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RCB To Use Artificial Intelligence To Find Talent For WPL: Mike Hesson
The Royal Challengers Bangalore women's team is set to go big on Artificial Intelligence (AI) to unearth talent from far corners of the country, their director of cricket Mike Hesson said on Thursday. While the team management will not discard the time-tested method of sending scouts to unearth promising talent, RCB will also deploy AI technology to supplement their efforts. "We think our scouting needs to go a little bit deeper than sending regular scouts to tournaments. There's a lot of untapped talent and potential throughout the whole country," Hesson said at a press conference ahead of the Women's Premier League (WPL).
"So, we have an artificial intelligence system, where we look at some key metrics. From a bowling perspective, it will be around pace. From a batting perspective, it will be around different positions that they get into. Once we identify talent there, we can bring them into camps or we can go and watch them at specific tournaments," he added.
Hesson said the RCB are looking to spot talent at a very young age in order to train and prepare them adequately.
"We're trying to look far beyond just the mainstream tournaments or first-class cricket or state cricket. We're trying to look at underage talent, talent from the extremities of the country, people that potentially aren't in teams already," he said.
"The players we're looking at might be a year away from actually being a part of the RCB. But we can identify them, we can watch them over a period of time and just see how they develop. That's certainly how we also operate in both the men's and women's programme," Hesson said.
RCB might have put up an enviable roster with Ellyse Perry, Megan Schutt, Heather Knight and Dane van Niekerk in its ranks but head coach Ben Sawyer is clear that the big names would be rotated during the WPL, starting Saturday.
Along with these four celebrated names, RCB have also roped in legendary New Zealander Sophie Devine and WBBL (Big Bash League) star Erin Burns, and Sawyer accepted that he is spoilt for choice.
Asked about his picks as top-four overseas players, Sawyer, the current New Zealand women's team coach, didn't give a straight answer.
"All six will play a role. We play four games in the first six days. We will have different match-ups against the teams and I am fortunate to have them," Sawyer said.
"Don't expect us to operate with the same four in the whole tournament. We have got some multi-skilled players. Pretty sure you will see all six in the tournament," said Sawyer.
Sawyer has worked as a coach in The Hundred and WBBL and is confident WPL will take women's cricket to a new level.
"That's a scary thought for an international player of what they are going to come up against in future. I've seen the impact that WBBL and The Hundred have had. It's (WPL) just going to take it (women's cricket) to another level." The Indian women's team is yet to win a global trophy at the senior level and are sometimes labelled "chokers". Asked if the WPL will help them get rid of the mental block in crunch games, Sawyer was empathetic.
"Once they win one or two games, there is going to be no stopping the Indian team." The 45-year-old has worked in women's franchise leagues in England (Birmingham Phoenix - The Hundred) and Australia (Sydney Sixers - WBBL), and based on those experience, he said its only in the initial years of league tournaments that big names matter before every member in the squad understands her role and becomes a vital cog.
"Maybe at the start, you are relying on the big names but in seven-eight years' time, every single player in the team had an important role to play and was no longer seen as just making up the numbers," he said, recalling the early days in WBBL.
"The experience some of the younger players will get at the international level will take them to another level. They will be exposed to playing international-style cricket week in and week out during the competition," he added.
India's tennis great Sania Mirza is a perfect role model and her inclusion as RCB's mentor for the upcoming WPL will inspire the team, feels the team's director of cricket Mike Hesson.
The 36-year-old six-time Grand Slam winner recently retired from tennis.
"No matter what sport you are from, but coming up as an elite and challenging the norms in terms of an athlete, wanting to embrace pressure and how to deal with it, and not be afraid of it, for women's sport, Sania is a huge icon," Hesson said.
Hesson said RCB have plenty of experts to talk about the technical nitty-gritty of the game and the former world No. 1 in doubles would give the players an edge by talking about the mental challenges she faced in her professional career.
"The more you talk about pressure and emotions of the game, and the challenges rather than talking technique for which we have got plenty of experts, I think it's exciting," he added.
The WPL will commence on March 4 with Gujarat Giants taking on Mumbai Indians.
