Indian Cricketers resist new Decision review technology
India’s reluctance to introduce the Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS) is beyond any comprehension. The system was introduced to review any minute actions that may go unnoticed by the visual senses of the umpire.
The decision to launch UDRS was a visionary step by ICC to adequately employ technology in cricket. Technology oriented observations helped the umpires in making fair and unbiased decisions. Sometimes the position of umpires used to get controversial because of innocent wrong decisions. Although, the intentions of umpires might not be to intentionally harm a particular side, yet his decision may transform the whole scenario of the game.
Resistance to change is a normal human instinct, however, a fair analysis for any advantages of the change would always facilitate in making a rational decision. Indian cricketer’s resistance to the employment of UDRS is beyond comprehension. It has been known that Indian players including, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mahendra-Singh-Dhoni-c73820, and, Sachin Tendulkar are opposing the new system. BCCI’s indecisiveness on the issue has further exacerbated the situation.
India is the host for 2011 World Cup and the ICC Committee has already directed to fully implement the system. However, ICC must accept partial responsibility of incorporating additional clauses with its directives. According to ICC, the decision to use UDRS has been left at the discretion of host teams in consensus with the visitors. Whenever a shaky decision is taken, it faced the same consequences. With such an effective system, there was no need to leave it on the wishes of the host team or the visiting team. While the system was equally beneficial to all sides, the unnecessary controversy attached with UDRS seems useless.
The inventor of the system has urged upon ICC to provide him an opportunity to brief the opposing players about the true worth of the system. The UDRS is based mostly on ball tracking technology. According to the inventor of the system, player’s apprehensions are based on ignorance and he could change the attitude of the players if he is given a chance to explain it.
The system was first tested in Sri-Lanka. The trial of the system in match between India and Srilanka proved disadvantageous for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750. Since then Indian players have been reluctant to adopt the system. But the inventor of Hawk-Eye, the ball tracking technology that is most often used for the UDRS, has said the players' doubts simply reflect a lack of understanding and is confident of altering the mindset if given a chance to explain the technology to them.
Paul Hawkins, the managing director of Hawk eye innovations also asserted the same phenomenon that Indian players would accept the system open heartedly once they understand it. It is due to some misunderstandings about the system that Indian players are resisting the UDRS. He rejected the apprehensions regarding cost issues of the system. Paul http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gary-Kirsten-c58527, as fruitful and claimed that many of the Indian coach’s queries were answered by him.
The UDRS was planned to be used in the India http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028, wanted to have a fool proof system to be developed by ICC. The system included ball tracking technology, super slow-motion cameras and audio feed from the stump microphone. The triangulation procedure is adopted by the Hawk-Eye to track the ball’s trajectory during its travel from bowler to batsman. Similarly, high speed video cameras record the ball’s path which further transmits the data frame wise to a computer system. The same data is then employed to determine the future movement of the ball. Like every other technology, the system also involves a small margin of error up to 2.6mm. According, to Paul Hawkins the implementation of the new system would bring revolutionary changes in the game.
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