Cricket Technology


Snickometer– This technology called Snicko is invented by British computer scientist Allan Plaskett in the 90`s century. Snickometer used in televising cricket to graphically analyze sound and video, and show whether a fine noise or snick, occurs as the ball passes from the bat. The Snickometer is often used in a slow-motion television replay by the third umpire to determine if the cricket ball touched the cricket bat on the way through to the wicketkeeper. The commentators will listen and view the shape of the recorded sound wave.

2.    Hotspot – Hotspot is discovered by French scientist Nikolas biyo.The technique of Snickometer was not considered perfect before the hotspot technology come. This determines whether the ball has struck the batsman, bat or pad. Hotspot shows a bright spot where the ball hits. Hot Spot requires two infra-red cameras on opposite sides of the ground above the field of play that is continuously recording an image.



3.    Hawkeye – This technology is discovered by British Dr. Paul Hawkins in 2001. This helps to visually track the trajectory of the ball and display a profile of its statistically most likely path as a moving image. The onscreen representation of the trajectory results is called Shot Spot. The video from the six cameras is then triangulated and combined to create a three-dimensional representation of the ball's trajectory.

4.    Spider cam – Camera which can go any part of the ground and capture video or image is known as spider cam. (Sorry for explanations like science textbook).This camera are connected by cables all around the ground and are was carried dolly. The camera is controlled by fiber optic cable and software.