Dr Paul Hawkins, Hawk-Eye inventor
The first article I wrote to introduce the Hawk-Eye interactive tool discussed how the Pakistan bowlers had targeted England captain Nasser Hussain with short pitched bowling during the Lord's Test in May, and how he could expect the same from the Australians.
So when Nasser got injured at Edgbaston on Sunday my immediate reaction was that the Hawk-Eye predictive capabilities had been extended! However, closer analysis shows that once again Nasser has been the victim of some bad luck and variable bounce.
The ball which hit Nasser pitched 7.8 meters from the batsman's stumps and would have passed the stumps at a height of almost 1.6 meters.
Before then. Bret Lee had bowled four much shorter balls to Nasser, three of which pitched 9.6 metres from the stumps and only would have passed the stumps at just over one metre in height.
Equally, the same variable bounce point can be made about Mark Butcher's dismissal as shown by Simon Hughes in his Analyst's piece at the time.
The figures are that the ball pitched 8.1 metres from the stumps, and would have passed them at 1.5 metres high.
Other points...
In the 2nd innings McGrath didn't bowl a single ball which would have hit the stumps.
Look out for our new graphic to compare the spin bowlers - coming to www.cricket4.com in the next few days.
9 Jul, 2001
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