New delhi: At the start of the season, Gujarat Titans (GT) Opener saisudharsan told timesofindia.com about how He had worked extended extended extended extended extended Natural Playing Style. The southpaw had spoken about his mindset but Had kept his cards close to his chest about the specific work he had done.Last Year, When Sai Sudharsan was in Australia with the India a team, He Reached Out to Power-Hitting Coach Shanon Young to work on his t20 batting. Young, A Specialist Power-Hitting Coach who has worked with the likes of Glenn Maxwell, Marnus Labuschagne, Babar Azam, and Jake Fraser-McGurk, Invited the Southpaw to his CRRCKET PERFORONCET PERFORONCET PERFORONCET PERFORONCE Melbourne.“His bat starts on the ground and his hands are quite low. He generates a lot of power from of Momentum, which he he actually brings that through the downswing, he’s generating force on the ball that gives he more power just trust of that thatest
A less days ago At the Arun Jaitley Stadium, Sai Sudharsan Reached a Triple-Figure Score with a Six that Went Straight as an Arrow Over the Head of Bowler Kuldeep YADAV. He finished the chase with a six. He is currently leading the IPL 2025 Run Charts with 617 Runs. It’s not just the number of runs he has scored; It’s the way he has scored them. His Strike Rate is 156.99. This season he’s hit the most boundaries (68) and sixes (20) in his ipl career.Despite Playing An Aggressive Brand of Cricket, Sai Sudharsan Hardly Loses Shape. Against delhi capitals, he showed his full range of shoots. He Pulled, Cut, DROVE, SWEPT, and also played a less dinky ramp shots on bot sides of the wicket.“A lot of people now, be it fraser-mcgurk or jos buttler, have started holding the bat high. Higher He generates the Momentum in the backswing, which allows him to also play more traditional cricket shoots through that power play.That’s why his game is perfectly suited to all three formats, “He says.Holding the shapeYoung Credits Sudharsan’s Stable Base and Height for Not Losing Shape While Hitting Big Sixes in T20S.“He has a really stable base, and I was surprised when he came in; He’s quite tall. I don’t know his actual height, maybe six feet two inches [just over six feet]The interesting thing with that is he bats tall. When he generates power through his hands via the backlift, his base is stable, and he doesn’t to do anthing else to generate that power. So he can do it through a really stable base, and then he uses the ground really well, resulting in a really fluent bat swing, “Explains Young.
The movement of the bat backward and upward before a batsman swings to the ball.
What is Backlift?
Young reviews sai have the highest recorded wingspan of any professional player they have had in the lab. “This means the distance between his outstretched arms is much higher than his height. It also also also helps with leverage and energy swinging the bat,” He says.The workSai Sudharsan Reached Out to Young with the help of a couple of his old surrey teams, kobe herft and laurie evans. Young and his team prepared a presentation backed by data and biomechanics. The Opener Spent Three Hours at the Lab with his Elder Brother Sai Ram and Mother Usha Bhardwaj Watching from the Sidelines.“We Didn’T do a Whole Lot Technically with Him. We Talked About How He Uses The Ground. Through the ground. So when you understand the science of power Most of the biomechanical analysis and the Science sugges that the greenst force we can generate is by using that stored energy through the ground.Who’s that IPL Player?“So the analogy I use is, ‘imagine a spring. If you stand on a spring and then take your foot off the spring, what happens to the spring? It will bounce.’ Now that is because that spring has stored energy. So power hitting is very similar; The energy we store in our body before we get to the point of contact is the energy that gets transferred through the ball at the point of contact, “Explains young.
A Batsman’s Strong and Balanced Lower Body Position, Providing a Foundation for Generating Power and Mainting Control.
What is Stable Base?
Young Says Why Sai Looks So Elegant even while Hitting Big Shots is beCause, Unlike The Current T20 Bashers like Fraser-McGurk, Travis Head, Or Abhishek Sharma, He Doesn’T Playsn’T Playsn’T-RESNK SHARMA, He Doesn’T Game.“Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Fraser-McGurk-They’re Playing High-Risk Cricket. The returns are high, but the risk is also high. Now, Shubman Gill and Sai Sudharsan at GT Are Minimising The Risk by Playing Traditional Cricket Shots but with HIGH IMPACT, “He Says.What is BPI?DURING SAI’s Visit to the Lab, Chris Hall, Who Works at the Lab as a Bat Fitter, Pinpointed a Few Problems with the five Bats Sai was carrying with Him.
Shanon Young with Shai Sudarshan and Chris Hall, Who Works at the Lab as a Bat Fitter. (Special Arrangement)
“I think he had five bats, all lovely bats. All we WARE WARIOUS In Various Stages. The thing is, when the propr come in, obvious they have some some new bats, they have their face, and what we do have the modify bats So they all effectively swing the exact sweet way.“So across those five bats, there were slight variations in weight and shape. This is also what we do at the performance lab;“BPI is a balance point index. That our technology we use to determine how a bat swings and feels, essential matching a player’s bat to his swing technique and Physical Strange,” Says.
A proprietary technology developed by Shanon Young’s Cricket Performance Lab to Objectively Measure How a Bat Swings and Feels, and to match it to a player’s technique and strength.
What is BPI (Balance Point Index)?
“Traditionally, when you have a bat, let’s say always, there weight, there’ll be a certain weight, and he’ll say, ‘I like it,’ I like it, ‘and you guys do the metrics. Most of the bat stuff we do do is still old school, stil in pounds or imperial. But all we’ve had the ability to do as cricket players and coaches is choose bats on weight and how they look, you know, you’ll see people flick them for ping and all that Sort of Stuff. Now what we did is we came up with a bpi metric that allows us to place an objective measurement on the feel of a cricket bat.
Sai Sudharsan and His Modified Bats at the Cricket Performance Lab in Melbourne. (Special Arrangement)
“What Haappened was when sai came in and he hit with all his bats, and we measure his exit velocity, his launch angle, how much ground force he had, his bat Velocity, Backlift Angles. We Captured Heaps of Data, and We Went Through the five Bats and then Showed Him The Data of the one that one that actually performed the best.
The distance from the fingertips of one hand to the fingertips of the other when the arms are outstretched horizontally. In Cricket, A Larger Wingspan Can Aid in Leverage and Bat Swing.
What is Wingspan?
“Then we took the other for four bats and made them exactly the same as the one that performed the best. I Took His Bats, Got Them Modified, and Dropped Heis Back to His Hotel The Next Day. Turned His Bats Around Quicker Than Normal, “He Says.While He Sits Atop The IPL 2025 Run Charts, Sudharsan is not just showcasing form, he’s making a compeling case for the future of Indian batting: One that blends data-DRIVEN PRPARIN PRPARTH Traditional GRCE.
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