SOURCE NOT RECOVERED
I could not obtain the text of this abstract. Attempts made: targeted web searches for the title plus authors, for the ISB 2017 Brisbane proceedings, and for the abstract on ResearchGate and publisher pages. The ISB 2017 congress proceedings do not appear to be openly indexed at abstract level, and this item is not on Felton’s own publications site (unlike almost everything else in this cluster).
Nothing in the “Findings” section below is quoted from the 2017 abstract itself. No numbers from this item are reported anywhere in this file, because I have none.
What is known from the citation alone
- Two authors: Paul Felton (then Loughborough) and Mark King.
- Presented July 2017 at the XXVI ISB Congress, Brisbane.
- Title indicates a male-vs-female comparison of the fast bowling action.
Almost certainly the conference version of the 2019 journal paper
The full paper on exactly this question — Felton, P.J., Lister, S.L., Worthington, P.J., & King, M.A. (2019). “Comparison of biomechanical characteristics between male and female elite fast bowlers.” Journal of Sports Sciences, 37(6), 665–670 — was accepted 22 September 2018, i.e. roughly a year after this congress. Its content (55 kinematic parameters, 20 elite male vs 20 elite female bowlers, Loughborough, King as senior author) matches the 2017 title precisely. Treat the 2019 journal article as the authoritative version.
→ For all findings, numbers, and coaching cues on male-vs-female differences, read Felton 2019 — Male vs Female Elite Fast Bowlers Compared.
Its headline results (which the 2017 abstract most plausibly previewed in shorter form):
- Ball release speed 34.9 ± 1.7 m/s (men) vs 27.9 ± 1.4 m/s (women).
- Women arrive at back foot contact slower (horizontal COM velocity 5.31 ± 0.46 vs 5.76 ± 0.58 m/s).
- Women spend markedly longer between front foot contact and ball release (127.7 ± 11.0 vs 103.3 ± 11.2 ms).
- Women rotate the pelvis more between back foot contact and release (78.6 ± 15.2° vs 68.7 ± 15.3°) and arrive at release more front-on.
- Conclusion: women’s speed is generated more by trunk/pelvis rotation (“more akin to throwing”) and less by the linear-to-angular momentum conversion that characterises the male action.
What a coach should look for on video
None from this item directly — the source was not recovered, so this file supports no independent coaching cue. Use the cues in the 2019 file.
Caveats and limits
This file exists for completeness of the catalogue. It is a placeholder. If the ISB 2017 proceedings become available, this file should be replaced with a real reading; until then, do not cite any figure to this item.
Relationship to other Felton work
- Sits between Felton 2015 — Technique and Ball Speed in Female Fast Bowling (female-only regression, 5th World Congress of Science and Medicine in Cricket) and Felton 2019 — Male vs Female Elite Fast Bowlers Compared (the full journal comparison).
- Same research programme as the female-bowling strand continued by Lyons 2022 and 2023.