INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Like baseball, cricket relies on grass, dirt, wood, cork, spit, spin, drop and rise en route to either victory or loss
to track every move.Tracking statistics is nothing new
With each action, a player produces a stat that can be used to track improvement or struggle over a given period of time
necessary.India-based SeeHow transforms sports equipment into sensors to do just that, and it does so without having to alter anything on
Its sensors are baked into cricket balls and bat handles to track very specific types of data that batsmen and bowlers generate
Chandan Behera, founder and CEO of SeeHow
International spinners like Shane Warne can spin the ball up to 3,000 RPMs
(Behera says an iOS app is due this year.) During play, each action is captured in near real time for each corresponding player.For bowlers,
For batsmen, the sensor tracks swing speed and angle, where it hits on the bat, what kind of deliveries they played, what their responses
were to a particular delivery and the velocity of the ball off the bat.This data is then streamed in real time and can be read by players
and coaches alike on the app
to tell users what the reaction time is.Behera grew up playing cricket with the intention of improving enough to ensure his rise through the
particular window when he happened to look at you playing
in a new perspective to the ball itself
The experience of building such complex hardware helped me gauge the challenges we needed to build a sports operating system that will
12 cricket academies in nine countries
First-class cricketer Abhishek Bhat is a fast bowler whose speed topped at 120km
was able to get a consistent measurement of my bowling speed, session after session and day after day
I cannot overstate the impact bowling with the smart ball has had on my bowling speed.I had my first bowling session with the smart ball in
early November and I was bowling in the mid-120s, barely getting above 130kmph
Then with some technical adjustments in a couple of weeks time, I was consistently bowling close to the 130 kmph mark
to improve the way cricketers train.A company called StanceBeam has developed a system that, among other things, provides session insights,
It does so through a hardware extension that players attach to the ends of their bats and that relays data via an app.Microsoft is also in
the game of cricket analysis
The company partnered with star India cricketer Anil Kumble and his company Spektacom to enhance the reach of its sensor, which is designed
to help better engage fans and broadcasters through the use of embedded sensors, artificial intelligence, video modeling and augmented
an app.As cricket starts to find an audience beyond the Commonwealth countries and continues to draw big dollars, look for tech to play a
SeeHow is funded through a friends and family round and is currently in search of seed funding.
