Abstract
ObjectivesTo examine the relationship between injuries and team success in professional cricket. DesignProspective cohort analysis. MethodsA prospective cohort of all match time-loss injuries and County Championship point tallies for nine seasons (from 2010 to 2018 inclusive) for all 18 First-Class County Cricket (FCCC) cricket teams in England and Wales. Two injury measures of match time-loss injury incidence and burden were assessed for within-team (linear mixed model on season-to-season changes) and between-team (correlation on differences averaged over all seasons) effects. County Championship league points tally was used as the measure of team success. ResultsA moderate negative correlation was found between injury burden and team performance (r=−0.36; 90% CI −0.66 to 0.05; likely negative, P=0.15). A reduction in match injury incidence of 2 match time-loss injuries per 1000 days of play (90% CI 1.4–2.9, P=0.10) within a team, or a reduction in match injury burden of 75 days per 1000 days of play (90% CI 50–109, P=0.053) in any given season was associated with the smallest worthwhile change in County Championship points (+13 points) for Division 1, but not for Division 2. ConclusionModerate reductions in injury burden are associated with potentially worthwhile effects on performance for a domestic cricket team in the County Championship Division 1.
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