Very interesting analysis, but I wonder how useful these pre-release cues are in reality.
They would be very easy for the bowler to fake — just bowl the occasional away swinger from wide on the crease (aim at leg stump, swing to hit off), and the batter’s pre-meditation fails.
fwiw — my _feeling_ is that batters gain more information from the very moment of release, from the seam orientation and hand position behind/beside the ball, characteristics that can’t be faked.
I think you're right, the key limitation of the analysis is that release points form only a partial description of pre-release cues. However the point of release is all that can be observed in the Hawkeye data, so it's just one of those that needs to be acknowledged as a limitation. For the same reason, I think the analysis of length is the portion that deserves to be taken most seriously, because it is known that the way to shorten length is by delaying release.
Very interesting analysis, but I wonder how useful these pre-release cues are in reality.
They would be very easy for the bowler to fake — just bowl the occasional away swinger from wide on the crease (aim at leg stump, swing to hit off), and the batter’s pre-meditation fails.
fwiw — my _feeling_ is that batters gain more information from the very moment of release, from the seam orientation and hand position behind/beside the ball, characteristics that can’t be faked.
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I think you're right, the key limitation of the analysis is that release points form only a partial description of pre-release cues. However the point of release is all that can be observed in the Hawkeye data, so it's just one of those that needs to be acknowledged as a limitation. For the same reason, I think the analysis of length is the portion that deserves to be taken most seriously, because it is known that the way to shorten length is by delaying release.