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12 articles in Cricket

Red and white cricket balls compared through seam, surface finish, wear, match format and visibility rather than colour alone

CricketExplainer

Why Can a Red Cricket Ball Behave Differently From a White One?

Learn why red and white cricket balls can swing, seam, wear and feel different—and why colour itself is only part of the story.

27 Sept 202615 min read

New, used and old red cricket balls showing changing shine, roughness and seam condition across an innings

CricketExplainer

Why Does a New Cricket Ball Behave So Differently From an Old One?

Learn why a new cricket ball swings, seams and bounces differently from an old one, and how wear, shine, roughness and the seam change bowling strategy.

25 Sept 202614 min read

Cricket pitch connected to batting, pace bowling, spin bowling, team selection, toss and field-setting decisions

CricketExplainer

Why Does the Cricket Pitch Shape the Entire Strategy of a Match?

Learn how grass, moisture, hardness, wear and bounce influence batting, fast bowling, spin, team selection, the toss and match strategy in cricket.

22 Sept 202615 min read

Modern cricket stadium with multiple cameras, stump microphones, Spidercam and broadcast signals feeding a production control room and viewer screens

CricketExplainer

What Technologies Are Working Behind a Modern Cricket Broadcast?

Discover how dozens of cameras, slow-motion replay, stump microphones, Hawk-Eye, live data, graphics, drones, Spidercam and streaming systems work together during a modern cricket broadcast.

20 Sept 202616 min read

Cricket captain and coach combining traditional observation with modern pitch maps, video and matchup analytics to plan strategy

CricketExplainer

How Has Data Analytics Changed Cricket Strategy?

Learn how ball-by-ball data, matchup analysis, predictive models and video have changed cricket selection, batting orders, bowling plans, field settings and recruitment.

18 Sept 202614 min read

AI analysing a cricket batter and bowler while displaying several possible next deliveries and shot outcomes with different probabilities

CricketExplainer

Can AI Predict a Batter’s or Bowler’s Next Move?

Learn how cricket AI uses ball-by-ball data, player matchups, recent sequences and match context to estimate what may happen next—and why it can never know for certain.

15 Sept 202613 min read

Cricket analyst and coach studying opponent video, pitch maps, scoring zones and matchup data before a match

CricketExplainer

How Do Cricket Teams Use Data and Video to Study Opponents?

Learn how cricket teams combine ball-by-ball data, video, matchup analysis, pitch maps and scenario planning to study opponents and build match strategies.

12 Sept 202614 min read

Cricket scoring event travelling from a stadium through a live data platform to apps, websites and devices around the world

CricketExplainer

How Does a Cricket Score Update Almost Instantly Around the World?

Learn how a cricket score travels from the ground to data providers, servers, APIs, apps and websites around the world within seconds.

9 Sept 202615 min read

Cricket DRS review combining video replay, edge detection and ball tracking after an LBW appeal

CricketExplainer

How Does DRS Work in Cricket?

Learn how cricket's DRS works, including player reviews, UltraEdge, ball tracking, LBW decisions, Umpire's Call and when teams lose a review.

6 Sept 202615 min read

Cricket ball passing the bat while a synchronized audio waveform shows a spike used for UltraEdge edge detection

CricketExplainer

How Does UltraEdge Know Whether the Cricket Ball Touched the Bat?

Learn how UltraEdge combines sensitive audio with synchronized slow-motion video to help umpires decide whether a cricket ball touched the bat or glove.

6 Sept 202614 min read

Multiple cricket cameras reconstructing a ball's measured path before software projects its trajectory from pad impact toward the stumps

CricketExplainer

How Does Cricket Ball-Tracking Predict Where the Ball Would Have Gone?

Learn how Hawk-Eye-style cricket ball tracking uses multiple cameras, 3D reconstruction and trajectory modelling to predict whether an LBW delivery would have hit the stumps.

3 Sept 202614 min read

Cricket ball swinging through the air with angled seam and airflow shown around it

CricketExplainer

Why Does a Cricket Ball Swing?

Learn why a cricket ball swings in the air, how the seam and surface affect airflow, and what causes conventional, reverse and late swing.

16 Aug 202615 min read