🏏 A cricket wicket can fall in milliseconds… but engineering can capture every frame.

For this motion study, I recreated the classic cricket impact sequence:
ball → ground impact → rebound → wicket collision → bails launch.

Using SOLIDWORKS Motion, the entire event was analyzed to capture the ball’s trajectory, velocity evolution, and impact response.

The animation combines:
• Cinematic rendering using SOLIDWORKS Visualize
• Real kinematic data from the motion simulation
• Trajectory and velocity plots extracted during the study

🔬 Key Observations
• Parabolic Motion – The center of mass follows a stable projectile trajectory before and after ground impact.
• Impact Reversal – At approximately 3.6 m/s, the velocity curve captures the exact millisecond where the ball contacts the ground and reverses direction.
• Momentum Transfer – After rebound, the ball strikes the wicket, transferring momentum that sends the bails airborne, replicating the real match scenario.
To make the sequence more immersive, I added impact sound effects synchronized with the simulation events.

📽️ Full animation attached.
Engineering often hides inside moments we barely notice.
In cricket, that moment decides the match.
In engineering, it becomes data, motion, and measurable physics.