Why it matters
A review day costs $20,000 to $30,000 before anyone travels.
Traditional decision-review and broadcast analysis brings 15 to 20 people to the ground: camera operators, analysts and a truck, moving with the fixture. Day rates run $20,000 to $30,000 before logistics, and even a stripped-down four-camera setup starts around $12,000 to $15,000 a day. That is why the technology only reaches the top tier of the game.
Chrio replaces the crew with software. Detection, prediction, render and output run on a single workstation at the ground, operated by one person, for roughly 0.15× the cost of a traditional analysis day. Domestic leagues, regional tournaments and academy cricket become viable broadcast clients. What a review day costs, and what it could cost.
- Traditional crew
- 15–20
- people on site
- With Chrio
- 1
- operator, one machine
- Day rate today
- $20–30k
- before logistics
- Logistics with Chrio
- $0
- no truck, no travel
Three products, one detection pipeline
One camera feed in. Three products out.
Every Chrio product reads the same feed through the same detection and event pipeline, trained on 30 TB of footage from PSL, National T20 and Tri-Nation cricket. Improving the tracker improves all three at once.
CritShot — live shot analysis overlay
LiveTested at a national-level fixture, March 2025.
Reads the delivery, the field placement and the game state, then renders the shot the batter should have played as a 3D avatar inside the broadcast, with a difficulty score for the call. It is the same rhetorical move as an LBW projection — showing the viewer what would have happened — applied to batting.
See CritShot on a live feed
CritDRS — decision review for domestic cricket
In developmentBall tracking is built and shared with CritShot; collision detection and multi-view fusion are the current focus.
Pitching, impact and wickets adjudicated from the same tracked trajectory, without a dedicated review crew. Built for the tier of cricket that review technology has never reached.
Concept render. Teams and players shown are fictional.
How decision review works below the international tier
CritRate — live player performance ratings
In developmentA 1 to 10 rating for every player, every match, computed from in-game performance as it happens rather than assembled afterwards by a panel.
Concept render. Teams and players shown are fictional.
What CritRate will doTechnology
Six stages, one workstation, broadcast out over NDI.
The camera feed comes in. Three detectors, YOLOv8, YOLOv11 and Detectron2, vote on every frame, and SAHI sliced inference recovers the balls too small for a full pass. An LSTM and XGBoost stack predicts the shot. Blender renders the avatar. The finished overlay leaves the machine as an NDI (Network Device Interface) stream the broadcast truck already knows how to take.
Models are trained with TensorFlow and Roboflow and served on Nvidia hardware. Detection accuracy on cricket gameplay footage is 98.67% in model V5, September 2025, up from 20.95% in the first model version in September 2024.
- 01Feed inBroadcast camera, SDI capture
- 02CNN consensusThree detectors agree
- 03SAHI recoverySliced inference for small balls
- 04LSTM · XGBoostShot prediction
- 05Blender render3D avatar in real time
- 06NDI outStraight to the broadcast




- Tooling credits, not partnerships.
Measured, not asserted
From 20.95% to 98.67% across five model versions.
Detection accuracy on cricket gameplay footage went from 20.95% in the first model version, September 2024, to 98.67% in version five, September 2025 — 4.7× the original.
The largest jump came between V4 and V5. The training set reached 30 TB of PSL, National T20 and Tri-Nation footage along the way, and the validation set is more than 10,000 deliveries of professional match footage.
- V1Sept 202420.95%—
- V2Dec 202424.02%+3.07 pts
- V3Feb 202535.65%+11.63 pts
- V4Mar 202539.87%+4.22 pts
- V5Sept 2025 · latest98.67%+58.80 pts
Distribution
Trans Group and TPT carry CritShot to a national broadcast.
Trans Group is one of Pakistan's leading sports rights, media and production groups; Trans Production and Technologies is its production arm. The partnership takes CritShot from a review desk at a national-level test to the live feed millions of fans watch.
Chrio has been incubated by the National Incubation Center Islamabad, NSTP PITB and Invest2Innovate, whose support has carried R&D, funding readiness and product development.


In the field
Tested at the ground, not in a demo room.
CritShot ran at a national-level test in March 2025 with one operator running four feeds, game state and live metrics from the broadcast box. The team has since worked pitch-side, in exhibition booths and on competition stages.
Founders
Abdullah Zubair Ghouri
Co-founder. Started Chrio in May 2024 as a second-year computer science student at FAST-NUCES, raised the SAFE and signed the Trans Group partnership. He leads the company and the commercial side. Also worked on RL agents at Motive and LLM training at MAVN AI.
“Every game deserves technology that makes cricket more intelligent, transparent, and exciting. That is the future we are building at Chrio.”
Saffi Muhammad Hashir
Co-founder. Owns the technology end to end — the detection models, the real-time vision pipeline that holds 30 FPS on a single GPU, and the NDI layer that puts it on air. Cut per-frame inference from 200 ms to 33 ms; his VFXGen research placed first on the FiVE-Bench benchmark at ICCV 2025, at a twentieth of the compute. Has led a team of 25 engineers and contractors across seven platforms.
“The best technology becomes part of the game itself. Our goal is to make powerful AI feel instant, reliable, and effortless.”
Recognition
- Google for Startups Cloud ProgramScale Tier, up to $25,000 credits · Sept 2025
- National Ignite AI Wrapper AwardRunner-up · Oct 2025
- HBL P@SHA ICT AwardsRunner-up · Sept 2025
Incubated at NIC Islamabad, NSTP PITB and Invest2Innovate.
Also built here
Dhundo: the same engineering pattern, a different problem.
Chrio also builds Dhundo, a product search engine for Pakistan that reads 136 stores in parallel and returns one list sorted by price. It runs at dhundo.store.
It is on this page for one reason: it is the same engineering problem as the cricket work. Fan out across many sources at once, reconcile what comes back, and answer under a deadline. CritShot runs three detectors as a parallel consensus ring; Dhundo runs 136 store adapters across three scraper fleets and reranks what returns. Two problems, one habit.
Dhundo also publishes a page whose entire purpose is to limit its own claims, including a section headed "What cannot move the score". Review and AggregateRating structured data cannot ship, and a test in CI enforces it.
- 136
- stores read in parallel
- 51,612
- searches run
- Rs 1.11B
- in price differences surfaced
- 966
- users
Read from Dhundo’s live stats.
Bring CritShot to your broadcast.
If you produce cricket — a league, a board, a tournament or a channel — the fastest way to find out whether this fits your fixture list is a thirty-minute call with the engineers who built it.
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Abdullah Zubair Ghouri, Co-founder
abdullahzubair@chrio.siteSaffi Muhammad Hashir, Co-founder
saffimuhammadhashir@chrio.siteIslamabad
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