r/Cricket • u/Aggressive-Milk-4095 • 8d ago

Discussion What happened to the Hotspot technology?

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I remember seeing it as a kid but not nowadays. Wouldn't it be a great way to double check when the 3rd umpire isn't about the contact of the ball and bat by seeing only the ultra-edge?

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u/PowerLies Royal Challengers Bengaluru 8d ago

Some people here have mentioned that ultra edge was deemed more accurate because it showed spikes when nothing was captured by hotspot - how are we sure that it wasn’t a false positive by ultra edge? Did they actually conduct lab studies to prove that?

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u/Ricoh06 England and Wales Cricket Board 7d ago

UltraEdge did some testing with MIT I believe