The science behind why a cricket ball swings | The Hindu In Focus Podcast
b'This is a rare episode in which we\\u2019re discussing sports but we\\u2019re taking a slightly different tack today - we\\u2019re going to look at the science behind why a cricket ball swings and use the opportunity to highlight some really interesting research that\\u2018s been happening in this area.\\nOur immediate motivation, of course, is the day night test match currently underway between India and Australia that\\u2019s being played with a pink ball. The pink ball is, of course, relatively novel in cricket and there\\u2019s still a lot of curiosity and attempts to understand how it behaves differently to the red and white ball. So, while we address the pink ball in the course of the conversation today, we don\\u2019t restrict ourselves to it. We talk overall about the general mechanics of swing and the various factors that affect it.\\nOur guest today, Professor Sanjay Mittal teaches at the Department of Aerospace Engineering at IIT Kanpur and for the past several years he has been leading a team of researchers conducting experiments to understand the physics governing the swing of a cricket ball.'