The power game of Sai Sudharsan: unpacking the scientific approach of Southpaw to the T20 stick | Cricket news

New Delhi: At the start of the season, the opener of Gujarat Titans (GT), Careudharsan, told Timesofindia.com on how he had worked a lot on the technical aspects of his game to meet the requests of the T20 cricket without losing his natural style of play. The Southpaw had spoken of his state of mind but had kept his cards near his chest of the specific work he had done.Last year, when Sai Sudharsan was in Australia with India a team, he contacted the power coach Shanon Young to work on his T20 striker. Young, a coach specializing in power who worked with Glenn Maxwell, Marnus Labuschagne, Babar Azam and Jake Fraser-McGurk, invited the SouthPaw to his cricket performance laboratory in Melbourne.“His bat begins on the ground and his hands are quite low. He generates a lot of power of his backlift. His backlift passes in front of his shoulders, similar to Brian Lara. So, in the backswing, he generates a lot of momentum, which gives him more power just because of these mechanisms,” Timesosofiddia.com in Melbourne.

A few days ago at the Arun Jaitley stadium, Sai Sudharsan reached a three -digit score with a six that skyrocketed directly on the head of the bowling player Kuldeep Yadav. He finished the pursuit with a six. He currently runs the IPL 2025 racing graphics with 617 points. It is not only the number of races he has marked; This is the way he marked them. Its strike rate is 156.99. This season, he has reached the most limits (68) and six (20) in his IPL career.Although he has played an aggressive cricket brand, Sai Sudharsan hardly loses. Against the capitals of Delhi, he showed all his range of shots. He pulled, cut, driven, swept away and also played a few strokes of a dinky ramp on both sides of the counter.“Many people now, whether Fraser-McGurk or Jos Buttler, who started holding the bat higher. It has become a fairly modern trend, especially in the T20 and the draft, you can really start with the bat. Play more traditional crickets through this power game.This is why his game is perfectly suited to the three formats, “he says.Holding the shapeThe young person attributes the base and the height of the base and the height of Sudharsan so as not to lose shape while hitting Big Sixes in the T20.“He has a really stable base, and I was surprised when he entered; he is quite tall. I don’t know his real height, maybe six feet two inches [just over six feet]. The interesting thing with this is that he beats. When it generates power through its hands via backlift, its base is stable and it has nothing else to generate this power. He can therefore do it through a really stable base, then he uses the ground very well, resulting in a truly common bat swowry, “explains Young.

Young reveals that Sai has the highest enclosed of any professional player they had in the laboratory. “This means that the distance between its tense arms is much higher than its size. It also helps the lever and energy effect that swings the bat,” he said.The workSai Sudharsan holds out to Young with the help of two of his former Surrey teammates, Kobe Herft and Laurie Evans. Young and his team have prepared a presentation supported by the data and the biomechanics. The opener spent three hours in the laboratory with his older brother Sai Ram and Mother Usha Bhardwaj looking at the touch.“We have not done much technically with him. We talked about how he uses the ground. We have a balance sheet here that, as part of the bat process, allows us to understand how much strength goes through the ground. So, when you understand the science of power, a large part of the magnitude that we generate with the body. Most of the biomechanical analysis and science suggests that the greatest force we can generate is to use this energy stored through the ground.Who is this IPL player?“So, the analogy I use is: ‘Imagine a spring. If you stand in the spring, then remove your spring foot, what happens in spring? It will rebound.’ This is because spring stored energy. So the power strike is very similar; The energy that we store in our body before arriving at the point of contact is the energy which is transferred through the ball to the point of contact, “explains Young.

The position of the strong and balanced body of body of a drummer, offering a base for power production and maintaining control.

What is the stable base?

Young says why Sai looks so elegant even by hitting big blows because, unlike current T20 bashers like Fraser-McGurk, Travis Head or Abhishek Sharma, he does not play high-risk game.“Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Fraser -McGurk – They play a high -risk cricket. The yields are high, but the risk is also high. Now Shubman Gill and Sai Sudharsan de GT minimize the risk by playing traditional crickets but with a high impact, “he said.What is BPI?During Sai’s visit to the laboratory, Chris Hall, who worked in the laboratory as a more bat adjustment, identified some problems with the five bats that Sai was carrying with him.

Shanon Young with Shai Sudarshan and Chris Hall, who works in the laboratory as a Fitter Bat. (Special arrangement)

“I think he had five bats, all beautiful bats. All were used at various stages. The fact is that when the pros arrive, obviously, they have new bats, they have their favorites, and what we do is that we modify their bats so that they all swing the same.“Thus, through these five bats, there were slight variations in weight and shape. This is also what we do at the Laborat Performance; we actually modify bats to the same BPI,” he said.“BPI is a point of balance index. It is our technology that we use to determine how a bat balances and feels, essentially corresponding to a player’s bat to his swing technique and his physical strength,” explains Young.

An owner technology developed by the Shanon Young Cricket performance laboratory to objectively measure how a bat is swinging, and to correspond to the technique and the strength of a player.

What is BPI (Balance Point Index)?

“Traditionally, when you have a bat, say that everything is in weight, there will be a certain weight, and he will say:” I like it “and you make the measurements. Most bats that we do are always old school, always in pounds or imperial. But all that we had the possibility of doing as cricket players and coaches is to choose bats on the weight and what they look like, you know, you will see that people come for ping and all these kinds of things. Now what we have done is that we have found a BPI metric that allows us to place an objective measure on the feeling of a cricket bat.

Sai Sudharsan and its battle-changed bats in Melbourne Cricket Lab. (Special arrangement)

“What happened was when Sai entered and he struck with all his bats, and we measured his output speed, his launch angle, the quantity of soil strength, his bat speed, the angles of Backlift. We captured lots of data, and we crossed the five bats, then we showed him the data from the one who really achieved the best.

The distance from the fingertips with a hand at the fingertips of the other when the arms are tied horizontally. In cricket, a larger scale can help the lever and the swing of bat.

What is Wingspan?

“Then we took the other four bats and did them exactly the same as the one that did the best. I took its bats, changed them and sent them back to his hotel the next day. I think he was leaving the next day, so we returned his bats faster than normal,” he said.Although it is seated at the top of the IPL 2025 racing graphics, Sudharsan does not only present a form, it makes a convincing case for the future of the Indian stick: the one that mixes the preparation based on the data with traditional grace.

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