Abstract
Adolescent individuals sustain the majority of their injuries while playing sport. Injuries can result in sport dropout, incur costly medical expenses and reduce athletic performance. In cricket, pace bowlers sustain the most injuries of all players and adolescent pace bowlers are particularly prone to non-contact low back, shoulder and lower-limb (groin, hamstring, knee and ankle) injures. The non-contact nature of these injuries makes them a suitable target for exercise-based injury prevention. Exercise-based injury prevention programs (IPPs) have been successfully developed for community-level athletes in other sports, however, a specific program for adolescent pace bowlers has not been published. The aim of this study was to therefore develop an exercise-based IPP for adolescent pace bowlers competing at the community-level.