India’s stance on DRS baffles Cricket Australia’s executive, James Sutherland – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/James-Alexander-Sutherland-c65430, Cricket Australia (CA) Chief Executive, is baffled by the decision of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to oppose the Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS).
The chief operator, while speaking to 'The Age', asked the Indians why they resist the implementation of DRS considering the technology is there and there is an interest in it.
Sutherland said, “The technology is here, the viewers are watching it on TV and we're not using it. The number of decisions that were correct have increased with the introduction of DRS and I think the entertainment value of cricket has increased as a result
of DRS.”
The CA urged the BCCI to change their stance on the review system. Sutherland believes that the only way Indians will go for the controversial technology is if some awful decisions to go against them.
Mocking the Indians, Sutherland said, “Perhaps we need some pretty awful decisions to go against Indian batsmen.”
BCCI has been in direct opposition to the implementation of DRS ever since its advent in 2008 during the tour of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758.
Team India agreed to a washed down version of the technology on their tour of England earlier this year, under which lbw decisions were not to be referred by teams. However, they repudiated the technology on Australia’s tour.
Sutherland holds true that not everyone in Team http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 is against DRS. According to the chief executive, only a couple of players refute it and once these players get the confidence in the technology, BCCI will approve it.
Sutherland said, “There are a couple of players within the Indian team who don't have a lot of confidence in DRS. I suspect that is perhaps a reason why the BCCI haven't really approve it at this stage.”
The BCCI and DRS saga resurfaced during the first Test match at Melbourne when two of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andrew-Graham-Downton-c44379 Cowan, were given out by the on-field umpires while replays showed otherwise. Australian media and press lashed out at team
India for refusing the DRS and things haven’t changed much since then.
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