Quintic, India and Bangalore’s Finest Cricket Academy – KIOC
February 3rd, 2010 | Cricket, Quintic Video SoftwareKarnataka Institute of Cricket, popularly known KIOC is the first cricketing academy in India to be using Quintic Video Analysis software. During a recent visit to the UK, Mr Irfan Sait who started coaching cricket in 1995, undertook training and installation of the Quintic software.
KIOC operates throughout the day as many senior state cricketers utilize the facility for specific training. The five bowling machine’s available at the Institute are a great boon to the trainees – beginners as well as professional cricketers can make good use of the facilities. With the Quintic Video analysis facility and the Gray-Nicoll’s software available at KIOC it is a dream come true for any aspiring cricketer.
Irfan Sait, started Coaching in 1995 after visiting various clubs and academies in Australia. He has played in every division of the Karnataka Cricket league (from the sixth to the first division) He also played the Times Shield in Mumbai. Over the years he has developed “KIOC” into the best Cricket academy in Bangalore. To the day he remains a humble servant to Karnataka Cricket.
Mr Irfan Sait (KOIC) and Australian Cricket Captain, Rick Ponting
The KIOC ”Cricket Academy in Bangalore” provide visitors from abroad with programs tailored to meet their personal needs. This may include Fitness, Physiotherapy, Injury Prevention, Psychology, Captaincy and Tactics as well as the usual batting, bowling and fielding coaching. It doesn’t matter if you are in India for a week or for one year, you will go home a much improved cricketer. The cricket academy has visitors from countries such as Sri Lanka, Canada, Dubai, U S A and the U K.
Top Karnataka cricketers including the likes of Bharath Chipli, Deepak Chowgale and more recently CM Gautam have been groomed at our “Cricket academy”. The Indian Women’s team regularly train at the KIOC facility under the watchful eyes of Mr Irfan Sait. The impact “KIOC” has had on Karnataka cricket is immeasurable, rolling out high performance cricketers year after year.
KIOC – Bangalore’s finest cricket academy is thoroughly equipped with latest cricket accessories and equipments. We have introduced 5 Bowling Machines, Quintic Digital Video analysis equipment and Software, Speed check gun / Radar, Multi-Gym, 16 “BOX TYPE” nets, Many other Training Aids. Hostel Facility for overseas and outstation trainees including an indoor facility during the summer months.
For further information, please contact: Mr Irfan Sait – Mobile +9198444 74743, Office 080 3247 3434. cricketkioc@hotmail.com
Camp Location :
Karnataka Institute Of Cricket,
R B A N M’s Ground,
Opp Ajanta Theatre,
Near Commercial Street / Ulsoor Lake,
Shivaji Nagar, Bangalore – 560001.
Mailing Address:
Karnataka Institute Of Cricket,
Ground Floor ‘A’,
Casa Miller Apartments,
Nandidurga Road,
Benson Town, Bangalore – 560046.
Murali’s feats thrown into confusion by ICC expert
November 11th, 2007 | Cricket, Quintic Video SoftwareTime for Action? Last 300 Test scalps ‘open to scrutiny’ cliams human-movement specialist…
By Stephen Brenkley – Cricket Correspondent
THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 11th November 2007
Any day now, one of the greatest of all cricket records will be broken. It has changed hands regularly in the past 10 years but this time it will be different, this time the man holding it will do so for an extremely long time. For ever should not be ruled out.
As of yesterday, Muttiah Muralitharan, the Sri Lankan off-spinner, needed seven more Test wickets to overtake Shane Warne’s total of 708. Since he is only 35, has an insatiable appetite for dismissing batsmen and the next man on the list has 566 wickets, the conclusion that he will be hard to catch is obvious.
So prolific is Muralitharan that it is hardly fanciful to suggest he might go past 1,000 wickets. It has taken him 114 matches to get this far (Warne, pictured, played 145) and if he continues his present rate of progress he would reach four figures in another 48 matches, probably shortly before his 40th birthday.
