Applying technology is just not Cricket

I’d been advocating that both FIFA and ICC have to endorse technology, again and again. 

• In case of FIFA, it was during the time of FIFA World Cup and the question why they aren’t adopting GLT (Goal Line Technology) (May 2011)
• In case of the Cricket and BCCI it was the reluctance on the part of Indian Cricket Team and the Cricket Board to adopt to Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS) (Mar 2011)

But events in the past few weeks have made a mockery of the technology as it exists now.

• the Phil Hughes LBW dismissal in Sri Lanka vs Australia has put the question on the reliability of Hawk Eye
• the Hot Spot technology was tarnished by Michael Vaughan’s unnecessary comments about Vaseline on Laxman’s bat during the 2nd test at Trent Bridge.
• Rahul Dravid, the main stay of Indian batting during this tour of England has been dismissed twice (as of now) - once in test and once in the first ODI due to faulty Hot Spot technology.

It is a clear case that the technologies are not good enough to be a hundred percent correct in the case of Cricket.  Such technologies may be good enough in other sports - like Hawk Eye in Tennis and Line Technology in Athletics, but as they stand now, they are not Cricket.

With that after patting me in the back twice today, I take it a foot-and-a-half down and give myself a swift kick where it hurts.
:-D

BTW an interesting fact I read on the weekly quiz on Deccan Chronicle today -
Q: Hawk Eye was adopted in the US Open in 2006.  Who was the first player to use the Hawk Eye technology?
A:  Mardy Fish.

Get it?  ‘Hawk’ Eye and Mardy ‘Fish’.

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