket Board (ECB) identified that despite high level interest within these communities, relatively few were participating opportunities provided through ECB structures; instead, they engaged various forms ‘informal’ cricket. Using data from a small-scale survey grou...

The Pythagorean Win-Loss formula can be effectively used to estimate winning percentages for sporting events. This was initially developed by baseball statistician Bill James and later extended other researchers sports such as football, basketball, ice hockey. Although one calculate actual based on the outcomes of played games, that approach does not take into account margin victory. key benefi...

Background The choice of footwear and custom modification of footwear in fast bowling in cricket lacks biomechanical and clinical evidence. This demonstrates that despite professional advice being available, elite fast bowlers continue to wear shoes that may not be appropriate for them. The aim of this study was to investigate the biomechanical effects of three cricket shoes commonly used by fa...

What determines organ size has been a long-standing biological question. Lawrence et al. (2008) proposed the steepness hypothesis suggesting that the protocadherin Dachsous/Fat (Ds/Ft) system may provide some measure of dimension to the cells in relation to the gradient. In this paper we extended the model as a means of interpreting experimental results in cricket leg regeneration. We assumed t...

A rare case of multilevel transverse process stress fractures as a cause of low back ache in a professional cricket player has been presented. The report discusses the possible mechanism of such an injury in a cricket player and also highlights the preventive and therapeutic aspects of management in such patients. The report also stresses upon the need for early identification of such sports re...

This paper describes an application of camera motion estimation to index cricket games. The shots are labeled with the type of shot: glance left, glance right, left drive, right drive, left cut, right pull and straight drive. The method has the advantages that it is fast and avoids complex image segmentation. The classification of the cricket shots is done using incremental learning algorithm. ...

Sports persons’ performance evaluation is a critical issue. The parameters used for this purpose are vague and imprecise. We propose a fuzzy cognitive map based cricket player performance evaluator tool that uses fuzzy logic to perform computation keeping in view the relations among various input parameters. A very simple and effective graphical user interface is build to use the proposed model...

We examined the developmental activities that contribute to the development of superior anticipation skill among elite cricket batters. The batters viewed 36 video clips involving deliveries from bowlers that were occluded at ball release and were required to predict delivery type. Accuracy scores were used to create two subgroups: high-performing and low-performing anticipators. Questionnaires...

This paper reports on five species of mites of the genus Gymnolaelaps associated with ants and soil in Iran--G. artavilensis sp. nov. from Pheidole pallidula, G. laevis (Michael) and G. myrmecophilus (Berlese) from Tetramorium caespitum, G. myrmophila (Michael) from Formica sp., and G obscuroides Costa from soil. Gymnolaelaps australicus Womersley and G. hospes (Berlese) have also been reported...