Automated Third Umpire Decision Making in Cricket Using Machine Learning Techniques

No-Balls and run-out play an important part in every cricket. The amount of human error in calling these has been increasing quite heavily over the last few years This wrong decision had a toll on the entire tournament as the team was one win short of qualifying into the knockout stages of the tournament. In this paper, we propose to automate Run-outs and No-Ball delivery’s decision to overcome the human- error made by the umpires. We examine two machine learning techniques - Support Vector Machines (SVM) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) for this purpose and present our results.