Studies of Vision in Cricket—A Narrative Review

Vision is thought to play a substantial role in hitting and fielding in cricket. An understanding of which visual skills contribute during cricket play could inform future clinical training trials. This paper reviews what has been reported thus far regarding the relationship of visual skills to cric...

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Published in:Vision (Basel) 2023-08, Vol.7 (3), p.57
Main Authors: Fogt, Jennifer Swingle, Fogt, Nick
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acuity
Business metrics
Clinical trials
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive ability
Color vision
Coordinate transformations
Cricket
Information processing
Kinematics
Methods
motor skills
optometry
Review
Saccades (Eye movements)
Skills
sports vision
Training
vision
Visual acuity
visual training method
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Summary:Vision is thought to play a substantial role in hitting and fielding in cricket. An understanding of which visual skills contribute during cricket play could inform future clinical training trials. This paper reviews what has been reported thus far regarding the relationship of visual skills to cricket performance and reviews the results of clinical trials in which the impact of visual skills training on cricket performance has been addressed. Fundamental or low-level visual skills, with the exception of color vision and perhaps near stereopsis and dynamic visual acuity, are similar between cricket players and the general population. Simple reaction time has been found to be shorter in cricket players in some but not all studies. While there is mixed or no evidence that the aforementioned visual skills are superior in cricket players compared to non-players, comparisons of eye and head movements and gaze tracking have revealed consistent differences between elite cricket batters and sub-elite batters. Future training studies could examine whether teaching sub-elite batters to emulate the gaze tracking patterns of elite batters is beneficial for batting. Lastly, clinical trials in which visual skills of cricket players have been trained have in many cases resulted in positive effects on visual skills, or judgments required in cricket, or cricket play. However, clinical trials with larger and more diverse groups of participants and correlations to on-field metrics and on-field performance (i.e., domain-specific assessments) are necessary before conclusions can be drawn regarding the efficacy of vision training.
ISSN:2411-5150
2411-5150
DOI:10.3390/vision7030057