Missing the action despite the technology
Giles Smith, writing in The Times , on the Pietersen - Gayle exchange in the first Test at Lord's and how technology, including the newly launched Hot Spot, has let us down
In the absence of big controversies, Hot Spot was used mostly to demonstrate that Kevin Pietersen had again found “the meat of the bat” – a conclusion that most of us were able to reach in advance using nothing more high-tech than the evidence of our eyes as the ball once more headed for the boundary.
Ashok Ganguly is an editorial assistant at Cricinfo