On a sticky wicket

Basic and applied research: a cricketing perspective. By Arun Sharma.per cent held Discovery only and 10.8 per cent held both. The corresponding figures for 2009 are 40.3 per cent, 45.3 per cent and 14.4 per cent. The expansion of the Linkage scheme explains the increased percentage of CIs undertaking Linkage research, but the intriguing statistic is the increase in CIs holding both Discovery and Linkage from 10.8 per cent to 14.4 per cent. Of course, this is not yet a definitive trend, but is worth watching.