Re: World Cup - 2019
Reply #21 –
As an aside, there is a radical change coming to cricket out of India's IPL.
The batsmen just drop their bats and run without them!
They've done a study over there relating to carrying the heavy bats preferred by players in the IPL. It has allegedly shown the time gain by not carrying the bat exceeds any the advantage lost but not having it to reach for the crease. It's not just the weight of the bat, but the change in gate when you carry something while running that has an effect.
It's not clear where this sits in the rules or how it will be governed when it starts happening, but you should see it first appear in the later overs. They will dress it up to look like an accident that the player running to the danger end drops their bat!
So;
- The weight of the bat affects acceleration and deceleration, the gain is multiplied greatly running more than a single, 2s, 3s or 4s benefit the most.
- Carrying the bat affects running gate.
In Women's cricket the benefit is even greater, as some of the gain is apparently proportional to the bat's weight over the player's body weight!
We shouldn't be surprised, baseball has known this for years!
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