Bootcamp builds analytics product
Akshat Modani of Bowler Academy mentored more than 100 students at Manav Rachna Institute to build a full analytics product in an afternoon, presenting a rapid data‑to‑insight workflow. The session was shared as a hands‑on example suitable for undergraduate projects in cricket analytics. (x.com)
More than 100 students at Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies spent one afternoon building a cricket analytics product with Bowler Academy co-founder Akshat Modani. (buildwithai.reskilll.com) Reskilll’s event page lists Modani as a mentor for “Build with AI at MRIIRS” on April 13, 2026, a free online workshop with 250 seats. The page says the session was designed as a four-hour, hands-on build rather than a slide presentation. (buildwithai.reskilll.com) The basic idea in sports analytics is simple: turn video or match data into measurements a coach or player can use. Bowler Academy says its product uses computer vision from smartphone video to estimate bowling speed, line, length, and ball trajectory automatically. (bowleracademy.com) That makes the workshop more concrete than a general coding lesson. Students were not just writing sample code; they were working through the same data-to-insight flow that cricket training products use to turn raw footage into pitch maps, session summaries, and progress tracking. (bowleracademy.com; buildwithai.reskilll.com) Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies already markets programs in data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, business intelligence, and analytics. A cricket-focused build gives those subjects a sports use case that undergraduate students can test without needing a professional team or lab hardware. (manavrachna.edu.in; bowleracademy.com) Bowler Academy pitches itself as a hardware-free training tool for fast bowlers that works with a smartphone camera. Its site says the company is building for players, coaches, and academies that want objective measures instead of judging performance only by feel. (bowleracademy.com) Reskilll, the event partner, describes itself as a platform for hackathons, bootcamps, and tech events serving students, developers, professionals, and startups. In that setup, a one-afternoon product build doubles as both a workshop and a template for student project work. (reskilll.com; buildwithai.reskilll.com) The thread running through the session is speed: a sports problem, a usable dataset, and a working analytics workflow compressed into a single sitting. For students looking for a final-year project, that is a short path from classroom concepts to a demo they can actually show. (buildwithai.reskilll.com; bowleracademy.com)
