Test cricketers score quickly during the 'nervous nineties': Evidence from a regression discontinuity design.

The 'nervous nineties' is a well-known cricket colloquialism that implies that batting within reach of 100 runs is mentally demanding. Despite common acceptance of this phenomenon, no study has used a historical test cricket dataset to examine how batting behaviour and performance changes...

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Main Authors: Leo Roberts, Daniel R Little, Mervyn Jackson, Matthew J Spittal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287700