Hotspot In Cricket

Posted on March 24, 2009
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Hotspot Technology In Cricket

Hotspot Technology In Cricket

Hot Spot technology is an infra red imaging system used in cricket in order to know precisely whether the ball hits the bat or pad of the batsman.This technology sometimes uses in cricket for adjudication.

The mechanism of hot spot is that it uses 2 infra red cameras which are placed at either end of the ground.These infra red cameras sense and measure heat generated by a collision,for instance ball on pad,ball on bat,ball on ground or glove.Using a subtraction technique a series of black and white negative frames are generated into a computer,perfectly localising the ball’s point of contact.

Followed by the declaration of ICC,the hot spot technology has been used as a part of its ongoing technology trial in the 2nd and 3rd tests in South Africa recently.

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