It has been a phenomenal achievement, and it should be a moment of glorious celebration in the next two weeks in Australia or next month against England in Kandy. Instead, the applause, though loud, will be accompanied by some vigorous head-shaking at the back.
For as long as he lives, Murali, an engaging man and fierce competitor, will never rebut the conviction in some quarters that his action is illegal; that, not to put too fine a point on it, he throws. The allegation, disproved at least twice by a combination of slow-motion film and human-movement specialists, has blighted his career. Nothing in cricket, and perhaps in all sport, evokes greater emotion than the bowler who is branded a chucker. Wife-beaters have had a better press.
Anybody hearing any random discussion about Murali would assume that innuendo was a new type of mystery delivery. The topic of his bizarre but compelling action and whether it falls within the realms of legality under Law 24.3 – much less arcane than once it was – is ever-present wherever he performs. As his method is also allied to spellbinding accuracy, it simply begs to be addressed, and the fact that, statistically, he will take Test bowling to new horizons only exacerbates the matter.
Nor is it only those who follow cricket from the stands. Several more closely involved in the game have niggardly opinions on the action. Some international umpires think it is illegal but would not dare say so publicly or officially for fear of imperilling their own careers. Dr Paul Hurrion, of the International Cricket Council’s expert panel of human-movement specialists, is as dispassionate as they come. But he understands why Murali generates such emotion.
“I have no problem at all with his first 400 wickets in Test cricket when he was bowling only the off-break, but possibly some of them since then would be open to scrutiny,” he said. “I think it would be good for Murali and the game if he went through the system again. I think his standard off-break is fine, but every so often other deliveries might be open to doubt, though it is very difficult to judge with the naked eye. By now it would be difficult for anybody to put their head above the parapet.”
There are several elements to the controversy about Murali’s action, and because he has a corkscrew wrist and a congenitally bent right arm they have invariably been made more complicated. His standard off-break, as Hurrion has it, meets the law’s requirements. But whether it always did so is doubtful.
Under regulations introduced in March 2005, bowlers are allowed a 15-degree bend in the arm. Cynics suggest that this limit was agreed purely for Murali – that had it been, say, five degrees, which was the limit Hurrion set for spin bowlers when he devised his Quintic computer video software in 2001, he might have been in trouble.
Murali has been no-balled seven times by Darrell Hair for throwing, when Sri Lanka played Australia in a Test at Melbourne in 1995, and once by Ross Emerson, in a one-day international against England in Adelaide in 1999, when all hell broke loose. In the latter case at least there was certainly a hint of the man in the figurative white coat doing some grandstanding. The effect has been that Murali, a sensitive fellow, has always struggled in and against Australia.
If Murali successfully comes under the 15-degree level of extension – and Hurrion is adamant on the point – he made life more difficult for himself by developing the doosra. This is the off-spinner’s wrong ‘un, the ball that spins from leg to off to a right-handed batsman (it means “the other” in Urdu and Hindi).
It was lethal, and marvellous to see, but its relationship to bowling was slender at best. He was told to stop deploying it but the feeling has grown that he is untouchable. After so long, that is perhaps as it should be.
“It is supposed to be an ongoing process,” said Hurrion. “You can come through the system and you could still be called in the next game, though that doesn’t tend to happen. The last thing you learned is always the first thing under pressure that you forget. I would like the ICC to put in place a system where bowlers, if necessary, can be reported from the ground. There are enough cameras in place. Say something happened in the morning, it could be done with by lunchtime.”
The probability is that Murali will live out his career with no more official censure. The ICC, who now ensure that actions are monitored before players reach senior level, received no reports this year about dodgy actions.
Murali has gone beyond that. Against all but Australia (55 wickets at 31.41 compared to 702 overall at 21.51) he has been supreme, a freak and a wonder of the age. And soon, and for a very long time, he will look down on every other bowler there has been. A lesser man might use his bent arm to display two fingers.
