Australian players go hi-tech for Twenty20
The Australians will wear vests with global positioning systems during the Twenty20 match against New Zealand and the data collected will be shown by Nine , Alex Brown reports in the Sydney Morning Herald .
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
The Australians will wear vests with global positioning systems during the Twenty20 match against New Zealand and the data collected will be shown by Nine, Alex Brown reports in the Sydney Morning Herald.
The players are unlikely to be significantly inconvenienced by the computerised vest, given that several of them have been wearing similar technology during games for the past few months. Michael Hussey, Mitchell Johnson and Nathan Bracken wore GPS equipment as part of an Australian Institute of Sport trial to monitor players' workloads, and vests were worn during Australia's recent one-day tour of India and the Test series against Sri Lanka.
Jon Pierik and Ben Dorries question the commitment of Australia towards Twenty20 after Ricky Ponting and Matthew Hayden were not part of the squad for Perth. AAP reports about the fall of Ben Hilfenhaus, who missed a place in the team.
Peter English is former Australasia editor of ESPNcricinfo