Published 2019-10-01
“…Background: The aim of this investigation was to compare the type of cricket balls utilized and
innings on cricket batting performance in the First-Class Australian competition.Methods: Batting performance measures of 43 state level cricket batters were collected from two seasons of the Sheffield shield tournament (N = 60 games) that incorporated both Kookaburra™ (n = 30 games) and Duke™ (n = 30 games) cricket balls.Results: First-
innings batting performances were significantly greater for the average number of runs scored (37.
5 ± 13.4 vs. 31.2 ± 11.3), balls faced (60.7 ± 26.2 vs. 49.9 ± 23.6), boundary 4s (3.8 ± 1.9 vs. 2.9 ± 1.4), and boundary 6s (0.2 ± 0.3 vs. 0.1 ± 0.3) scored per game (p < 0.05), as well as centuries scored (
5.74 ± 8.56 vs. 1.49 ±
5.14%) compared to second
innings performances (p < 0.05). …”
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