Ashes 2013: Hot Spot can miss fine edges, admits inventor ahead of third England v Australia Test During the Lord's Test there were half a dozen very fine edges and I believe that Hot Spot only missed the Agar one. What we are finding with Hot Spot is that it is much better on spin bowling. The reason for that is because the ball is rotating and turning so much more than from a fast bowler so when it makes contact with the bat it grips, turns and creates more friction showing up better on Hot Spot. Brennan's company, BBG, has invented a new, more sophisticated version of the snickometer and believes the results are encouraging for the future, particularly when used in conjunction with Hot Spot. Brennan hopes real time snicko, as the technology is now called, could be part of the DRS within "three to six months" if independent testing verifies its success. Compared to Hot Spot what we find for snicko is the opposite. When there are slow bowlers snicko is not as good because the keeper tends to stand up to the stumps, is constantly moving and you get noise from his feet which mask fine edges," said Brennan. When the keeper is back for a fast bowler we find snicko is much better. When put all that together both technologies complement each other perfectly. Snickometer is not part of DRS at the moment because of the time it takes for the technicians to assemble the evidence but Brennan believes the improved version speeds up the process. "What I have spent most of my time on over the last 12 months is to come up with a system whereby we record ourselves directly on three or four of the cameras and both the stump mics," he said. We are getting everything we need in our own domain so we can then turn around snicko within five seconds so we can get all that info to the third umpire in the time required. It gives another string to the bow of finding fine edges. The other interesting aspect in this process is because we are recording both stump mics what we generally find is if there is a noise at the batsman's end you can see that noise on snicko on the opposite stump mic between six or seven frames after it has happened. We can't pick up the audio at the non-striker's end from faint edges. If the stump mics there can't pick it up then there is no hope the umpire at the bowler's end will ever hear those fine edges. We presented that to the ICC [on Sunday]. We are heading in the right direction but the ICC want independent evaluation of new snickometer so the video, audio and all the algorithms we have to put in are bona fide. That will be high on the agenda of Friday's meeting and hopefully we can go through that. The DRS controversies during the Ashes have been used in India to vindicate the stance of the Board of Control for Cricket in India which refuses to endorse the system. "We don't need to say anything now," said Ravi Shastri, the commentator who sits on the ICC cricket committee. I've told a lot of people now in India when I've been asked, it's time to shut up, watch, listen and read ... because what [we] have said has been vindicated.