Hot Spot in difficult situation

MUMBAI The Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) may have confirmed the use of the DRS (Decision Review System) for the forthcoming home series against Australia, but the BBG sports, may find it difficult to supply the Hot Spot cameras (the important components used for the system). We are in a difficult situation in trying to supply Hot Spot for both the England v. India and Sri Lanka v Australia series, Warren Brennan, the BBG sports Director, said from Melbourne before boarding his UK flight yesterday. BBG contacted TenSports in mid April 2011 about using Hot Spot for their broadcast of the SL v Aus matches. They said they would like to use Hot Spot if they were able to find a sponsor to cover the costs. TenSports notified BBG in mid May 2011 that they were still unable to find a sponsor for Hot Spot for the SL v Aus series, he said. By the end of June 2011 BBG decided that rather than keeping its two new Hot Spot cameras available for the SL v Aus then it was better to send these two new cameras to the UK for testing during the Eng v India series. We accordingly notified BSkyB, ICC and the BCCI that our latest Hot Spot technology will be unveiled at Lords for the Eng v India starting July 21st and we are expecting that it will remain in the UK until the end of the series against India. Now if we had been informed early enough we could have organised to bring two Hot Spot cameras back from the UK in order to send to Sri Lanka, but because of the Hot Spot carnet situation we are unable to do so. Carnets act as short term passports for equipment that is sent to overseas countries, he further added. Once equipment is sent on carnet to a country then this carnet cannot be broken as all equipment must be returned to the country of origin as a whole. We are unable to send two of the older Hot Spot cameras to SL while leaving the other two in the UK. When they leave the UK all 4 of the older cameras must leave together. The only other option is that the 2 new cameras that are travelling to the UK today are diverted back to Australia and then sent to Sri Lanka for the Australian series. The big problem for BBG is that we have already notified the ICC, BCCI and BSkyB that the new cameras will be available for the UK series, Warren Brennan concluded.