Hick’s Golden age – Analyse his technique with ‘Batting Mechanics’
June 10th, 2007 | Cricket, Quintic Video Software
The Worcestershire batsmen Graeme Hick needs 49 runs this week to join an elite club of cricketing legends in the 40,000 club. He will become only the 16th batsman in history to reach 40,000 first-class runs.
Already, in all professional cricket, only Graham Gooch (67,057) has scored more runs and only Sir Jack Hobbs more hundreds (197) than Hick, whose tallies stand at 62,115 runs and 174 centuries.
Graeme Hick is the co-author of the QuinticCricket. The CD incorporates video footage of all the correct techniques and visual shapes of the various batting shots. It is an invaluable coaching tool as it enables a coach and player to analyse technique in fine detail. It caters for players of all standards giving instruction on how to play all the different shots with accompanying video & audio footage. It also contains coaching games & drills that can enhance cricket awareness and maximum activity.
Batting Mechanics also allows video footage of a player to be viewed and compared through the Quintic Software. A variety of coaching drills, as performed in this manual are proven methods and short cuts to enhance and develop the various batting shots. You can also watch Graeme demonstrating a number of shots that have help make him one of the most successful batsmen in the English game.
For further information regarding ‘Batting Mechanics’ please visit: www.quinticcricket.com
The 40,000 club
1: J Hobbs (1905-34) 61,237 av 50.65
2: F Woolley (1906-38) 58,969 40.75
3: E Hendren (1907-38) 57,611 50.80
4: C Mead (1905-36) 55,061 47.67
5: W G Grace (1865-1908) 54,896 39.55
6: W Hammond (1920-51) 50,551 56.10
7: H Sutcliffe (1919-45) 50,138 51.95
8: G Boycott (1962-86) 48,426 56.83
9: T Graveney (1948-71) 47,793 44.91
10: G Gooch (1973-2000) 44,846 49.01
11: T Hayward (1893-1914) 43,551 41.79
12: D Amiss (1960-87) 43,423 42.86
13: C Cowdrey (1950-76) 42,719 42.89
14: A Sandham (1911-37) 41,284 44.82
15: L Hutton (1934-60) 40,140 55.51
16: G Hick (1983-) 39,951 52.56
Graeme Hick : 134 centuries, 152 fifties, 507 matches, 840 innings, 80 times not out, 405 highest score!
Sunday 17th June 2007 – Graeme Hick became the 16th player to reach 40,000 first-class runs by making 49 against Warwickshire. Hick adds another accolade to his career – and he is the first man to pass the milestone since Graham Gooch 13 years ago. “For someone who has achieved as much as he has in the game, to still have the drive, work ethic and hunger is great,” said his captain Vikram Solanki. “It takes a particular type of character and personality to be able to do it. As a player, he is the ultimate professional. He is still in fine shape. He has always looked after himself, he is still fit, still works hard, probably harder than anyone else now. He is an amazing guy.” Maybe the moment got to him, but Hick fell straight after passing the landmark when he was caught behind off Dale Steyn. Nevertheless, Worcestershire moved to a 56-run lead just when they were all out on the stroke of stumps at Edgbaston- thanks largely to Stephen Moore’s 112 – as the game heads towards a draw.
“Fast Forward” Quintic video analysis system for scrutinising technique and injuries
December 2nd, 2006 | Cricket, Quintic Video Software
Quintic software provides video analysis of technique for athletes and coaches. Lines, angles, alignment guides and point trajectories can be created to indicate patterns of movement. Linear speeds and accelerations, for example regarding ball release speed, can be calculated for detailed analysis of technique.
This analysis allows the user to compare technique of current practice (left) with best practice (right), together with verbal instruction and biomechanical analysis to improve coaching effectiveness. A great deal can be learned from video analysis, with the benefits applicable to all levels of performance.
