Hot Spot

Hot Spot will not be used in India-England ODI series

The controversial Hot Spot has been a disappointment in the recent India-England ODI series and it will not be used in the five-match One-Day contest between the two countries starting on 14 October, according to the head of the company behind the technology.

Hot Spot

Application of Vaseline cannot affect Hot Spot: BBG Sports

What, really, is the role of the cricket pundit?

Vaughan, who is making a decent living out of working for the BBC, the Daily Telegraph, Betfair and Channel Five, rather enjoys stoking the fires of controversy, as do Nasser Hussain and Graeme Swann. Do we have an epidemic here?

Vaseline, walk-offs and dirty politics: The newspapers this morning

Controversies in both politics and sport take centre stage in the newspapers this morning.

Gavaskar, Ganguly slam Vaughan on 'vaseline' controversy

Vaughan's controversial tweet that Laxman might have used vaseline on the edge of his bat to avoid detection by the hot spot technology after a caught-behind appeal against the batsman, has sparked off angry reactions from Ganguly and Gavaskar.

DRS to be made mandatory, but BCCI gets its way too

In most democracies, it would be very easy to simply outvote the BCCI. Instead, what has happened defies logic.