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BCCI Relents On DRS. Is It A Good Move?

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    • Publish Date: Oct 27 2016 12:29PM
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    • Updated Date: Oct 27 2016 12:29PM
BCCI Relents On DRS. Is It A Good Move?

Ending its long-standing opposition to the Decision Review System (DRS), the BCCI agreed to its usage on a trial basis during India's home Test series against England starting next month.


The last, and undoubtedly the biggest, stumbling block to the ICC’s Umpires’ Decision Review System (DRS) has been won over. India has agreed to use the DRS, three weeks after Test skipper Virat Kohli said in a press conference in Kolkata that he would “definitely want to think about” accepting the review system. The BCCI is the only cricket board that has consistently rejected the DRS since its introduction in 2008. Ironically, the system was first tested during an India vs Sri Lanka Test series in 2008, before its official introduction to Test cricket in November 2009, during the first Test between New Zealand and Pakistan in Dunedin. Sources in the BCCI said that the DRS could be implemented as early as November, when Alastair Cook’s England arrive in Rajkot to kick-start a five- Test series. If not against England, the system could be in use when Australia arrive in India for a four-Test series, or during the one-off Test against Bangladesh sandwiched between the England and the Australia series, the board sources said. Convincing India was a task assigned to Geoff Allardice, the ICC general manager, who made a presentation in Delhi on Wednesday that was attended by the BCCI president, Anurag Thakur, and Team India coach Anil Kumble. It helped the ICC’s cause that its cricket committee’s chief is also Kumble, who along with Allardice was witness to the research by engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who were last year asked by the ICC to independently assess the performance of the technologies that are part of the DRS, such as ball tracking and edge detection. Of the three components of the DRS – Ultra Edge (Snicko), Hotspot and Hawkeye – the BCCI and the Indian players have always been uncomfortable with the last part, which is about the projection of the ball movement, generally used for the leg before the wicket dismissals. The BCCI’s contention has been that the Indian pitches are far too unpredictable, especially with the bounce, for the Hawkeye to arrive at a correct decision. However, the presence of the Hawkeye engineers during Wednesday’s presentation was an indication that a considerable improvement has been brought about in the ball-tracking technology. “The technology has improved so much in the last five years, and the effort was to show this improvement to the BCCI,” an official in the know of the developments said. India under Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been a consistent and vociferous critic of the DRS, saying the system, especially while reviewing leg before the wicket and the caught-behind decisions, was prone to massive errors. Things had come to such a pass between the BCCI and the ICC that a few senior Indian cricketers said the umpires were deliberately giving 50-50 decisions against India to pressurise the BCCI into accepting the DRS. During the 2008 series against Sri Lanka, India managed just one successful review while the Lankans got 11 referrals right, prompting the Indian cricketers, from Sachin Tendulkar to Dhoni, to take a visceral dislike for the system. While Kohli and Dhoni were not present during the ICC presentation on Wednesday, there are enough indications that Kohli will be pleased with the development. No-one, even in the BCCI, however knows how Dhoni will be convinced.


Why BCCI had opposed UDRS?
  • No two pitches have the same bounce, the same nature of surface, the same weather conditions, so how does increasing the number of camera frames per second or using vector graphics improve the predictability aspect of the technology? There are parallax and mapping errors too. 
  • For the players involved, it becomes a lottery. Why not refer every tough decision automatically, put the onus on the umpires to double-check ? Why put the onus on the players and give them only two appeals per innings? If a captain is a wicketkeeper, fine, but what if he is standing at point? Will he know then whether or not to appeal for an LBW decision? If the philosophy is to eliminate umpiring error, why not go the whole hog? The ICC will only end up eliminating umpiring error when a player makes a right call to appeal. 


How does it work?
Each team has a maximum of two unsuccessful challenges per innings. The fielding team may dispute a "not out" call and the batting team an "out" call. According to the International Cricket Council regulations they have a "few seconds" to make up their minds and the batsman or fielding captain must signal a "T". The decision goes to the third umpire.

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Ritvik Baweja Bal Bharati Public School

I like this move DRS system will ensure fair play

Bhavana Jaison Atomic Energy Central School No 2

Yes, it''s a good move, system will ensure a fare play .

Darshil Shah ST. XAVIERS - LOYOLLA -2 LOYOLLA 2

This is a good reform by BCCI. There will be a fare game now on wards.

Mansi Borade PADUA HIGH SCHOOL-MANKHURD

YES! IT IS ..............

Sarath Kumar RM Bethel Mat Hr Sec School

That''s a good move by BCCI. This can make the decisions better.

vatsal kothari Jain International School

Decision review system is something worth supporting because i feel one bad decision by the umpire can at times ruin the career of a player. With appropriate technology and a good spirit the game will reach great heights ! Appreciable move .

Onkarpreet Bhavan Vidyalaya

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Himanshi Dhawan Saffron Public School

DRS is a good move as it often comes up with the solution of the dilemma of both the players as well as the spectators. Fair decision should be taken and I guess DRS targets at fair decision.

Onkarpreet Bhavan Vidyalaya

This is definitely a good decision.

V.Aditya Pon Vidyashram - Valasaravakkam

DRS system will improve playing in cricket

Khushi Sharma BHARTI PUBLIC SCHOOL (SWASTHYA VHR)

The step initiated will definitely enable fair play

kaviya.s Bethel Mat Hr Sec School

It is definitely a good move by BCCI......

Sharmeen Khan PADUA HIGH SCHOOL-MANKHURD

DRS will ensure that there are no unfair decisions taken. It surely is a good move by BCCI.

Aditi Sahi D C MODEL SCH PKL-SEC-7

It is not an infallible technology so when there are chances that it can make error, it might not make any difference and still make the process complicated.

kaviya.s Bethel Mat Hr Sec School

Yes it is a good move by BCCI....

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