Quintic Analysis

The Quintic Cricket Player can be used in two ways:

1. to view videos of the different batting strokes with commentary and text

2. to analyse and compare the technique of one player with another.

In the analysis below we compare the technique of a young aspiring batsman with the videos included in Quintic Cricket. We hope this will encourage players and coaches to use personal video to improve batting techniques. They can compare technique with each other, with their previous efforts and with the strokes demonstrated in this manual.

No batsman hits the ball out of the middle of the bat every time against a ball bowled at speed which both swings in the air and moves off a pitch. However a player should aim to be as technically correct as possible to get the best contact of bat on ball. Practice at emulating and reproducing the same stroke shapes and techniques demonstrated in Quintic Cricket will help batsmen at all levels to do that.

The best players in the world never stop working at their game and Quintic Cricket provides good basic guidelines and a sound technical foundation to help everyone work toward improving their averages... and results can be startlingly quick!

The steps below show how videos are compared and analysed. Similar steps should be taken when using the Quintic Cricket to analyse videos of personal batting technique. To load a personal video file, use the open button located in the top right hand corner of the Quintic Cricket Player. Select a file which can then be compared and analysed with those downloaded.

Click on the Quintic Player icon on your desktop. The Quintic Cricket Player can be loaded several times allowing the user to compare and analyse several videos.

To follow the fault analysis example below, load the Quintic Cricket Player twice.

Once the Quintic Cricket Player has opened click on the Open Video File Button:   

Fault 1:
Follow the Step by Step details below to compare and analyse this forward defensive shot.

1: Open Video file Analysis_Shot1 in one of the Quintic Cricket Players.

2: Open Video file FrontView_Front_Foot_Defensive _Middle_Off in the 2nd Quintic Cricket Player Window:

3: Arrange the Quintic Cricket Player windows so that you can see both windows. As seen in the picture above (this is facilitated by the recommended screen resolution of 1024*768).

4: Scroll the video files to Ball Contact:

5: Once the Videos are both at the frame of ball contact the Scroll Bar on the Window can be used to advance the videos. Clicking the arrows at the ends moves the video one frame at a time. Clicking inside the scroll bar moves the video ten frames.

6: Advance forwards and backwards using the Scroll Bar, compare and Analyse! (For further functions on the Quintic Cricket Player please refer to the downloadable instruction sheet or by pressing the Help button in the top right hand corner).

Analysis of Fault 1:
All following analytical points are comparisons of the young player with the model Quintic cricket batsman.

• Frame 20: Initial line of backswing good: over off stump.
• Frame 52: Front foot is NOT to line of ball.
• Frame 56: Front foot landing too closed. Presents good straight bat at this point.
• Frame 57: Head, hands and contact with ball in a vertical line.
• Frame 58: Nicked ball to slip. Why? Arms and bat pulled slightly towards lower body which was NOT in line with the ball.

Source of Problem: Head and shoulder not leaning towards the ball prominently enough throughout the stroke. (From a side view it can be seen that the batsman had committed himself to going forward too early).

Fault 2:
The same batsman plays another forward defence. Follow the similar steps as described above to view and analyse this technique.

Analysis of Fault 2:

• Frame 6: Backswing could be more to off stump.
• Frame 13: On initial movement forward hands should be raised higher behind the player in preparation to hit the ball. This will create a smoother and higher backswing.
• Frame 19: Front foot stride too small and leg too straight.
• Frame 20: Contact on inside edge because the player has stepped too far across the crease. Upper body over compensating to get bat at ball, thus hitting slightly across the line.
• Frame 38: Loses balance here. Head not in alignment with front foot. Very straight front leg and head not in line with front foot causes loss of balance.

Source of Problem: Stepping too far across the crease with a straight leg getting the wrong side of the ball thus causing over balancing.

Fault 3:
A different batsman, left handed. Follow the same steps to analyse this technique.

Analysis of Fault 3:

• Frame 22: As a left handed batsman facing a right arm over the wicket bowler, this player needs to open his front shoulder slightly and in his mind think about playing the ball back between very straight mid-off and mid-on.
• Frame 25: Having picked up the line of the ball and opened front shoulder slightly, backswing should now be more towards off stump rather than middle.
• Frame 29: Very small front stride to the ball. Front foot too closed, thus taking his weight to the off side. Lower body position too sideways on thus making it difficult to drive the ball back to mid-on.
• Frame 32: At this point batsman has shaped up to play an off drive to a delivery which he should play to an on drive. If he were playing a correct on drive you would not be able to see his back leg behind the front pad on the side that it is exposed.
• Frame 34: He adjusts to get the bat at the ball, in doing so slices the ball as the bat comes across the line of the front pad.

Source of Problem: Batsman always wanting to play to the off side therefore always adopts a side-on position. If he was thinking about playing the ball straighter and more towards mid-on, he would get his body in a more open body position which is paramount for playing through mid-on.