Research Proposal

The Art of Fast Bowling and Cricket Players in

GCWUF
 A Research Proposal
On
The Art of Fast Bowling and Cricket Players in
GCWUF
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for
The degree of BS of Health & Physical Education

Submitted To
Mam Sumaira
(Lecturer of the Department of Health & Physical Education)

Submitted by
Wajeeha Muhammad
Roll No: 16-14
BS (Health &Physical Education)
Semester 6th
Government College Women University Faisalabad

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Content
 Chapter 1
 Introduction
 Research Objectives
 Research Questions
 Statement of the Problem
 Conceptual Framework
 Significance
 Research Summary
 References

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Introduction

The world of cricket is fast getting depleted of its most majestic breed of species: Fast Bowlers.
The sport is beginning to forget about its most potent tool that once adorned its armory. It seems
an almost ancient matter when the teams used to be spearheaded by battery of fast bowlers. If we
look back into the history of Cricket, we will notice that the fate of a match rested, without
exception, on the efficacy of fast bowlers, and their failure meant an almost certain defeat. The
enthralling sport we call Cricket has come a long way from its nigh obscure beginnings in some
English county to becoming a global phenomenon. The commercialization of Cricket has done
wonders to its viability as a professional sport, but has also paved the way for business moguls all
across the globe to have a decisive say in sport’s decision-making. Consequently, the decisions
that were good for the sport as a whole started to take the back seat vis-à-vis the ones that were
considered economically viable. When test cricket was at its pinnacle in the seventies, Australian
Television magnate Kerry Packer, in an urge to feed his moribund Nine Television Network with
some much needed doze of sport, inoculated the world of cricket with the most potent scepter of
greed: moolah.

Following a failed discussion with the Australian Cricket Board (ACB) pertaining to procurement
of television rights for Australia’s home Test matches, Pecker masterminded the World Series
Cricket (WSC) in 1977. Pecker used his great purchasing power to adorn the breakaway league
with big names from the international arena with the then English captain Tony Greig at the helm.
The great success of the competition made sure that cricketers no longer remain underpaid and

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that the sport attained a commercial status. Though the star-studded WSC was finally called off in
1979 after a successful second season, with the ACB finally yielding to Pecker’s inexorability, it
did however manage to completely rewrite the tenets associated with the sport. While on one hand,
WSC made cricket more competitive as the draconian schedules required much higher levels of
fitness and commitment from the players, it also shifted the game’s balance to the entertainment
side with the technicalities taking the back seat, thereby sowing seeds for the things to follow.
Consequently, night matches became very common in most nations, and one-day cricket became
the most widely followed form of the game toppling the supremacy of Test Cricket. Many attribute
the exploits of the West Indies cricket team in the 1980s to their stint in the World Series Cricket.
The incessant reformation that’s been going on post WSC in the name of commercialization is
absolutely extraneous, and is being done merely to cater to the whims of the business moguls
associated with the sport. The acquiescence shown by the governing body has yielded well on the
monetary front, but it has also cast a huge blow to the legacy of sport. It started with The curtailing
of the five-day game to give way to limited-over internationals.

The laws of Cricket were made to take a complete volte face in order to make the game supposedly
more engaging for the spectators. The even competition between the bat and ball that the sporty
wickets ensured made way for the one-sided battle on docile, batsmen friendly pitches. This lust
for moolah has most severely deterred the contingency of fast bowlers in the sport.

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Research objective
 To development fast and quick blowing.
 Fast medium blowing.
 Medium fast blowing.
 Slow medium blowing.

Research Question
1. How to development fast and quick blowing?
2. How to fast medium blowing?
3. How to Medium fast blowing?
4. How to slow medium blowing?

Statement of the Problem

There are two issues researcher could see for deaf cricket players. The pace of a bowler not only
challenges the reaction speed of the batsman, but also his physical courage. Fast bowlers are able
to exploit this by bowling bouncers, either regularly or as an occasional surprise delivery. Bowlers
are also able to get the ball to move sideways by using either spin or swing.

Conceptual framework

Independent variable Depended variable

cricket players The art of fast bowling

 Speed
 Strength

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The art of fast blowing:

There are two main factor in fast blowing:

Speed
The standard metric for the speed of light is that of light traveling in vacuum. This constant, known
as c, is roughly 186,000 miles per second, or roughly one million times the speed of sound in air.
According to Einstein's work, matter and signals cannot travel faster than c. Most pace bowlers
are medium-fast to fast in top level cricket. ... The highest electronically measured speed for a ball
bowled by any bowler is 161.3 km/h (100.23 mph

Strength
Cricket is a game that would appear to require little muscular strength. Viewed from a distance,
cricket is such a seemingly gentle pursuit that the notion of strength training and exercises would
seem to have a limited application. However, as with many sports that involve relatively lengthy
periods of low activity punctuated by intervals of extreme muscular focus, cricket is deceptively
difficult and it also presents significant physical training challenges for the athlete, especially at
an elite level. For batsmen, bowlers, and fielders, the primary energy system utilized during
competition is the anaerobic lactic and alactic processes. In the acts of bowling, batting, and
fielding, the intervals of activity requiring energy generation to power the athletes' muscles will
almost certainly be fewer than 40 seconds. As all players in cricket are at some stage of a match
called on to bat and field, much basic fitness training will be common to all players.

Significance
Cricket Centre aims to ensure each participant, irrespective of age and ability, to develop his
individual cricketing skills. By the aid of modern computer technology through video analysis, the
players are facilitated to receive individual coaching and guidance to develop their skills in all the
fields of their game. The most important objective of the CTS Cricket Academy is to develop the
players’ personal confidence and knowledge about the modern cricket techniques.

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Research summary
Researcher highlight key concepts from dynamical systems theory and complexity sciences to
exemplify constraints on talent development in a sample of elite cricketers. Eleven international
fast bowlers who cumulatively had taken more than 2,400 test wickets in over 600 international
test matches were interviewed using an in-depth, open-ended, and semi-structured approach.
Qualitative data were analyzed to identify key components in fast bowling expertise development.
Results revealed that, contrary to traditional perspectives, the athletes progressed through unique,
nonlinear trajectories of development, which appears to be a commonality in the experts'
developmental pathways. During development, individual experts encountered unique constraints
on the acquisition of expertise in cricket fast bowling, resulting in unique performance adaptations.
Specifically, data illustrated experts' ability to continually adapt behaviours under multifaceted
ecological constraints.

References
1.Stretch R, Goslin B. Validity and reliability of an objective test of cricket skills. Australian
Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport 1987.

2. Petersen CJ, Wilson BD, Hopkins WG. Effects of modified-implement training on fast bowling
in cricket. Journal of Sports Sciences,2004.

3. Weir JP. Quantifying test-retest reliability using the intraclass correlation coefficient and the
SEM. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research,2005.

4. Hopkins WG. Measures of reliability in sports medicine and science. Sports Medicine,2000.

5. National Cricket Census 2012/13. Cricket Australia, 2013