Episode 03 - Pitches and Pawns

In competitive sport, today, players don’t have the luxury of time to fix a problem in their technique or a strategic flaw in their approach. Time is of the essence here and AI is trying its best to conserve time. Both with its innate technology to predict and identify the problem and by becoming a tool that can help improve a player’s game.

Credits:

Narration: Harsha Bhogle
Executive Producer: Gaurav Vaz
Producer: Archana Nathan
Research, Interviews and Scripts: Prthvir Solanki
Narrative overview: Charu Sharma and Shriram Parthasarathy
Title track, sound design and background score: Nikhil Rao and Abhijit Nath.

All clips and voices used in this podcast are owned by the original creators

We thank wholeheartedly all our guests who appeared on this episode

• Abhishek Binaykia, the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Product Officer at SpektaCom
• Dr. Siddhartha Sen, a Principal Researcher in the Microsoft Research New York City lab
• Kruttika Nadig, a Woman GrandMaster in the game of chess
• Ashok Karanth is the Co-Founder and CEO of Edisn
• Siddhartha Sen, Principal Researcher in the Microsoft Research New York City lab.

Links to clips used in the episode and citations:

• Highlights of the Tendulkar inning
• Interview with Tendulkar about the inning
• Deep Blue vs Garry Kasparov
• Cricket and AI (use in DRS and ball-tracking tech) 
• Project Maia