Cutting Edge Technologies in IPL

Technology used in sports is often a compliment to human limitations, and it has in many ways improved games and their experience. It is important to remember though that also technology has got its constraints and isn't definitely exact. Hence there are various reasons to strive towards balance between technology and human capital in sports.

In this blog we aim to highlight the different technologies creating changes to the game and rules of the Indian Premier League (IPL), in addition to how technology is affecting all the groups of interests: players, viewers, coaches and decision makers.

3/28/2010

The Hawk-Eye

Technology is often employed in sports as a solution of the human limitations. One of such is the Hawk-Eye, which is a predictive tool, originally derived from missile-tracking technology and used also in other sports such as tennis. The Hawk-Eye is used to reproduce the image of what really happened or should have happened, using the line and length of the ball to decide for example whether or not the ball would have hit the stumps.
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3 comments:

  1. Tennis & TechnologyApril 14, 2010 at 6:08 PM

    I think this is one popular new technology used in the sports, as it is mentioned the” Hawk-Eye” is used in Tennis, too. In tennis this technology uses different cameras placed around the court to track the players and the ball but also allows to create a new range of statistics to be captured and presented to the viewing audience, in which they can see for example, service comparisons or the time a player spends in a particular region of the court. It’s very interesting to see how the new technologies can be used in different sports

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  2. Tennis & TechnologyApril 19, 2010 at 2:37 PM

    From Luis: The Hawk-eye is an incredible technology that has revolutionized the sports, because it provide a lots benefits both the players and the umpires. For example, the players can uses the Hawk-eye has an accurate coaching tool to improves his or her skills. In the other hand, the umpires can make more reliable and accurate judgments.

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  3. golfblogApril 21, 2010 at 8:52 AM

    Personally I don't see the Hawk-eye working in Cricket. I know that it's wrong to compare Cricket with Baseball but I see a similarity (in the pitching and batting sense) and do think that Cricket can survive without the need of implementing this type of technology.

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