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Injury Rate and Patterns of Sydney Grade Cricketers Original article Postgrad Med J: first published as 10.1136/postgradmedj-2018-135861 on 26 July 2018. Downloaded from Injury rate and patterns of Sydney grade cricketers: a prospective study of injuries in 408 cricketers Najeebullah Soomro,1,2,3 Daniel Redrup,4 Chris Evens,4 Luke Peter Strasiotto,2 Shekhar Singh,5 David Lyle,1 Himalaya Singh,6 Rene E D Ferdinands,2 Ross Sanders2 1Broken Hill University ABSTRact longitudinal studies on injury epidemiology in this Department of Rural Health, Background The grade cricket competition, also cohort have not been reported in the literature. The Faculty of Medicine, The University of Sydney, Broken Hill, known as premier cricket, supplies players to the state probable reasons for this may be linked to more New South Wales, Australia and national teams in Australia. The players involved resources or research funding directed at the elite 2Discipline of Exercise and are generally high-performing amateur (subelite) club level, or specifically at junior and adolescent fast Sport Science, Faculty of Health cricketers. However, to date, there is no study on the bowlers, possibly due to the perception that these Sciences, The University of injury epidemiology of Australian grade cricket. cohorts have a high injury risk. Sydney, Lidcombe, New South Wales, Australia Aim To conduct injury surveillance across all teams Over the past decade, the dynamics of play at 3Adelaide Rural Clinical School, playing Sydney Grade Cricket (SGC) competition during the community cricket level have changed consid- University of Adelaide, Adelaide, the 2015–2016 season. erably, making club cricket competitions uniquely South Australia, Australia Methods A cohort study was conducted to track placed among non-contact sports, where many 4Cricket NSW, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia injuries in 408 male cricketers in 20 teams playing players participate in three distinct formats of the 5CricDoc Pty. Ltd, Sydney, New SGC competition. Players were tracked through the game, that is, T20, 1-day and multiday cricket. South Wales, Australia MyCricket website’s scorebook every week. Cricket New Each format has a different requirement of player 6 Federation University, Ballarat, South Wales physiotherapists were alerted if there were workload and intensity.3 T20, the shortest format Victoria, Australia changes to the playing XI from the last game. If any of cricket, is also colloquially termed as the ‘explo- changes were made due to injury, then an injury incident Correspondence to sive version of the game’ and it places greater phys- Dr Najeebullah Soomro, Broken was registered. ical demands and need for power and agility on the Hill University Department of Results During the course of the season, a total of 86 players.4–6 The increased physical demand results in Rural Health, Broken Hill, NSW injuries were registered from 65 players, resulting in a 50%–100% more sprints per hour in T20 cricket 2880 Australia; loss of 385 weeks of play. The overall injury incidence naj. soomro@ sydney. edu. au when compared with multiday cricket, in other rate was 35.54 injuries/10 000 playing hours with an words the changes in the physical demand can be average weekly injury prevalence of 4.06%. Lower back 3 Received 17 May 2018 termed as workload fluctuations. At the commu- Revised 29 June 2018 injuries (20%) were the most common injuries followed nity level, where the fitness and conditioning may Accepted 3 July 2018 by foot (14%), hand (13.75%), knee (7.5%) and calf not be comparable to elite cricketers, workload fluc- (7.5%). Linear regression analysis showed that the tuations may result in increasing injury rates (IRs). likelihood of injury increased as the mean age of the Among junior cricketers, the injury incidence teams increased (R=0.5, p<0.05). ranges between 24% and 34% per season for the http://pmj.bmj.com/ Conclusion The injury rate in SGC is lower than that cohort of players participating in the season, with reported at elite level. However, the high rate of lower the IRs for batters and fielders being similar to back injuries (20%) highlights an area of concern in those of bowlers.7–10 However, a 10-year injury this cohort. High workloads or inadequate physical report of elite Australian cricketers playing interna- conditioning may contribute to such injuries. This tional and state cricket showed an average seasonal study sets the foundation for understanding injury 11 injury incidence of 18.3%. For junior cricketers, epidemiology in grade cricket and examines the links on 16 August 2018 by guest. Protected copyright. injuries are common in the lower limbs, back and between injury and performance, these results may assist hands/fingers, whereas for elite adult cricketers the coaches and administrators to develop and implement common time-loss injuries include non-tendinous cricket-specific injury prevention programmes. shoulder injuries, wrist and hand fractures, side and abdominal strains, low back stress fractures, thigh and