Cricket is one of the most followed sports in the Indian subcontinent. There is a wide requirement for natural language descriptions, which summarize a cricket match effectively. The process of generating match summaries from statistical data is a manual process. The objective of this paper is to propose a framework for automatic analysis and summary generation for a cricket match in Tamil, wit...

This article investigates the impacts of global legal rulings and political agreements on domestic sport, charts responses national governing bodies to these changes. The studies that impacted employment practices within professional sport. impact 2003 Kolpak ruling 2000 Cotonou Agreement movement sportspeople is analysed. Through context English county cricket, this develops Appadurai’s concep...

For insects, choosing a favorable oviposition site is a type of parental care, as far as it increases the fitness of its offspring. Niche theory predicts that crickets should show a bell-shaped oviposition response to substrate moisture. However, lab experiments with mole crickets showed a linear oviposition response to substrate moisture. Studies with the house cricket Acheta domesticus also s...

BACKGROUND Protective helmets in sport are important for reducing the risk of head and facial injury. In cricket and other sports with projectiles, national test standards control the minimum helmet performance. However, there are few field data showing if helmets are effective in reducing head injury. OBJECTIVES (a) To examine the performance of cricket helmets in laboratory tests; (b) to ex...

OBJECTIVES Retired professional cricketers shared unique experiences and may possess specific psychological attributes with potential to influence quality of life (QOL). Additionally, pain and osteoarthritis can be common in retired athletes which may negatively impact QOL. However, QOL in retired athletes is poorly understood. This study explores the following questions from the personal persp...

Chitin ranks next to cellulose as the most important bio-polysaccharide which can primarily be extracted from crustacean shells. However, the emergence of new areas of the application of chitin and its derivatives are on the increase and there is growing demand for new chitin sources. In this study, therefore, an attempt was made to extract chitin from the house cricket (Brachytrupes portentosu...

Indoor environments present opportunities for a rich set of location-aware applications such as navigation tools for humans and robots, interactive virtual games, resource discovery, asset tracking, location-aware sensor networking etc. Typical indoor applications require better accuracy than what current outdoor location systems provide. Outdoor location technologies such as GPS have poor indo...

Circadian changes in the susceptibility of adult individuals of three cricket species: field cricket (Gryllus campestris), house cricket (Acheta domesticus), and tropical house cricket (Gryllodes sigillatus) to insecticides belonging to the group of synthetic pyrethroids (Bulldock 025 EC) and oxadiazine (Steward 30 WG) were tested in 2007 and 2008. The assessment included the intoxication of su...

In this review, we critically evaluate the scientific research into the morphology and physiology of cricket batsmen. We consider all aspects of the motor control of this skill, in the context of research into dynamic interceptive actions, the biomechanics (kinematics and kinetics) of the various phases of batting strokes and injuries to batsmen. Some attention is also devoted to batting equipm...

Cricket frogs (Acris crepitans) from several different sites in Illinois were collected to assess the effects of environmental contamination on the prevalence of intersex gonads. Of 341 frogs collected in 1993, 1994, and 1995, 2.7% were intersex individuals. There was no statistically significant relationship between the chemical compounds detected and cricket frog intersexuality. However, ther...