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The design and development of a novel training system for cricket
thesis
posted on 2018-11-13, 14:29 authored by Laura M. JusthamCricket is an established and traditional sport which is played in almost a hundred
countries worldwide. Within the domain of cricket, ball launching machines are
used in a training environment to help batsmen develop new techniques, work on
areas of weakness and face a high intensity of deliveries without the need for a
real bowler. A need has been recognised by coaches at the England and Wales
Cricket Board (ECB) for an advanced training system which incorporates the
unique requirements of cricket bowling to include a fully programmable bowling
machine which is capable of recreating any common bowling delivery and which
is synchronised with an accurate bowler representation. A number of ball-launching devices are currently available for sports training which provide a
simple means of bowling, pitching or throwing a ball to a batsman or fielder. As
technology progresses so too does the development of this equipment to produce
more realistic training conditions. However much of this development has
occurred within the domain of baseball and cannot easily be transferred into
cricket.
The research within this thesis is focused upon the development of a cricket-specific training system. [Continues.]
History
School
- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
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© Laura M. JusthamPublisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
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A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.Language
- en