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Rahul Dravid hopes cricket can use AI and information evaluation for harm prediction with out dropping the game’s human ingredient. He emphasizes sustaining the distinctiveness of gamers like Jasprit Bumrah.
Rahul Dravid (PC: Instagram) and Jasprit Bumrah (PTI Picture).
Former India head coach Rahul Dravid hopes that cricket can use applied sciences like Synthetic Intelligence and information evaluation to assist in aspects like harm prediction, with out changing the ‘human ingredient’ within the sport. He defined it by saying that he wouldn’t need any expertise that creates 5 ‘clones’ of pacer Jasprit Bumrah after his again harm as a result of that might take away the ‘enjoyable’ and ‘uniqueness’ of the game.
Bumrah picked up a stress harm in his again in January in the course of the 2024-25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy. He was suggested weeks of relaxation and has solely lately returned to the cricket area, although the harm did rule him out of the continued 2025 Champions Trophy in Pakistan and the UAE. Dravid was a giant driving drive of use of knowledge evaluation within the Indian males’s group within the 2023-24 season however nonetheless advises solely transferring ahead with steadiness.
“Can we clone 5 Bumrahs or one thing? I imply, I’m simply saying that, however that wouldn’t be enjoyable both, proper? I imply, what could be the enjoyable in that, proper? The place’s the distinctiveness then?” Dravid stated at a Mumbai occasion on Saturday, as quoted by information company PTI.
“I believe perhaps go away sport alone for a bit and we don’t need to get AI too concerned in sport. There’s received to be that human ingredient to it. There’s received to be a stage of uniqueness to sport. So, that might be my want actually that we’d by no means get to some extent the place we’re… It turns into simple,” he stated. “Bumrah is exclusive as a result of it’s so exhausting to do what Bumrah does.”
Explaining what he hoped for AI to do, Dravid stated: “On the sporting area, one of many issues that you’re actually hopeful about what AI may be capable to do, is (to foretell) accidents.”
“You simply have a look at the extent of accidents that we’ve got and nobody actually has an ideal reply as to why individuals choose up stress fractures and there’s no one measurement matches all; I’m simply utilizing a stress fracture for the again for instance for quick bowlers. You will have seen over the past years a lot of knowledge, a lot of sports activities drugs, science and stuff going into it however nobody with the ability to actually predict that, that’s unhappy, that’s (about) individuals’s careers, lives. So if AI can get us there and we can predict accidents,” he added.
“Nowadays, you’ve received to have the ability to use all of this information and expertise in your profit. (However) you’ll be able to’t turn into a slave of it, however actually there are enormous benefits to utilizing synthetic intelligence. You’ve received to seek out that steadiness between recognising that the info is essential,” the batting stalwart stated.
Dravid stated that in his stint, he used to gather tons of knowledge and knowledge and filter solely a fraction of essential bits to the gamers, that too after judging the suitable time and second for it.