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West Indies Hit Back After First Innings Collapse Against South Africa
The West Indies collapsed, then hit back dramatically before the close on the second day of the first Test against South Africa at SuperSport Park in Centurion on Wednesday. Fast bowler Anrich Nortje took four wickets inside four overs as the West Indies collapsed to 212 all out, giving South Africa a first innings lead of 130. But the West Indies bowlers grabbed four South African wickets before the close, leaving the hosts reeling at 49 for four, an overall lead of 179. West Indies were looking reasonably solid at 169 for three 40 minutes after tea with top-scorer Raymon Reifer and Roston Chase building a patient partnership. But both batsmen were out off consecutive balls. Reifer fell for 63 when he was caught behind off the last ball of a Marco Jansen over. Chase edged the first ball of Kagiso Rabada's next over to first slip and was out for 22.
Then Nortje took over. He had earlier ended a stubborn partnership between Reifer and Jermaine Blackwood and he steamed in to take four more wickets, finishing with five for 36. It was his fourth five-wicket haul.
West Indies lost their last seven wickets for 43 runs.
First innings century-maker Aiden Markram got South Africa's second innings off to a fast start as 31 runs were scored in the first four overs.
But Dean Elgar was caught at third man off Alzarri Joseph in a repeat of his first innings dismissal.
New cap Tony de Zorzi was caught behind first ball off Kemar Roach and new captain Temba Bavuma also fell first ball, to Joseph. It completed a 'pair' for Bavuma, who only faced three balls in two innings.
Jason Holder was brought on to bowl the last over of the day and only needed one ball to trap Keegan Petersen leg before wicket with a delivery which kept low.
Markram finished unbeaten on 35.
Eleven wickets fell between tea and the close.
Reifer and Blackwood defied South Africa's four-pronged fast bowling attack for most of an attritional afternoon, during which only 65 runs were scored in 29 overs between lunch and tea for the loss of Blackwood's wicket.
Blackwood made 37 in a third wicket partnership of 64 with Reifer before he drove at a full ball from Nortje and was caught behind by wicketkeeper Heinrich Klaasen off an inside edge.
The left-handed Reifer showed determination and courage in making 63, the highest score of his six-Test career. He batted for almost four hours and faced 143 balls.
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West Indies Fight Back After Aiden Markram Century For South Africa
Aiden Markram hit a century on his return to Test cricket but the West Indies mounted a strong fightback on the first day of the first Test against South Africa at SuperSport Park on Tuesday. Markram made 115 in a South Africa total of 314 for eight. Fast bowler Alzarri Joseph spearheaded the West Indian bowling attack, taking three for 60. South Africa looked set to take full control when they reached 221 for one after new captain Temba Bavuma won the toss and decided to bat.
But they lost seven more wickets before the close while adding another 93 runs, with the West Indian bowlers finding swing, lateral movement and more consistency with the old ball.
An opening partnership of 141 between Markram and former captain Dean Elgar (71) was followed by a stand of 80 between Markram and new cap Tony de Zorzi. The left-handed De Zorzi was looking comfortable before he was run out for 28.
De Zorzi punched a ball from Joseph through the covers and completed a confortable two runs.
Tagenarine Chanderpaul made a good sliding stop and De Zorzi was sent back after setting off for an unlikely third.
Chanderpaul's throw was off target but wicketkeeper Joshua Da Silva cleverly flicked the ball into the stumps.
Bavuma, on his first appearance as South Africa's first Black African captain, was leg before wicket for nought to a full ball from Joseph two balls later and Joseph struck again when he yorked Markram.
Markram was dropped last year after a poor run of form in which he went 15 innings without a half-century, with only two scores above 30. He had not made a hundred since scoring 108 against Pakistan in Rawalpindi in February 2021.
After a watchful start, he was soon into his stride, hitting 18 fours in a 174-ball innings, studded by his trademark cover drives and powerful pull shots.
Elgar, who was stripped of the captaincy after South Africa were heavily beaten on tours of England and Australia, made 71 off 118 balls.
Two of Elgar's 11 fours were ramp shots over the slips but in trying to hit a third boundary in that fashion he fell to a leaping catch by Jermaine Blackwood at third man off Joseph.
Blackwood earlier put down a sharp chance at third slip off Kyle Mayers when he was on 10.
The South African team showed five changes from the side that played in the third Test of a losing series in Australia in January with De Zorzi and fast bowler Gerald Coetzee both handed their first caps.
The West Indies made one change from the side that beat Zimbabwe by an innings and four runs in Bulawayo earlier this month.
Left-arm spinner Gudakesh Motie, who took 13 wickets in the win in Bulawayo, had a back injury and was replaced by fast bowler Kemar Roach.
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