Richard Stretch

{{Short description|South African cricketer (1952–2014)}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1952|11|26|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Graaff-Reinet, South Africa

| death_date = {{death date and age|2014|10|27|1952|11|26|df=yes}}

| death_place = Port Elizabeth, South Africa

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| date = 1 April 2016

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/47360.html Cricinfo

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Richard Stretch (26 November 1952 – 27 October 2014) was a South African cricketer. He played fourteen first-class matches for Border between 1979 and 1982.{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/47360.html |title=Richard Stretch |accessdate=1 April 2016 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}}

After retirement from cricket he became one of the world's leading researchers into cricket injury.{{cite journal |last1=Lambert |first1=Mike |title=Richard Stretch - a cricket icon (1952 - 2014) |journal=South African Journal of Sports Medicine |date=2014 |volume=26 |issue=4 |pages=98–98 |doi=10.7196/sajsm.592 |doi-broken-date=11 June 2025 |url=https://scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1015-51632014000400001 |language=en |issn=1015-5163}} Some of his major publications related to definitions of cricket injuries,{{cite journal |last1=Orchard |first1=J |last2=Newman |first2=D |last3=Stretch |first3=R |last4=Frost |first4=W |last5=Mansingh |first5=A |last6=Leipus |first6=A |title=Methods for injury surveillance in international cricket. |journal=Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport |date=March 2005 |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=1–14 |doi=10.1016/s1440-2440(05)80019-2 |pmid=15887896}} injuries in cricket in South Africa, {{cite journal |last1=Stretch |first1=RA |title=Cricket injuries: a longitudinal study of the nature of injuries to South African cricketers. |journal=British Journal of Sports Medicine |date=June 2003 |volume=37 |issue=3 |pages=250-3; discussion 253 |doi=10.1136/bjsm.37.3.250 |pmid=12782551|pmc=1724632 }} {{cite journal |last1=Stretch |first1=RA |title=Incidence and nature of epidemiological injuries to elite South African cricket players. |journal=South African medical journal |date=April 2001 |volume=91 |issue=4 |pages=336–9 |pmid=11402907}} batting biomechanics, {{cite journal |last1=Stretch |first1=RA |last2=Bartlett |first2=R |last3=Davids |first3=K |title=A review of batting in men's cricket. |journal=Journal of Sports Sciences |date=December 2000 |volume=18 |issue=12 |pages=931–49 |doi=10.1080/026404100446748 |pmid=11138983}}{{cite journal |last1=Loock |first1=N |last2=Du Toit |first2=DE |last3=Ventner |first3=DJ |last4=Stretch |first4=RA |title=Effect of different types of cricket batting pads on the running and turning speed in cricket batting. |journal=Sports Biomechanics |date=January 2006 |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=15–22 |doi=10.1080/14763141.2006.9628222 |pmid=16521620}} and lumbar stress fractures.{{cite journal |last1=Stretch |first1=RA |last2=Botha |first2=T |last3=Chandler |first3=S |last4=Pretorius |first4=P |title=Back injuries in young fast bowlers--a radiological investigation of the healing of spondylolysis and pedicle sclerosis. |journal=South African medical journal |date=August 2003 |volume=93 |issue=8 |pages=611–6 |pmid=14531122}}