Cricket’s DRS tragedy must ending now

India remains the only Test-playing nation to be share out on the issue of the Decision Review System, yet has not at all made clear why accurately it is in such disagreement with the system.

India has maintain a strong stance next to the DRS since it was used in a Test against Sri Lanka in 2008, where Sri Lanka were able to make wide use of referral while India only managed one single winning review.

Since then the BCCI has said that it will not support the DRS while there is still the opportunity of error within the technology.

Cricket observers consideration this might be close to an end, when India approved to the use of the DRS, with the BCCI affirm that it “always express its willingness to embrace technology”, according to board President Narayanaswami Srinivasan.

A number of errors in the use of Hot Spot once once more led India to shun the system, and in the lead up to the Test series next to Australia, Indian captain MS Dhoni spoke of the technology, saying that “[India] feels the technology is not 100 percent exact.”

But while there were poor decisions also way during the Boxing Day test, India were hurt in Australia’s second innings, where Ricky Ponting was given a life and Michael Hussey several lives, when on a second look either be supposed to have been out.

With the UDRS in place, the match may have accomplished differently.

The referral system might end in a few incorrect decisions, but according to ICC statistics the DRS leads to a correct decision rate of 97 percent, obviously higher than the rate of 92 percent without it.

Dhoni show no interest in the figures, but when will India realize the inherent worth in the use of technology in umpiring, the worth which every other cricketing nation has seen long ago?

Must a spate of ten mistaken decisions in the space of one batting innings damn India to a laughable total before they stop and think that the aptitude to review these decisions might have been a blessing?

Or will world cricket continue to be held with a knife to its throat by the biggest monetary powerbroker in the game?

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