A game-changing data solution for the BLACK CAPS and WHITE FERNS.
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In a highly competitive international environment, it's crucial that New Zealand Cricket harnesses modern data and analytics.
That's why New Zealand Cricket (NZC) have worked with Qrious to implement an innovative data and analytics solution to improve player performance and help the BLACK CAPS and WHITE FERNS get an edge over the competition.
As the governing body for professional cricket, NZC has plenty of data. But, like many other organisations, they weren’t able to easily extract actionable insights which they could feed back to coaches and players in a timely manner.
With national pride at stake, NZC needed a new way of handling, automating and analysing performance data, and challenged Qrious to find a solution.
By implementing an innovative data and analytics solution and taking advantage of the latest in cloud and data automation technologies, Qrious has enabled NZC to focus more time on analysis, and to put the insights they uncovered to good use improving game strategy and player performance.
The Challenge
NZC has been using data to analyse player performance for many years. But it was a time-consuming and manual process. More time was spent collating and formatting the data than analysing it and putting it to use. The data itself took the form of tagged videos. But, the way in which the videos were coded meant there wasn’t always an effective way to analyse that data, understand ball-by-ball play and feed insights back into training and performance.
There was also the issue of the data’s formatting. As NZC were able to use multiple information and coding sources it also led to different formats and interpretations of data. This required a lot of manual manipulation to get it to a point where it would make sense.
With visuals and coding for every game of cricket spanning many years, there was a lot of data to work through. And continuing to do the analysis manually meant they couldn’t get to the in-depth insights that would provide the most value.
The ease of access to standardised data from which we can generate outputs to feed back into training and performance is at a new level.
Paul Warren
Performance Analysis Manager, NZC
Through the automation, standardisation and integration of data, analysts are able to spend more time analysing – and that’s what adds value. The organisation now sees more value from their analysts and are choosing to increase investment in this area.
Paul Warren
Performance Analysis Manager, NZC
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