Hey Cricket Enthusiasts,
As I promised, this is the 2nd article for today. I am covering up for not being able to publish yesterday. I am determined to publish an article for every single day.
What is Hawk-Eye?
I think Wikipedia does a better job explaining what Hawk-Eye is:
Hawk-Eye is a computer system used in numerous sports such as cricket, tennis, Gaelic football, badminton, hurling, rugby union, association football and volleyball, to visually track the trajectory of the ball and display a profile of its statistically most likely path as a moving image.Read the full Wikipedia article here
How does Hawk-Eye predict the trajectory of a ball?
It uses video inputs from 6 different cameras which are placed around the ground and the speed of the ball as inputs. It feeds those inputs into high range algorithms where the magic happens.
How does Hawk-Eye involve in Cricket?
- Making LBW decisions
- Drawing out wagon wheels
- Creating pitch maps
- To see how much the ball spun (or is going to spin)
- Rail Cam
- Beehives
Basically, most of the things you see on the television screen when watching a cricket match are done by this technology.
Hawk-Eye is the mother of DRS?
Hawk-Eye has the ability to predict the trajectory of a ball. This is what DRS is using.
So, all coders had to do was to write a program using those data.
Wagon Wheels
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| Virat Kohli's Wagon Wheel in a test match |
Image via Google
Pitch Maps
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| A Pitch Map |
Image via Google
Spin Deviations
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| Spin Deviations |
Rail Cam
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| Rail Cam |
Image via Tech Charisma
Beehives
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| Beehives |
Image via Tech Charisma
I don't think I have anything to explain here. You must have seen all these things if you have watched at least one cricket match on television.
As always thank you for taking to read this article. I hope you guys learned something valuable. See you tomorrow ❤️🤟
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