What Australian sports has technology impacted on?

Answer 1

One popular Australian sport impacted by technology is Cricket. Cricket has always been plagued by erroneous decision making due to the human factors; umpires standing for long durations causing lapse in concentration for example. In recent years, technology is being used to assist certain umpiring decisions. For example, hot spot technology is used in detecting if the ball had a contact with the bat for a catch to be legitimate. They are also using the 'hawk eye' technology to judge the trajectory, height, etc., to decide if a batsman is out 'leg before the wicket'. Collectively the technology package is now referred to as UDRS (Umpire Decision Review System). The game rules now allow teams to request a review, however it all started as assisting umpires.