Bangladesh Cricket Board confirms it won't use DRS in the series against West Indies - Cricket News Update
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), on Sunday, confirmed that it would not use the Decision Review System during the series against West Indies.
The media chairman of Bangladesh Cricket Board, Jalal http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yunus-c98347, told media reporters today that the respective boards, BCB and WICB (West Indies Cricket Board), and the official broadcaster, Nimbus, have agreed that the Decision Review
System (DRS) will not be used for the Bangladesh-West Indies series to be played this month.
"It would be difficult to use DRS given our agreement with Nimbus," the BCB media chairman told the media reporters. "The replays for DRS won't be clear. We have consulted with the ICC and they have also agreed with the issue," he
added further.
The International Cricket Council, at its annual conference in June, had decided to make the use of technology mandatory for all the Test and One Day International series, given a certain level of standards. The ball tracking technology
used for lbws, owing to the criticism it had received during the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 World Cup earlier this year, was made optional, while the use of Hot Spot was made obligatory for all the boards in their bilateral series.
However, keeping in view that Hot Spot is an expensive technology, several broadcasters do not agree to bear the cost of using it in a series.
The Umpire Decision Review System has been under criticism since the day of its inception, especially from the Board of Control for Cricket in India and its players. BCCI decided to adopt technology in its bilateral series during
ICC’s annual meeting in June, but a harsh experience in the recently concluded series against England prompted the board to revert to its original stance against DRS.
The technology remained inconclusive on a few occasions during the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Srinivasan-c90829, said at the board’s annual general meeting last month that the technology was
not good enough to be used unconditionally.
The Bangladesh Cricket Board had initially considered the use of Hot Spot in the upcoming series against West Indies, but the official broadcaster for the series declared that it could not provide the technology.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747, in the latter’s backyard. The series is scheduled to commence on the 11th of this month, with a T20 between
the two outfits.
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