The Physical Demands of Batting and Fast （击球的物理需求和快速）.pdf

17 The Physical Demands of Batting and Fast Bowling in Cricket Candice Jo-Anne Christie Department of Human Kinetics and Ergonomics, Rhodes University South Africa 1. Introduction Even though cricket is one of the oldest organized sports, there are very few studies on the physical demands of the game (Woolmer Noakes, 2008; Christie King, 2008; Christie et al., 2008). Batting and bowling are intermittent in nature with the demands placed on the players being dictated by the type of match being played. Due to this stop-start nature of cricket, accurate assessments are often difficult and as such, research is sparse (Bartlett, 2003) and as a consequence, there are few scientifically sound training programmes for cricketers. In fact, the idea that cricketers need to be well trained is a relatively new one (Woolmer Noakes, 2008). Historically cricket players never trained as hard as other sportsmen in team based sports such as rugby and soccer and in fact, many were overweight which dispelled any reason to be trained for their sport (Woolmer Noakes, 2008). It wasn’t until the Australians (cricket) and New Zealanders (rugby) demonstrated that, by focusing on physical training, performance benefits would be derived, that this started to change. This was a direc