Batting with occluded vision: An in situ examination of the information pick-up and interceptive skills of high- and low-skilled cricket batsmen

Muller, S. and Abernethy, A. B. (2006) Batting with occluded vision: An in situ examination of the information pick-up and interceptive skills of high- and low-skilled cricket batsmen. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 9 6: 446-458.


Author(s) Muller, S.
Abernethy, A. B.
Title Batting with occluded vision: An in situ examination of the information pick-up and interceptive skills of high- and low-skilled cricket batsmen
Journal name Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport
Publication date 2006
Sub-type Article
Volume number 9
Issue number 6
ISSN 1440-2440
Start page 446
End page 458
Total pages 13
Editor(s) C. Finch
Place of publication St Peters, NSW
Publisher Elsevier Australia
Collection year 2006
Language eng
Subject C1
321402 Biomechanics
750203 Organised sports
321499 Human Movement and Sports Science not elsewhere classified
Abstract The capability of cricket batsmen of different skill levels to pick-up information from the pre-release movement pattern of the bowler, from pre-bounce ball flight, and from post-bounce ball flight was examined experimentally. Six highly skilled and six low-skilled cricket batsmen batted against three different leg-spin bowlers while wearing liquid crystal spectacles. The spectacles permitted the specific information available to the batsmen on each trial to be manipulated such that vision was either: (i) occluded at a point prior to the point of ball release (thereby only allowing vision of advance information from the bowler's delivery action); (ii) occluded at a point prior to the point of bat[ bounce (thereby permitting the additional vision of pre-bounce ball flight); or (iii) not occluded (thereby permitting the additional vision of post-bounce bat[ flight information). Measurement was made on each trial of both the accuracy of the definitive (forward-backward) foot movements made by the batsmen and their success (or otherwise) in making bat-bat[ contact. The analyses revealed a superior capability of the more skilled players to make use of earlier (pre-bounce) bat[ flight information to guide successful bat-bat[ interception, thus mirroring the greater use of prospective information pick-up by skilled performers observed in other aspects of batting and in other time-constrained performance domains. (c) 2006 Sports Medicine Australia. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keyword(s) Sport Sciences
 
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