Cricflex Tracks Bowlers Movements

CricFlex, created by a group of Pakistani enginners, is a patented wearable technology for cricketer looking to improve their game.

The wearable is an arm sleeve with embedded sensors which automatically detects an illegal bowling action displaying results on a smartphone.

The sleeve uses various metrics such as arm force, action time and spin rate to detect an illegal move.

It began as a project for several students at an engineering university in Islamabad, Pakistan. Abdullah Ahmed, Muhammad Jazib Khan and Muhammad Asawal came up with the idea, according to CricInfo, after a crackdown by the International Cricket Council resulted in the banning of popular Pakistani cricketer Saeed Ajmal. 

CricFlex_Product Video from Abdullah Ahmed on Vimeo.

Ahmed told ESPN CricInfo: “The main purpose for us creating (it) was to make it accessible at the grassroot level to the clubs and academics,” Ahmed said in the video. “The ultimate goal is to actually implement it within the matches.”