hamstring strains and shin and foot stress frac- 8 9 12 BACKGROUND tures. The high rate of cricket-related injuries More than one million Australians play cricket at the community level affects player participation, 13 annually.1 Of these, a large number play organised and place a burden on the healthcare system. © Author(s) (or their cricket at the club level. Of the 3995 cricket clubs in In NSW, the Sydney Grade Cricket competition, employer(s)) 2018. No Australia,2 about a quarter are based in New South also known as the ‘NSW Premier Cricket Compe- commercial re-use. See rights tition’, has been played for the past 120 years. It and permissions. Published Wales (NSW) and most of them are concentrated by BMJ. around the greater Sydney region showing that is the premier club cricket competition comprising the region is a major hub for cricket participation. 20 male club cricket teams from the region. To cite: Soomro N, Redrup D, Many club cricketers can be categorised as subelite According to Cricket NSW, this competition is ‘a Evens C, et al. Postgrad Med J Epub ahead of print: [please or junior cricketers, of which some may have aim of breeding ground for future NSW and Australian include Day Month Year]. becoming elite cricketers, from this point on in the representatives’. In this manuscript, grade players doi:10.1136/ manuscript players participating at the club level and grade teams refer to the players and teams that postgradmedj-2018-135861 will be referred as ‘community cricketers’. However, play in NSW Premier Cricket Competition. Each Soomro N, et al. Postgrad Med J 2018;0:1–7. doi:10.1136/postgradmedj-2018-135861 1 Original article Postgrad Med J: first published as 10.1136/postgradmedj-2018-135861 on 26 July 2018. Downloaded from grade team consists of five senior divisions, as well as restricted The regular season for each team was 28 scheduled games age group playing in the Poidevin-Gray Shield (under 21) and (including finals) played between 26th September 2015 and AW Green Shield junior competition (under 17). The season 3rd April 2016. Taking into account factors such as scheduled generally starts in September and runs for about 7 months up till byes, bad weather and competition progression, an average March of the following year. The first-grade teams (highest of 20 games were played by each team throughout the season ranking team from each club) comprises high-performing (range: 17–27). However, not all weeks had games scheduled, amateur (subelite) club cricketers, and often hosts international for example, New Year and Christmas. Therefore, in this manu- or state squad players. Good performances in the first grade may script ‘weeks’ refer to match weeks. pave a pathway for selection in elite teams. All aspects of the study were reported in accordance with In the context of cricket played at the community or subelite the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in level, ground surface characteristics such as hardness and grass Epidemiology Statement: Guidelines for reporting observational type may be linked with injuries.14–16 The conditions of home studies (see online supplementary appendix I).19 ground, practice facilities, hardness of outfield and pitch surface vary significantly from club to club and are generally a surro- Injury definition gate of the resources available to the clubs. Given each team In this study, the definition of ‘injury’ was adopted from the in the NSW Premier Cricket is based in different areas of the international consensus statement on cricket injuries Orchard et 2 greater Sydney region which covers 12 367 km and is larger al,20 which states that a ‘match time-loss’ injury is ‘any injury or than countries such as Cyprus and Lebanon, geospatial mapping other medical condition that prevents a player from being fully may assist in better understanding the injury distribution. Due available for selection for a major match’ or ‘any illness due to to topological, geographical and surface variations in the land- which the player misses one or more matches’. scape, the role of geospatial mapping has been advocated by This definition also includes injuries which ‘during a major injury epidemiologists to gain a better understanding of sports match, cause a player to be unable to bat, bowl or keep wicket 17 injuries. Geographical analysis or geospatial mapping allows when required by either the rules or the team’s captain’. epidemiologists to understand the geographical variations in the However, due to limited resources and retrospective tracking of 18 injury statistics. Moreover, to develop targeted injury preven- injuries using ‘missed match data’, we were unable to capture tion strategies, in the future, it is important to identify areas these injuries. or clusters for high injury risk. Considering the importance of grade cricket, it is vital to understand the burden of injury in IR definition (exposure hours) this competition by using traditional injury epidemiology and For the purpose of this study, IR was defined as the number of geospatial epidemiology.
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