An In-depth Appraisal of Career Termination Experiences in Professional Cricket

This qualitative study explored the career termination experiences of 9 male, retired professional cricketers, between the ages of 28 to 40 (M = 34, SD = 4.65). The participants took part in retrospective, semi-structured interviews. Data from the interviews were inductively content analysed within three transition phases of the retirement process: reasons for retirement, factors affecting adaptation, and reactions to retirement. The reasons for retirement were multicausal with the majority of the participants highlighting contractual pressures and a lack of communication as important precursors to retirement. Three main themes accounted for the factors affecting adaptation: a limited pursuit of other interests, developmental experiences and coping strategies. In terms of reactions to retirement, all of the participants reflected negatively on the termination of their career, with a sense of loss and resentment characterising the post-retirement period. The findings illustrated the sport-specific nature of career termination in professional cricket, and added further support to the emerging consensus that the distinction between voluntary and involuntary retirement is, at best, unclear

Betriebs- und Versuchsergebnisse der HYSOLAR-10-kW-Anlage zur solaren Wasserstofferzeugung.

Since April 1989 a complete photovoltaic-electrolysis test facility for solar hydrogen production and storage is investigated by DLR. It consists of a 10 kW solar generator, an alkaline prototype electrolyzer, a power conditioning unit between them, and a gas storage system for the produced hydrogen. The research and test plant was built up in the scope of the German-Saudi-arabian project HYSOLAR for investigation of the characteristics of components and the system in real solar operation. The results of experiments with single system components and the evaluation of the total system during some days with sine-wave insolation shape - selected from 180 solar operation days - will be presented