During an 11-day tournament, female cricket players experienced a match injury incidence of 1020.4 injuries per 10,000 player hours, with bowlers sustaining the greatest number of injuries.
Cohort (n=14)
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In a pilot study of a women's T20 cricket team, injury incidence was high, particularly affecting the knees and shoulders of bowlers, highlighting the need for targeted injury prevention strategies.
Background: Cricket is the world's second most popular spectator sport with the Twenty-20 form emerging as one of the most popular match formats for male and female players.Little research has been conducted into the injury profile of Women's Twenty-20 cricket.As a first step toward implementing injury reduction and prevention strategies, injury surveillance was conducted for Cricket Scotland during the Women's Twenty-20 International Cricket Council World Cup Qualifier (held from 29th August-07th September 2019).Objectives: To describe the incidence, nature, anatomical location and mechanisms of new medical attention injuries sustained by Cricket Scotland Women's Twenty-20 Team during the Women's Twenty-20 International Cricket Council World Cup Qualifier in order to best inform appropriate stakeholders regarding future injury reduction and prevention strategies.Design: Prospective cohort study.Methods: Injury data was collected prospectively by the team physiotherapist during the period 28th August-07th September 2019 for Cricket Scotland Women's Twenty-20 Team during the Women's Twenty-20 International Cricket Council World Cup Qualifier (held from 29th August-07th September 2019).Data was entered into an Excel ® (Microsoft Office Excel 2010) spread-sheet.New medical attention injuries were included and coded according to the Orchard Sports Injury Classification System, Version 10.1.Injuries were classified regarding player availability and injury severity.Following the international consensus definition, injuries were categorised by player role at time of injury, along with the activity, mechanism of injury and mode of injury onset.Calculations were made for training and match injury incidence per 10,000 player hours along with injury incidence proportion values related to anatomical location and nature of injury.Results: 14 (nine match, 5 training) new medical attention injuries were sustained during the 11 day period from 28th August-07th September 2019.Total match injury incidence was 1020.4 injuries per 10,000 player hours.Total training injury incidence was 438.6 injuries per 10,000 player hours.Contractile structures had the greatest injury prevalence (78.6%).Knee (35.7%) and shoulder (28.6%) were the most commonly injured body parts.Of all injuries, the majority were attributed to non-contact (78.6%) or overuse (78.6%) aetiologies.Bowling was the player role allocated to the greatest number of injuries: accounting for 67% of all tendon, knee (60%) and elbow (100%) injuries.Bowlers had the greatest injury incidence proportion value (0.57) compared to other specialisations.There were no time loss injuries.Conclusions : There is a need to focus on specific interventions to reduce knee injuries in this cohort due to their high prevalence, and also for tendon related injuries again due to their high prevalence and potential to adversely affect performance through their chronic nature.Players specialising as bowlers, and the technical aspects related to optimal bowling biomechanics, deserve attention as players specialising in this role sustained the greatest number of injuries.
Jim Scanlan (Mon,) conducted a cohort in Sports injuries in Women's Twenty-20 cricket (n=14). Women's Twenty-20 cricket participation was evaluated on Match injury incidence per 10,000 player hours. During an 11-day tournament, female cricket players experienced a match injury incidence of 1020.4 injuries per 10,000 player hours, with bowlers sustaining the greatest number of injuries.