The use of a smartphone based mobile application for analysing the batting backlift technique in cricket

Abstract

The 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 for connectivity from parent software on computers. The mobile application provides real-time data that can be stored on the user’s phone and device for subsequent usage and analysis.