The software was developed through work with fast-medium bowlers from Sussex along with members of the British Athletics squad involved in throwing disciplines. It is now used by a number of sports bodies, including the English Table Tennis Association, UK Athletics, British Swimming Association and Charlton Athletic as well as the ECB, Sussex, Somerset, Northamptonshire and Hampshire.
In February 2002, Hampshire acquired the Quintic video analysis system as a tool for coaching their Academy players. “The two individual players who benefited most from the system were fast bowlers Chris Tremlett and leg-spinner Ian Hilsum,” said cricket development officer Mark Garaway. “Chris has had serious problems with an injured back. With the help of video analysis, we were able to enhance Chris’ bowling action and the height of release. He took 20 first-class wickets last season and has been rewarded with a place on the National Academy”.
Hilsum is a promising leg-spinner who benefited from working with Shane Warne in 2002. The technical advice that Warne gave to Hilsum was later monitored using the Quintic system. “Shane and Ian worked together four or five times,” said Garaway. “But the ongoing influences of video analysis allowed Ian to access technical information and compare himself to Shane…
Quintic x4 Image still capture
Fifty-five bowlers marked for modification of action
June 28th, 2006 | Cricket, Quintic Video Software
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) will assist 55 bowlers found to have suspect actions in domestic cricket to rectify their faults with the help of a newly-constituted committee.
The Bowling Action Committee is made up of a combination of ex-internationals and umpires, including Mudassar Nazar, Iqbal Qasim, Nazir Junior, Anwar Khan, Khizar Hayat, Shahid Aslam and Aaqib Javed.
Following a meeting held on Monday, it has been decided that the bowlers will be divided into four groups and each bowler’s action will be recorded on video. The videos will be forwarded to the National Cricket Academy (NCA) for biomechanical analysis using Quintic Biomechanics Software. After confirmation that the action is illegal, remedial action will be carried out under the supervision of the committee members.
The bowlers have been divided into four regional groups. Footage of their actions will be recorded at the NCA in Lahore on July 7 for bowlers from Lahore and Sialkot, under the supervision of Shahid Aslam, at the National Stadium in Karachi on July 9 for bowlers from Karachi, Hyderabad and Quetta under Anwer Khan, at Khan Research Laboratories Ground in Rawalpindi with Aquib Javed on July 9for bowlers from Islamabad, Rawalpindi and Abbottabad and at Iqbal Stadium in Faisalabad on the same day for bowlers from Multan and Faisalabad with Nazir Junior.
Pakistan has been plagued with suspect bowling actions at domestic and international level. Shoaib Akhtar, Shoaib Malik, Mohammad Hafeez have all been reported at various stages internationally and Shabbir Ahmed is currently serving a one-year suspension from international cricket after being called for the third time in his career last November.
In light of this, the committee was set up as part of the PCB’s policy on suspect action and there was concern within the board at the high number of bowlers it found with faulty actions.
ICC confirms slow bowler research for ICC Champions Trophy 2004
July 29th, 2004 | Biomechanics Consultancy, Cricket, Quintic Video Software
The International Cricket Council has confirmed details of the slow bowler research programme that will take place during the ICC Champions Trophy in September.
The second npower Test at Edgbaston marks the start of the detailed programme of slow bowler filming, which will continue throughout the ICC Champions Trophy, covering the slow bowlers of all participating teams.
The project is being undertaken by the ICC to gather detailed scientific data to help address the issue of suspect bowling actions among slow bowlers.
ICC General Manager – Cricket David Richardson, explained how the filming programme will be carried out: “Starting with Edgbaston, we are using high-speed cameras positioned behind the bowler’s arm and square of the wicket to film slow bowlers actions’ at 250 frames a second, which is five times faster than standard TV cameras.
