Fig 1 : Lighting bails and Stumps (Mahendra Singh Dhoni)
This idea came to Bronte EcKermann of a mechanical industrial designer from Australia. The idea was put into action and product by Zing International and therefor its known as Zing Wicket System. This wicket systems were implemented in a club game in Australia at Adelaide. As we all know that its very difficult to umpire to figure out if the bails have left the stumps while run out or stumping, these wickets proved to be a great and fancy means to get decision right.
Only after three years of research, this research was implemented into international cricket at semi final and final match of under-19 world cup in UAE. In 20 over formats, these stumps were used in many countries by that time. One of the worlds biggest league of cricket also used these stumps that is IPL.
Fig. 2 : Zing bails made up of plastic and Equipped with LED
The stumps and bails are equipped with low voltage batteries to light the LED as shown in above figure and give power to other components inside it like sensors and microprocessors. If the bails are dislodged from stumps contact, the sensor senses and microprocessor makes the bails and stumps to glow the LED. All these processing is completed in 1/10000 th second which is much fast than human recognition. These are made up of plastic and is light weight just like wooden bails.
We all know how a batsman gets out. This stumps makes it easy for umpire and us to analize when bails left the stumps. Now lets know about the price of these sets of stumps and wickets. In the matter of cost, you can buy a iPhone with the cost of a set of Zing Wicket System. Its around 40 thousand USD.
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