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Michael Clarke speaks with Aleem Dar after his successful review for the wicket of Joe Root. Source:Getty Images
THERE was wild celebration during the opening session on day one of the fourth Test - Hot Spot worked.
The faintest of spots showed up on Joe Root's bat to confirm that he had indeed nicked a delivery from Shane Watson that left him off the Chester-le-Street pitch.
For all the controversy, fuss and nonsense Hot Spot has created in recent days, this expensive technology finally did what it was meant to do.
It also saved umpire Tony Hill from yet another wrong decision. That Hill remains on the elite umpiring panel highlights how much work Simon Taufel has ahead of him as the International Cricket Council's new umpires' manager.
Hot Spot in particular and the umpire decision review system (DRS) in general has created constant controversy in this series because all too often the umpires have not been able to get their decisions right on the field or in the video review box.
The who idea of the DRS is to act as a safety net if the umpire on the field gets things wrong in the instant he has to make a decision.
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Unfortunately decision-making has been in free fall during this series, leading to ludicrous claims of players attempting to cheat Hot Spot by covering the edges of their bats.
Players were covering their bats to protect the face and edges decades before Hot Spot arrived on the scene.
Whatever covering Root may or may not have had on his bat, it did him no good.
The Australians were in no doubt that Root had nicked the ball.
Wicket-keeper Brad Haddin and the slips and gullies went up in unison and when Hill turned their raucous appeal down Michael Clarke did not give a second thought about reviewing the decision.
Given Australia's haphazard use of reviews it was a sign of how confident the captain and his players were that Root was out.
Thank goodness the back-up of technology ensured the right decision was made this time otherwise the mood would have grown darker around using modern machines to correct human error.
There have been a number of frustrating decisions on both sides this series but the two real howlers have both gone against Australia.
The first one came in the opening Test at Trent Bridge when a thick edge from Stuart Broad flew from the gloves of Brad Haddin to Michael Clarke at slip but was given not out by Aleem Dar when Australia had used both their reviews.
The second was against Usman Khawaja on the opening day of the third Test at Old Trafford, when umpire Hill gave him out caught behind despite a ball from Graeme Swann turning well past the outside edge of the left-hander's bat.
Remarkably video umpire Kumar Dharmasena upheld Hill's shocking decision, prompting international outrage that included a tweet from Prime Minister Kevin Rodd saying it was one of the worst decisions he has seen.
Australia asked the ICC to explain the unexplainable and its cricket manager, Geoff Allardice, flew from Melbourne to the UK, meeting the hierarchy of both teams on Wednesday to reassure them about the use of technology.
The ICC is fortunate England and Australia continue to support the DRS given its confusing misuse in this series.
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