BCCI’s influence forces http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 to end the mandatory use of DRS – Cricket News Update
The International Cricket Council (ICC) was forced reverse its stance on the Umpire Decision Review System's mandatory use in all International games, after facing immense criticism from the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s new president, N http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Srinivasan-c90829.
The ICC, on Tuesday, announced that umpiring aids such as Hawk-Eye and Hot-Spot would only be used in International games by the mutual consensus of the playing teams. The world’s governing body took this decision during its recent Executive Board meeting,
conducted in Dubai.
"Although DRS improves correct umpiring decisions by around 5% and corrects any blatant errors, there are some who are not convinced by its reliability. We will continue to work with interested parties to improve the system while permitting the participating
teams to decide whether they wish to use it or not,” said http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Haroon-Lorgat-c61719.
Other than BCCI’s opposition, the smaller errors with Hot-Spot during India’s recent tour to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 also forced the global cricket body to make its use optional.
"This decision is a recognition that Hot Spot was not as reliable as we'd have liked it to be," Lorgat told reporters following a two-day executive board meeting in Dubai.
He added that the technology showed errors on more than one occasion during the India-England series.
ICC in its earlier Executive Board meeting, held in the end of June, made many amendments in International cricket rules - one of which was the compulsory use of DRS in all ODIs and Test matches.
Although, the idea was supported by all cricket playing nations at that time, the Indian board was the only one which did not support its use. N Srinivasan said that they would not back the technology unless they find 100% accuracy in its use.
The Indian board has always been opposing the use of DRS since its inception. Senior Indian players, including skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Tendulkar-c2556 have also been criticising the system.
BCCI would now have a choice to quit the use of DRS in its upcoming home series against England, to be commenced on October 14, 2011.
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