Abstract
AbstractThe batting backlift technique has been shown to be a contributing factor to successful batsmanship. No study or platform has yet been conceptualised to specifically design a mobile application to analyse the batting technique of cricket batsmen, especially the batting backlift technique in cricket. The backlift in cricket software system was divided into three components: a frontal view interface, a lateral view interface, and a back-end system. Android, Open Computer Vision (CV) and JavaScript were used for this particular project as they are both well documented and supported by a software development platform called Qt 5.3. The use of the backlift in cricket mobile application can be used to evaluate the backlift type of a batsman by analysing and tracking the bat position of batsmen in cricket. The development of the backlift in cricket mobile application is the first complimentary mobile application that can record and analyse the backlift of a batsman through a smartphone without the need f...
Highlights
The mechanics of the backlift in cricket batting are poorly understood (Davis, 1983; Gibson & Adams, 1989)
An important component of the overall batting technique is the backlift, which is a technical component of batting that has defied the traditional attempt to constrain its motion to the linear plane (McLean & Reeder, 2000)
Upon completion of analysing the existing video footage with the mobile application using an Android phone, the results obtained had matched the results from the previous study in terms of the backlift type
Summary
The mechanics of the backlift in cricket batting are poorly understood (Davis, 1983; Gibson & Adams, 1989). Qualitative biomechanical analyses of movement in sports are key to its investigation (Noorbhai & Noakes, 2015). Such a mode of investigation can provide important insights in the biomechanics of technique in sports. This is especially important with those skills that have to satisfy performance outcomes by choosing from a kinematically redundant set of joint angle time-histories (Gelinas & Hoshizaki, 1988; Mullineaux, Bartlett, & Bennett, 2001). Cricket coaches have been teaching batting techniques to cricketers at various levels since the inception of the game (Noorbhai & Noakes, 2015). Fry was one of the first cricket coaches who institutionalised the straight batting backlift technique in 1912 (Fry, 1912)
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