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Now, a software for training, injury management
Nadim Siraj
Posted online: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 0000 hrs Print Email
Former coach John Wright’s book prompts trainer Gregory King to involve NCA wiz kid in novel project

Kolkata, September 11: While John Wright’s book Indian Summers in selling like hot cakes for sensational revelations, it has also set the ball rolling for what could turn out to be a revolution in the field of fitness and injury assessment in cricket.

Having stumbled upon page 69 of the book, in which the former India coach heaps praise on Bangalore-based video analyst A Prasanna Raman, Team India trainer Gregory Allen King recently hunted down the NCA tech wizard and assigned him to create a novel computerised fitness assessment software before the World Cup next year.

Prasanna, who is the technical director of the NCA and was the analyst of the India U-19 team in the World Cup last year, is quietly going about programming this new tool that will assist King and physio John Gloster switch from age-old manual assessment of injury-related and fitness matters to a slick digital “marking” system.

Known as the Training & Injury Management software, the tool— once loaded onto King’s laptop — will hugely ease the trainer’s task in assessing Rahul Dravid & Co on the fitness front. Already, team analyst S Ramki is in charge of the cricketing aspects with match-analysis software and the latest tools.

Speaking to The Indian Express about the project, Prasanna said: “King is giving me specifications from time to time, ranging from making the computer do the assessment work itself, to building a database of injury-related cases of the Indian players. It will be ready before the World Cup. Fitness assessment and injury-handling won’t be manual at all once that software comes into use.”

Once installed, all that King will have to do is prepare training schedules for the players during the camp. After that, he will feed into the software the number of times each player goes through the drills assigned to them. “Say, Yuvraj goes through 60 push-ups and Sachin goes through 20 sprints. That data is fed into the software. At the end of the camp, all the players will be given ‘mark-sheets’ about how each player has ‘performed’,” Prasanna explained.

In fact, in what wasn’t possible all these years, players will be judged at the click of a button - called ‘fitness course’— and the software will assess the data fed into King’s laptop and produce mark-sheets for the players. Based on the output, Greg Chappell will get an idea as to which players have completed their quota of fitness drills throughout the camp and who haven’t.

There will be an even more interesting feature in the software — called ‘injury database’. Whenever cases of injuries to players will come up, King and Gloster will the details into the software, along with the prescribed cure and altered training methods.

nadim.siraj@expressindia.com

[fineleg]

Thanks for finding this article.

[LosingNow]

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