Sri Lanka is adopting an advanced software used by football club Barcelona to manage its injury-prone cricketers as the national team trains for the World Cup next year, officials said Monday.<\/p>\n
The island’s cricket board hopes the state-of-the-art player management system will restore Sri Lanka’s prestige on the world stage after their worst year in international cricket.<\/p>\n
The board spent $75,000 on the software, adapting it to suit its cricketers.<\/p>\n
Officials said coupled with a match analysis system designed in-house, Sri Lanka could boast the most advanced player management technology of any cricketing nation.<\/p>\n
“We are investing a lot of resources and technology to develop the game with an eye on the World Cup,” Sri Lanka Cricket chief Ashley de Silva told AFP.<\/p>\n
Sri Lanka won the World Cup in 1996 but have not repeated the feat since, despite twice making the finals.<\/p>\n
They were World T20 champions in 2014 but have tumbled down the rankings, hit by injuries and scandal.<\/p>\n
Under new coach Chandika Hathurusingha, the side has been rebuilding after a year of humiliating defeats and few wins.<\/p>\n
Sri Lanka bounced backed in a tour of Bangladesh in January, thrashing the hosts in all three formats of the game.<\/p>\n
The team’s high-performance manager Simon Willis said the new technology would help selectors and managers monitor their squad’s performance with real-time data.<\/p>\n
“This system will benefit the national team and allow evidence-based decisions to be made,” the former Kent coach told AFP.<\/p>\n
“It’s not cheap, but it is a good investment because it gives us instant information.”<\/p>\n
Sri Lanka’s cricketers will wear GPS devices during training and tournaments to monitor fitness and performance, he added.<\/p>\n
The technology has been rolled out during the ongoing home tri-nation series against India and Bangladesh, with players wearing the GPS devices during matches.<\/p>\n
Willis said instead of subjective decisions about players and their fitness, the new system allowed for better-informed choices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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