Richard Stretch

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.^[1]

Richard Stretch

Personal information
Born	(1952-11-26)26 November 1952 Graaff-Reinet, South Africa
Died	27 October 2014(2014-10-27) (aged 61) Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Source: Cricinfo, 1 April 2016

After retirement from cricket he became one of the world's leading researchers into cricket injury.^[2] Some of his major publications related to definitions of cricket injuries,^[3] injuries in cricket in South Africa,^{[4] [5]} batting biomechanics,^[6][7] and lumbar stress fractures.^[8]