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Also, I think it’s possible that top cricket players partly infer the ball’s trajectory before the ball leaves the bowler’s hand. With such a machine, the cues

Also, I think it’s possible that top cricket players partly infer the ball’s trajectory before the ball leaves the bowler’s hand. With such a machine, the cues used to do that aren’t available. https://thesportjournal.org/article/the-kinematics-of-the-return-of-serve-in-tennis-the-role-of-anticipatory-information/ https://thesportjournal.org/article/the-kinematics-of-the-re...: “In 2007, Renshaw et al. (18) showed differences in the initiation times of back swing in cricket, back swing and downswing duration while facing the bowler and the ball machine.”

animal531 2y ago
When we were kids we played a game called King where you try to hit your friends with a tennis ball. I was terrible at throwing with my skinny arms but very good at dodging, mostly by having learned to watch first the throwing arm trajectory which gives you a plane in 3d space of where the ball can possible go. Secondly you watch where in the arc the ball leaves the hand which turns that plane into hopefully a line or a triangle which you then try to avoid. Bowling adds more variables on top such as holding the ball in a certain way to make it curve, although with cricket vs baseball it's more about how you're going to make the ball bounce instead of trying to curve it in the air (if we're talking about spinners that is).