Sky Sports held a final test for Sky Scope during today's Leicestershire vs Yorkshire Benson & Hedges Cup match.

Sky Scope, a brand new innovation to analyse cricket coverage, goes live to air for the first time ever on British television for the Derbyshire vs Pakistan Vodafone County Challenge match on Tuesday 8 May, Sky Sports 1.

Sky Scope uses state-of-the-art missile-tracking technology to measure the exact flight path of a cricket ball and was developed in conjunction with DERA (Defence Evaluation and Research Agency), one of Europe's leading science and technology organisations.

By studying the ball's trajectory before it hits the batsman's pads, Sky Scope will be able to accurately predict whether it would have hit the stumps, giving viewers the answer to LBW calls.

Sky Sports Executive Producer, Barney Francis, said: "We have been testing Sky Scope over the past couple of weeks before we become the first broadcasters to use it during a live match on May 8. Today we had the final 'dress-rehearsal' for Sky Scope at a full outside broadcast with all six cameras in operation.

"We have already seen the new technology come into its own from the production trucks. Earlier, Daniel Marsh was called out lbw to Michael Vaughan and Sky Scope showed that the umpire was right - the ball would have gone on to hit middle and off-stump. So, we are very excited about showing it to our viewers next week. The more we use Sky Scope, the more it will develop, with a range of graphics and statistics that show a bowler's accuracy and the movement he gets from the ball."

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