Around the Grounds
Australia
Hawk-Eye operators have worked in Australia for several years now, recently witnessing England's Ashes defeat in 2006/07. Hawk-Eye tracked every ball, from Harmison's opening wayward wide to England's vital victory in the Commonwealth Bank Series.
Grounds include: Adelaide Oval; The Gabba, Brisbane; Bellerive Oval, Hobart; The MCG, Melbourne; W.A.C.A. Ground, Perth & Sydney Cricket Ground.
Use of Aerial imagery during the Australian tours is sourced by local companies. Hobart Image supplied by TASMAP (www.tasmap.tas.gov.au) © State of Tasmania.
New Zealand
Grounds include: AMI Stadium, Christchurch; Basin Reserve & Westpac Stadium, Wellington; Eden Park, Auckland; McLean Park, Napier; Seddon Park, Hamilton; University Oval, Dunedin.
England
Grounds include: Bristol; The Riverside, Chester-le-Street; Edgbaston; Headingley; Lord’s; Old Trafford; The Oval; The Rose Bowl; Sophia Gardens & Trent Bridge.
DID YOU KNOW? Hawk-Eye’s broadcasting debut came at Lord’s, ‘the Home of Cricket’ in 2001. The technology was used as part of Channel 4’s BAFTA award-winning coverage of the Ashes series: cricket coverage has never looked back since.
India
Hawk-Eye has a long association with cricket in India. Recently, Hawk-Eye sent two units to the Champions Trophy in 2006, operating in Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Mohali and Mumbai (Wankhede); worked on the 2007 'Cricket Star' programme based at the MIG Ground in Mumbai and even set up the company’s Virtual Reality Cricket and Umpiring Games at the British Embassy in Delhi.
Other grounds include: Cochin, Delhi, Faridabad, Goa, Guwahati, Indore, Jamshedpur & Nagpur.
Pakistan
Grounds include: Faisalabad, Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Multan, Rawalapindi & Peshawar.
Malaysia
Hawk-Eye operated at the DLF Cup in Kuala Lumpar. The triangular series saw India take on the West Indies and Australia in September 2006.
South Africa
Grounds include: Cape Town, Centurion, Durban, Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth & Bloemfontaine.
DID YOU KNOW? The Wanderers saw two of the biggest ODI team scores in the history of the game. Australia posted 434-4 against hosts South Africa in 2006, only to see the Proteas triumph with an astonishing 438-9 with one ball remaining. Hawk-Eye operators were there.
Hawk-Eye also sent three teams to the inaugural ICC World Twenty20 Championships in South Africa in September 2007. Highlights included eventual champions India beating close rivals Pakistan in a group stage bowl-out, Zimbabwe humbling the mighty Australians and Chris Gayle's magnificent century under the floodlights of the Wanderers in the tournament's opening fixture.
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| Cape Town (Newlands, 2006) | Kingsmead, Durban (2006) |
Sri Lanka
Grounds include: Colombo (SSC & R. Premadasa), Dambulla, Galle & Kandy.
West Indies
ICC Cricket World Cup 2007
Seven weeks, nine islands, sixteen teams, fifty matches and four Hawk-Eye units: Hawk-Eye’s debut at the ICC Cricket World Cup provided a host of challenges.
The tournament began back in March 2007, with three Hawk-Eye operators at each of the group venues. St. Kitts saw Herschelle Gibbs hit six sixes in a single over, producing one of Hawk-Eye’s most memorable Wagon Wheels, and Mark Boucher hit the fastest fifty in World Cup history, yet South Africa still qualified in second place behind the favourites from Down Under. Mathew Hayden was handed the freedom of the tiny island following the fastest ever World Cup century (from 66 balls) and Ricky Ponting’s men looked imperious.
India posted a record World Cup total of 413/5 at the Port of Spain, Trinidad but failed to emerge from the “Group of Death” containing Bermuda, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh; England struggled to second place behind New Zealand in St. Lucia and Ireland upset the odds in Jamaica to qualify behind the West Indies, at the expense of Pakistan.
Three Hawk-Eye teams went on to the Super 8s in Guyana, Barbados, Antigua and Grenada, witnessing Brian Lara’s last game in a West Indian shirt at the Kensington Oval and watching Australia stride impassively towards the latter stages of the competition.
The top four qualifiers met in Jamaica and St. Lucia for the semi finals: Sri Lanka vs New Zealand and Australia vs. South Africa. Then, a few days later, after seven weeks of cricket, it was time for the final in Barbados. Hawk-Eye was there to see the Gilchrist-inspired Australians romp to victory against Sri Lanka. The chaos that ensued meant that Hawk-Eye's debut World Cup Final was also the first occasion that Hawk-Eye have had to try and track in the dark!
Antigua (Stanford Twenty20, Sticky Wicket), Recreation Ground, and Sir Vivian Richards Stadium
The inaugural Stanford Twenty20 Tournament at the Recreation Ground in Antigua saw Hawk-Eye in situ for the duration of the event. Hawk-Eye returned to the island during the World Cup in 2007, operating at the new Sir Vivian Richards Stadium.
Grounds include: Barbados, Grenada, Guayana, Jamaica, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, Trinidad & Tobago
