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Hotspot makers reject Vaughan’s ‘vaseline’ claims

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London: BBG Sports, the company behind Hot Spot, has said the application of Vaseline on the edge of a cricket bat cannot affect the technology.

The company said in an official statement that a batsman would have to apply a whole centimetre of Vaseline to the edge of a bat for it to have any impact on the technology.

“We have done testing over the past two days in our office and can conclude that putting Vaseline on the side of a cricket bat has no discernible effect on our Hot Spot system. Maybe if you were able to apply 10 millimetres (one centimetre) of Vaseline on the side of the bat it would make a difference but we believe that this would be near impossible to achieve,” the company said in a statement.

The technology got drawn into controversy after former England captain Michael Vaughan tweeted that India’s VVS Laxman may have applied Vaseline to the edge of his bat, which helped him escape a caught-behind appeal on the second day of the second Test at Trent Bridge. (PTI)

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