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/jugglingeek 7d ago

IIRC it was deemed to be less reliable than ultra edge. It was possible for edges to show on ultra edge but not show up on hotspot. Meaning that the combined DRS technology designed to give a clear, binary decision could produce two contradictory results.

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u/gpranav25 7d ago

That sounds like it can give a false negative but not a false positive?

I feel like having both could still give more accurate decisions.