Silicone tapes on cricket bats can trick Hot Spot
It remains to be seen whether ICC bans willows with tape at the international level.
Mumbai: Experts and scientists proved that silicone tapes on cricket bats can beat the Hot Spot technology which helps the third umpire judge edges and nicks better.
According to a report in The Telegraph, researchers spent months testing the Decision Review System (DRS) and told the International Cricket Council (ICC) about the menace of silicone.
Now, it remains to be seen whether ICC bans willows with the tape at the international level; or else, Hot Spot will remain in the name of technology.
During the Ashes in 2013, the technology failed to show edges picked up by the snickometer.
England cricketer Kevin Pietersen had sued Channel 9 for they said that the batsmen were deliberately using the silicone tape to deceive Hot Spot.
However, there has been a Real Time Snicko audio technology which balances Hot Spot. It will detect an edge if Hot Spot fails to catch.
But due to the high-price of Hot Spot and Real Time Snicko, funding is a problem. They were not used in the series between England and Pakistan last year.
They cost £6,000 per day.