“The footage from both cameras is then combined and converted by a software programme to create a three-dimensional image of the action, together with the ability to analyse it in every detail. This will provide us with a new generation of information that can be used in considering levels of tolerance for the accepted amount of extension at the elbow, either in terms of straightening or hyper-extension of the arm,” said Mr Richardson.
The ICC has commissioned Dr Paul Hurrion, a leading human movement specialist, to carry out the filming programme and provide interpretation of the data.
There has been less research carried out into slow bowling than faster bowlers, so this project will provide a clear scientific explanation of what actually happens during the delivery action of the world’s leading slow bowlers. Although a laboratory is likely to produce slightly more accurate data because of the controlled conditions, a competitive match situation guarantees the correct levels of player effort and technical application in the most realistic conditions.” Paul Hurrion
“Once Dr Hurrion’s data has been processed and analysed following the completion of the ICC Champions Trophy, it will be used by the ICC and its specialist advisors to consider if the current levels of tolerance for slow bowlers need to be reviewed based on this new information,” confirmed David Richardson.
The 15 matches of the ICC Champions Trophy in September provide a rare opportunity to film the actions of all slow bowlers in competing teams at the same time under similar match conditions. The project will be the most extensive ever carried out into the actions of international slow bowlers.
None of the data collected by Dr Hurrion will be used to assess the actions of any slow bowler that might be reported for a suspect action during the tournament. Any such reports will be dealt with under the standard ICC process, based on match footage supplied by the host TV broadcaster.
Englands’ Darren Gough bowls to Nasser Hussain in the nets…”
July 22nd, 2004 | Cricket, Quintic Video Software“Englands’ Darren Gough bowls to Nasser Hussain in the nets at the Asgiriya stadium in Kandy yesterday.”
ECB’s Head Sports Physiologist and Biomechanicst, Nigel Stockill films Nasser Hussain during net practice prior to viewing on the Quintic Software.
“The majority of net sessions are filmed, giving the players the opportunity to view their technique frame by frame. Players have built up a library of good technique on their laptops, which is analysed via the Quintic software. Quintic is a biomechanical analysis software package that enables stride length, release hieght, speed to be calculated…”
Nigel Stockill ECB
Head Sports Physiologist and Biomechanicst.
Sports Injury Bulletin : Prevention, Treatment & Rehabilitation
May 22nd, 2004 | Cricket, Quintic Video SoftwareCase study 2: A fast bowler with a lower-back injury
Since the mid-1980′s, there has been much research aimed at identifying the causes of lower-back injuries in bowlers. Typically, there are three bowling actions for fast bowlers: the front-on technique with hips and shoulders remaining parallel to the crease for much of the action; the side-on technique whereby the action starts with the hips and shoulders pointing down the pitch; and the mixed action whereby the bowler usually counter-rotates the shoulders towards a side-on position early in the action. This mixed action can place additional rotational stress on the lower back, and as such has been identified by a number of scientific studies as the action most likely to result in injury (for a review of these studies, see Bartlett et al, 1996, and Finch et al, 1999). Typical injuries include spondylolysis (a stress fracture of the lumbar vertebrae), disc degeneration, and muscle and other soft tissue damage. Fast bowlers are also at risk because of the repetition of their actions, repeatedly placing high stresses on the joints of their lower limbs and lower back.
Despite this recently acquired knowledge, many bowlers participating in the game at all levels are still regularly becoming injured. Typically, the injured bowler will see a physiotherapist who will treat the injury until the player is fit again. However, this is often no more than a temporary solution and coaches need to discover more long-term answers to ensure that their players are able to perform at their best for as long as possible. Modification of a potentially injurious bowling action is one longer-term the solution that has already had some success in preventing the recurrence of injury, especially in Australia (eg: the left-arm pace bowler Bruce Reid in the late 1980′s). This case study similarly attempted to modify the action of a young injured bowler, using an innovative new video system.
