Now, AI to predict Cricket matches, assess the luck of the players

Artificial intelligence and data science are already creating a huge impact on various industries. Now these technologies are extensively being used to analyse the game of cricket as well. Sport media firm ESPNcricinfo, in partnership with the Indian Insitute of Technology Madras, unveiled a tech platform called ‘Superstats’, which helps analyse the sport.

The platform is a combination of stats metrics – luck index, forecaster and smart stats — that use data science for the first time to give a context to every event in a game.

IIT-Madras Researchers and Gyan Data Pvt Ltd, a company incubated at the institute, worked with cricket experts from ESPNcricinfo to create Superstats with the help of ESPNcricinfo’s rich ball-by-ball database.