Kolkata, june 4:They might have played a key role in knocking Rahul Dravid’s side out of the 2007 World Cup, but to take things a step further, the Bangladesh Cricket Board is looking for technical support from India. Less than two years after popular English county side Leceister procured the video and match analysis tools used by the Indian team, Bangladesh are looking to do the same.

Former video analyst of the Indian team, S ‘Ramki’ Ramakrishnan, said the Bangladesh board had decided to buy all the software the Indian team uses. Speaking to The Indian Express from Chennai, Ramki said: “I have to fly down to Bangladesh sometime in the middle of May, with all the tools, and train their coaches on how to handle these tools.”

Chennai-based sports software company Sports Mechanics, of which Ramki is a key operative, furnishes the tools to the BCCI, and will provide the Bangladesh board with SiliconCoach (match analysis software), TimeWarp (advanced video analysis software), Twenty20Pro (analysis tool for T20 format) and Player-Profiling System or PPS (basically a milder and cheaper version of Twenty20Pro).

Although the Bangladesh board will buy these tools in mid-June, it will take some time before they start using it. “The senior side won’t be using it right away. After I train the coaches, then a programme or a tournament will be conducted by the Bangladesh board involving over 1,000 schoolchildren, where the new tools will be used,” he said.

Looking back at the IPL, Ramki reckons that the most crucial point to come out of the inaugural Twenty20 championship was the importance of the “first six overs” of the innings. “The top three-four teams dominated at the start of the innings. In most of the matches, when they batted, they scored an average of 50 runs in the first six overs, and lost no more than one wicket. And when they bowled, they picked up an average of three wickets in the first six.”

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