Kabuni Meets K L Rahul. Cricket Gets Sensors. The Art Survives, Obviously.
Former captain Sourav Ganguly partnered with UK-based AI platform Kabuni, while Test vice-captain K L Rahul teamed up with Bengaluru startup str8bat to launch the KLR1 x str8bat batting kit. The platform measures angles, timing, and positions. Dasgupta frames coaching as two halves: measurable science and irreducible art, with AI only permitted to touch the former.
What we see here is the doctrine of bounded instrumentation. AI quantifies what is quantifiable and leaves the rest alone. The reader's mental model: sensors capture biomechanics, never intent. The mechanism is measurement partitioning, which draws a bright line between data and wisdom. Grassroots players get faster feedback. The coach keeps the job that matters.
Kabuni, a UK-based AI cricket platform, partnered with Sourav Ganguly. str8bat, a Bengaluru startup, collaborated with K L Rahul on the KLR1 x str8bat kit. Dasgupta, presumably a coach, articulates the art-versus-science split.
- Open your phone's camera and record yourself performing a batting stroke or any athletic motion from a side angle.
- Download a free motion analysis app such as HUDL Technique or similar, and use its slow-motion and angle tools to examine your joint positions at key moments.
- Compare your recorded angles across three attempts and note which variables correlate with better contact. Expect to see measurable differences in timing and body position that a coach would otherwise describe verbally.