Bermuda cricket stats supremo Lorenzo Tucker left for India last night for a week-long training course devoted to new computer software which has revolutionised the way the game is analysed.

The XL Capital employee, who scores full-time in the summer for Warwick Workmen?s Club, has been working on and off with the national side since 2004 and has now been asked by national coach Gus Logie to assume the role on a more permanent basis.

But his job will entail considerably more than making entries in an old-fashioned scorebook.

In Chennai, as part of an International Cricket Council funded programme, he will learn to operate a sophisticated new database which, with the help of a camera rigged directly behind the bowler?s arm, is capable of logging in minute detail every ball bowled and every shot played.

Meru Sport?s analysis software system is used extensively at Test and One-Day International level and is now slowly being adopted by those in the lower echelons of the world game such as Bermuda, Scotland and Ireland.

?The data that can be made available to coaches is incredible,? said Tucker, who looks set to become a full-time member of Logie?s support staff both at home and abroad.

?I will know a lot more about the programme in a few days time but from what I understand there is no limit to what it can show.

?The statistics of every player can be broken down and analysed. It will be possible to see how a batsman typically reacts to a ball pitched in a particular area ? what shot he tends to play and how productive that shot is.

?We should be able to log the lengths and the lines the bowlers are bowling as well which would be incredibly useful in showing both the coach and the players whether they are landing the ball consistently in the right areas or not.?

Immediately following his training in India, Tucker will join up with the national squad in Dubai, where they are to play five games in nine days against the United Arab Emirates.

?It?s such an incredible opportunity for me and I have a lot to thank the BCB and my employers for,? Tucker added.

?I get a lot of satisfaction out scoring but this is going to take what I do to another level and should really benefit Bermuda cricket as well.

?I?ll only catch the last two or maybe three games in Dubai, but I?m already looking forward to seeing what this programme can do.?