Seeing is Feeling
The bowler was recommended to the Sports Science Consultancy Unit at Chelsea School, University of Brighton, by his physiotherapist. He was treated for lower-back pain that was suspected a to be spondylolysis. As he was still relatively young, staff the Consultancy Unit decided to attempt to modify his action with the help of Sussex County Cricket Club’s coach, Peter Moores, and the Quintic Video Analysis System. This system involves a digital video camera linked to a laptop computer that allows almost instantaneous playback on the laptop screen. Images can be viewed in real time, slow motion or frame-by- frame, and, as shown in Figure 1, sequences filmed on two separate occasions can be viewed side-by-side on the same screen.
The Quintic System also allows joint angles to be measured and compared if required. Thus, by viewing each delivery immediately after it was performed, the bowler was able to experience feelings associated with his “injurious” technique and, later, those associated with the ‘less injurious” technique as it was modified. In addition, both coach and bowler were able to monitor and measure the changes that occurred in the action throughout the coaching period.
What needed changing?
Aspects of the bowler’s action that were, identified by the coach as in need of modification were: limited drive of the right leg; poor foot placement, excessive flexion of the trunk towards the left (off-side); and extensive rotation of the trunk and poor use of arms in the follow-through. The excessive lateral flexion and rotation of the trunk as shown in the right side off images 1 and 2 respectively, were thought to be most related to the lower-back injury suffered by the bowler. The coach also encouraged the bowler to “stand tall’ and bowl through the crease in a straight line rather than rotating around the front left after release, as shown in the right side of Figure 2.
Coaching sessions took place at least once a month for a period of four months. The Quintic System was used on these occasions and on a number of follow-up sessions to allow the bowler to monitor the changes that had occurred in his action. It is important to mention that the changes were and introduced gradually and systematically. Interestingly, the bowler was not adept at identifying the associated with either “good” or “bad’ techniques early on in the coaching programme. He gradually became more aware of alterations in his action, and near the end of the programme became very good at noticing slight alterations in technique.
Comparison of the left image with the right image of Figures 1 and 2 show that the bowler’s technique was modified with a great deal of success. The left side of Figure 1 shows that bowler’s spine was more upright at the point of ball release, which should reduce stress in the left lower back where the pain was felt. The bowler’s body no longer rotated excessively around the planted front leg, and the right-leg drive was more powerful and directed down the pitch (see Figure 2).
What happened next?
During the four-month coaching programme the bowler did not bowl at full speed in order to help him concentrate on the changes, nor did he bowl in any matches. He also attended a Polartis course aimed at improving core stability. This was also deemed important since he tended to allow his body to fall to the left during delivery, which arguably was contributing to the cause of the injury. With better core stability he was better able to support his action and remain more upright. A follow-up analysis session was carried out after a period of three months, during which no coaching or analysis sessions were offered, and the bowler was therefore left alone to continue practising. Encouragingly, the Quintic System was able to show that he had retained the new modified action and had not reverted to the old one. More encouragingly, the bowler no longer complained of low-back pain. Feedback from the bowler revealed that expert coaching using the Quintic System had been the key to enable him to modify his action.
This case study has been a great success and goes some way to demonstrating how applied sports science can be used in cricket and the modification of bowling techniques to reduce the risk of injury. Similar studies are now being carried out using the Quintic System on batting technique, tennis serving, and swimming strokes.
If you want further information about this study, contact Rob Harley (Senior Lecturer in Physiology and Head of Sports Science Consultancy at the University of Brighton) on 01273 643758;
e-mail: r.a.harley@bton.ac.uk.
Adrian Burden
References
Bartiett, R.M., Stockhill, N.P., Eillott, B.C., and Burnett, A.F. (1996). ” The biomechanics of fast bowling in men’s cricket: a review.” Journal of Sport Science, 14, pp 403-424
Finch, C.F., Elliott, B.C., McGrath, A.C. (1999). “Measures to prevent cricket injuries: an overview.” Sports Medicine 28, pp 263-272
