Travancore Analytics
 

AI-based Cricket Coaching Platform

Data-Driven Sports Coaching

Overview

Cricket is a game of strategy that requires strong, well-timed tactics and regular practice to succeed. Hence, cricket coaching plays a vital role in developing a player’s tactical acumen. But cricket coaching always falls short, with the players not being able to understand what went wrong or how they should improve. With this purpose in mind, we developed a mobile application with AR features integrated with the client’s AI-based algorithm to identify the cricket items, their position, and space to effectively coach participants in cricket coaching camps. With the AI-based cricket coaching platform in hand, the coaches can record the game sessions, create teams, and analyze each delivery after the game with an AR overlay describing the ball’s trajectory and other parameters like speed, swing, etc. Based on this, the coaches can guide the participants on training sessions for effective training.

  • Cost-effective way for analyzing cricket matches
  • Visualize the ball path like the Hawk-Eye computer vision system using mobile phones
  • Visualizes the stumps and ball path with AR overlays
  • Tag batsmen and bowlers to their respective deliveries
  • Create a team and add members to collaborate
  • Share the deliveries on social media and other platforms like WhatsApp

Case

Sports like cricket are fun, not only for the people who are playing but also equally thrilling for the fans who are watching. Cricket and cricket fans have a deep connection with each other, and they wish to see every bit of the game without missing any details. Fans storm the stadiums to watch their favorite game in real-time. Those who cannot make it to the grounds set aside their days to watch the games on television or streaming channels that cover each and every part of the game. 

Over the years, televisions and streaming platforms have devoted their best technology to capturing all the critical moments from replays of crucial game moments and showing it to the eagle-eyed fans who are watching the game. While we love the details provided by these entertainment platforms, we often forget the hefty amount it takes to cover such details: the ultra-motion cameras, spider cams, stump cams, drones, various replay and analysis technologies applied, technologies like Augmented Reality (AR) implemented for graphics and visualization, various our data and visualization things happening in the back-end, then all this data is streamed. 

While many make it to the cricket teams, there are many left with the dream to join the team. And they join the coaching centers to make their passion their life. But in coaching centers, setting up such a huge infrastructure that is seen for real-life games to train the players requires huge time and investment. But how can coaching sessions be more productive without the hefty investment? It is this thought of our client that became a game changer with a revolutionary AI-based app for cricket coaching for tracking and recording the game on a smartphone that can help sports coaching centers train their players so they can record the entire game played on a mobile device, and the app in itself will detect the details of the game and will create the replay with AR overlays of the major moments of the game such as the fours, sixes, wickets, etc. 

Challenges

Often, cricket coaches find it difficult to efficiently train their players as they could not make it clear to the players exactly what they were doing was wrong as they could not see where they were making the mistake. The coaches may be able to see every player and think and note all the mistakes they have made. They might, in most cases, miss some grave mistakes that might not have been observed. If not pinpointed, these mistakes can go on lifelong with the player and might take a long time to unlearn. Also, coaches are also humans; they might have noticed a mistake in the player, but they might have missed that that might have missed out on their memory to mention it to the player. Well, there is the possibility to record the videos, but the huge amount of mounting data with no specific indication of where exactly to check and running through the entire length of the video itself is time-consuming with no useful output. The lack of a tool to streamline all the details of the game is vital for coaching centers in order to avoid mistakes and solidify the player with thorough learning and proper feedback.

Some of the major challenges faced by cricket coaches include:

  • Inefficiencies in manual review
  • Lack of real-time feedback
  • Struggle to provide consistent and timely feedback
  • Difficulty in identifying real-time errors
  • Failure to provide personalized insights into a player’s technique to specific game outcomes

Solution

Travancore Analytics developed an innovative AI-based mobile application for cricket coaching platform integrated with their AI-based analytics. A fully AI-based analytical application, which is the first of its kind technology, with the possibility of ball tracking, speed, spin, and pitch on a smartphone without any exorbitantly costly machines tracking the game. The expensive computer vision-enabled Hawk-Eye of the game can be watched, rewatched, studied, and analyzed with utmost finesse from a smartphone. All the user has to do is download the app from the Play Store, get a free subscription, and you are good to go. Every precise detail of the game, from ball-tracking analytics to instant replays, is in just a click. The phone camera will record the game sessions and use those as inputs for Machine Learning (ML) to analyze the game trends and gather detailed reports of each delivery. The application also enables its users to create teams and invite other players or collaborators to share the experience.

The AI-based app for cricket coaching provides the following features:

  • Affordable, automated ball tracking and statistics directly from a smartphone
  • Automatic highlights of batting performance based on line and length
  • Cloud storage to manage and preserve video data without consuming phone memory
  • Easy sharing of recorded sessions with teammates
  • Engaging features such as speed and pitch maps 
  • Automatic generation of ball-by-ball highlights for detailed match analysis

Impact

The AI-based cricket coaching platform is the first-of-its-kind solution that is set to transform cricket coaching approaches. Reducing the significant investment in infrastructure required for performance analysis of players and enhancing efficiency in analyzing players by eliminating the manual review processes, the AI-based cricket coaching platform opens new doors to cricket coaching, making it accessible through smartphone devices. 

The impact of the AI-based app for cricket coaching includes:

  • Enhanced coaching efficiency with AI to track, record, and analyze performances
  • Precise real-time analytics on ball trajectory, speed, spin, and pitch 
  • Instant replays and video reviews for improvement
  • Data-driven approach for better coaching
  • Reduced need for manual reviews 
  • Cost-effective training without expensive equipment

Expertise

At Travancore Analytics, sports and entertainment is one of our niche areas, in which we have immense expertise. Ranging from Mobile solutions, Extended Reality (XR) to streaming-based solutions, Travancore Analytics has been at the forefront of the VR live streaming of various sports events to the AR solutions for many other prestigious events for a wide range of XR headsets, such as Vision Pro to Meta Quest devices. In addition to being a solution provider, we have also developed a streaming platform.