Problems of Injury Surveillance and Documentation in Cricket: Indian Experience

Abstract

ABSTRACT Cricket is the most prevalent and popular sport in India. Its expansion, including recent inclusion of T20 format over the last decade, has placed greater demands on cricketers and led to an increased incidence of injuries worldwide. Worldwide, in all forms of sport, successful injury prevention requires ongoing injury surveillance as a fundamental process. Unfortunately, injury surveillance is not the norm in Indian sports. We do not have any specific documentation protocol for documenting injury patterns, causative mechanisms, and analyzing the incidence of different cricket-related injuries in players of different ages except the Aclass test players. Despite being the most popular team sport in India, there is just a single publication in the medical literature reporting cricket injuries from India. This article reviews the burden of cricket injuries in both national and international perspective and emphasizes the potential and need of an injury surveillance program to improve cricket sport in India. How to cite this article Dhillon M, Garg B, Dhillon S, Prabhakar S. Problems of Injury Surveillance and Documentation in Cricket: Indian Experience. J Postgrad Med Edu Res 2016;50(3):148-150.