BACKGROUND Bone stress reaction is prevalent among cricket fast bowlers. Few studies have addressed the sensitivity and specificity of imaging for diagnosis, and follow up assessment has been poorly investigated. OBJECTIVE To determine whether there was an association between back pain and bone stress reaction as measured by computed tomography (CT) scan in young cricket fast bowlers. METHO...

Because of call frequency overlap and masking interference, the airborne sound channel represents a limited resource for communication in a species-rich cricket community like the tropical rainforest. Here we studied the frequency tuning of an auditory neuron mediating phonotaxis in the rainforest cricket Paroecanthus podagrosus, suffering from strong competition, in comparison with the same ho...

Originally designed for one-day cricket, this paper considers the use of the DuckworthLewis method as an approach to resetting targets in interrupted Twenty20 cricket matches. The Duckworth-Lewis table is reviewed and an alternative resource table is presented. The alternative table is constructed using observed scoring rates from international Twenty20 matches. A desideratum of a resource tabl...

We investigated the effect of injections of four biogenic amines (serotonin, dopamine, octopamine and tyramine) on behavior patterns displayed by workers of the red wood ant Formica polyctena during dyadic confrontations with four types of opponents: a nestmate, an alien conspecific, an allospecific ant (Formica fusca), and a potential prey, a nymph of the house cricket (Acheta domesticus). Sig...

Cricket is a popular sport played by 16 countries, is the second most watched sport in the world after soccer, and enjoys a multi-million dollar industry. There is tremendous interest in simulating cricket and more importantly in predicting the outcome of games, particularly in their one-day international format. The complex rules governing the game, along with the numerous natural parameters a...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to establish the difference in lumbo-pelvic movement control, static and dynamic balance at the start and at the end of a cricket season in pace bowlers who sustained an injury during the season and those who did not. DESIGN This is a longitudinal, observational study. METHODS Thirty-two, healthy, injury free, male premier league fast, fast-medium and medium pace...

We focus on the problem of linking event mentions in cricket match reports to instances from temporal commentary data. The problem is challenging because depending on the event type, event mentions could be linked to a single data instance, or to a set of instances. The complexity of the natural language in the reports along with a lack of canonical names or verbose descriptions of the data ins...