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Channel Nine have axed the controversial decision-review technology Hot Spot ahead of this summer’s Ashes series.
The Australian inventor of the technology, Warren Brennan, confirmed to Fairfax Media that Channel Nine had opted not to use the technology for the five-Test series, beginning on November 21 in Brisbane.
Brennan indicated that the cost of the technology, which would total $250,000 across the series, was the driving reason for why Channel Nine had axed the system.
Hot Spot was blighted by a series of questionable reviews during the recently completed Ashes series in England, won 3-0 by the home side, in which the Hot Spot technology either missed an edge or provided an inconclusive resolution.
It leaves ball-tracking technology Eagle Eye, audio from stump microphones and close-up slow motion replays as the DRS technology available to umpires.
It comes after a recent ICC announcement in which they indicated that the DRS process would be reviewed.
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