Hot Spot makers reject Vaughan’s ‘vaseline’ claims
August 2nd, 2011 - 7:10 pm ICT by IANSLondon, Aug 2 (IANS) BBG Sports, the company that owns the Hot Spot technology which is used for the Decision Review System (DRS) in cricket, has rejected former England captain Michael Vaughan’s claims that the technology fails to spot edges if vaseline is applied on the side of the bat.
The controversy erupted when Vaughan suggested that V.V.S. Laxman may have applied vaseline to the edge of his bat, which helped him escape a caught-behind appeal on the second day of the Trent Bridge cricket Test.
England were convinced that Laxman had edged a James Anderson delivery. Hot Spot did not show any deflection, though Snicko showed there was a noise as ball passed bat.
“We have done testing over the past two days in our office and can conclude that putting vaseline on the side of a cricket bat has no discernible effect on our Hot Spot system. Maybe if you were able to apply 10 millimetres (a centimetre) of vaseline on the side of the bat it would make a difference but we believe that this would be near impossible to achieve,” BBG Sports said in a statement.
Warren Brennan, the owner of Hot Spot, had said the device’s accuracy is around 90-95 per cent and can be impacted by such things as bright sunshine and the speed of the bat in the shot.
- No Hot Spot for India-England ODI series - Oct 06, 2011
- DRS back in spotlight in India-England series - Jul 31, 2011
- Shastri, Hussain in war of words over DRS - Jul 31, 2011
- 'Hot Spot' camera shortage for 2011 World Cup cricket matches - Aug 05, 2010
- Tendulkar's favoured Hot Spot technology owners go cold on WC after CWG fiasco - Feb 13, 2011
- India 117/2 at lunch, trail England by 104 runs - Jul 30, 2011
- Pot shots taken at "Hot Spot" for failing test of infallibility - Nov 27, 2010
- Shastri's two caps with ICC and BCCI - conflict of interests? - Aug 07, 2011
- Clarke demands ICC action on video referrals after Bell 'edge' - Jan 06, 2011
- BCCI, Tendulkar want UDRS to be accurate - Jun 17, 2011
- Hot Spot blinks, no DRS for India-England series - Oct 07, 2011
- Salman Butt voices 'Decision Review System' doubts - Jul 31, 2010
- Laxman's half-century takes India to 117/2 (Lunch report) - Jul 30, 2011
- Implement DRS on permanent basis: Dar - Oct 04, 2011
- We have the potential to bounce back: Laxman - Jul 28, 2011
Tags: aug 2, bbg, brennan, bright sunshine, captain michael, centimetre, controversy, cricket bat, cricket test, deflection, discernible effect, drs, england captain, hot spot, james anderson, michael vaughan, spot technology, trent bridge cricket, v v s laxman, vaseline