A British Indian surgeon’s research into cricket bat design

A British Indian surgeon’s research into the design of a cricket bat aimed at mitigating its dominance over the ball and maintaining balance between the two has been incorporated into the game’s official laws and will be enforced from October 1 this year.

Chinmay Gupte, an orthopaedic surgeon specialising in sports injuries and senior lecturer at Imperial College London, co-led a team at the college to assess cricket bat performance.