Richard Stretch (26 November 1952 – 27 October 2014) was a South African

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er. He played fourteen first-class matches for

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between 1979 and 1982. After retirement from cricket he became one of the world's leading researchers into cricket injury. Some of his major publications related to definitions of cricket injuries, injuries in cricket in South Africa, batting biomechanics, and lumbar stress fractures.

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