Founder of Hawk-Eye hits back at Michael Vaughan for his recent comments

The former England skipper has been in the eye of the storm over his recent observations about the Hawk-Eye feature. Michael Vaughan has been critical about the feature after England’s series loss to India.

Michael Vaughan had said “Stick a camera and microphone in the truck so that we know what is happening and how a human element is involved. You could argue the people running the technology are as important as the umpires on the field”

This comment didn’t sit down well with Paul Hawkins who has founded the Hawk-Eye feature. The former English batter was slammed for his comments as Paul Hawkins termed the statements unfortunate.

Hawk-Eye founder slams Michael Vaughan-

Nearly a week after losing the series to India former skipper Michael Vaughan has been called out. Paul Hawkins has called out Vaughan for his comments after England lost to India in Ranchi.

“The commentary, I think, is a little bit uneducated. It is unfortunate for Vaughan, because, obviously he was a fantastic player, really enjoyed watching him play, and a great commentator, very entertaining. But I think it’s a responsibility to the game” said Paul Hawkins

The founder of Hawk-Eye also said “In terms of journalism. Perhaps a little bit more preparation in terms of his role as a journalist may help him explain what’s happening to the huge fan base of cricket so that what he writes is factually correct. In the same way, as Hawk-Eye has an obligation to be factually correct, perhaps journalists do too”

Speaking about the process, Hawkins said “For every day, the guys will go out and measure the width of the stumps. And so that gets entered into the system. So you’re working off of the actual width of those stumps… So you calibrate the system for the environment that it’s there”

A good process that’s evolved in terms of quality control is that there is a van camera, which is more of an internal process, making sure people aren’t on their phones. But the best thing in terms of quality control is an automatic screengrab of the tracking system is taken and that automatically goes to the Apex Cricket Board. So whilst it will never go to broadcast because there’s lots of intellectual property within those screengrabs for the internal quality control for the people that need to make sure that the technology providers are providing accurate answers, that’s all done” Paul Hawkins added.