India to utilize DRS for home matches

India will be using the Decision Review System (DRS), comprise the audio tracker and Hot Spot, for the first time in all the 13 home international games later this year.

India has always been very voiced in its disapproval of the DRS but it seems the BCCI is warm up for the technology as it will use the DRS for the first time when it hosts England in a two-sided series in October.

The ICC's new guidelines makes it obligatory to use DRS in Tests and ODIs and Warren Brennan, CEO of BBG Sports, which owns the Hot Spot camera technology, said BCCI has asked for the cameras for India's home season.

Brennan told ESPNcricinfo that four Hot Spot cameras would be in use for the five ODIs next to England and three Tests alongside the West Indies, while two cameras would be in place during the five-match ODI series against the West Indies.

The BCCI doesn't have faith and dependability on the ball-tracker technology which is being used in the DRS. It was also not influenced of the system as it is very expensive.

Infact, Senior batsman Sachin Tendulkar and India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni also share apprehension about the correctness of the technology.

Previously, "clear stump mikes", a Super Slo-Mo camera and ball-tracking technology were used in the DRS but under the new system, infra-red cameras will replace the ball-tracker system.

Under the obligatory use of DRS, teams can make two ineffective appeals against an umpire's decision per innings, in all format of the game.

Earlier this year, the DRS, without the Hot Spot cameras, were used during the 50-over World Cup in the sub-continent.

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Bangladesh record first win on tour

Bangladesh restores some pride having previously lost the series after cruise to a six-wicket win in the fourth one-day international next to Zimbabwe in Bulawayo.

Opener Tamim Iqbal top-scored with 61 as Bangladesh, who were 3-0 down in the five-match series coming into today's clash, chase down their victory target of 200 with more than 13 over’s to spare.

Earlier, Zimbabwe captain Brendan Taylor scored 106 at the top of the order but only three more of this team-mates got into twice figures as the home were dismiss for 199 after distress a late-order collapse.

Rubel Hossain over with figures of four for 31 off his nine overs for Bangladesh, who claimed the final six Zimbabwe wickets for just 16 runs.

The victory was Bangladesh's first on tour having also lost their one-off Test next to Zimbabwe and a warm-up match.

Taylor and Vusi Sibanda (18) had put on an opening stand of 40 for Zimbabwe previous to Bangladesh, having won the toss and opt to field, fought back to reduce their hosts to 89 for four.

Taylor then connected forces with Elton Chigumbura (31) and they look to be batting Zimbabwe into a good location as they put on 94 runs for the fifth wicket.

However, the dismissal of Chigumbura and Taylor, who had strike seven fours and a six in recording his fourth ODI century, in the same Hossain over sparked a collapse that saw Zimbabwe, having been 183 for four, fail to reach 200.

Bangladesh was hardly ever in problem in their reply after Imrul Kayes gave them a flying start, club three fours and two sixes in a quickfire cameo.

He fell for a 20-ball 28, but Zimbabwe struggle to rein in their opponent with all top six batsman making aid.

The home side will have sense an opportunity when they dismissed Iqbal, who had strike nine fours in his half-century, and Tuesday's centurion Mushfiqur Rahim (16) in quick series to leave Bangladesh on 129 for four in 24th over.

However, visiting Captain Shakib Al Hasan (39 not out) and Shuvagoto Hom (35no) shared in an continuous 74-run stand to take Bangladesh history the winning line with room to spare.

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ECB threaten to ban county from CL T20 except paid up front

The England Wales Cricket has in danger to stop its county teams from challenging in this year's Champions League Twenty20 in India unless the organizers of the event, the BCCI pay them the participation fees in go forward, according to a report.

The ECB insist that the two counties -- one out of Lancashire and Leicestershire, and one out of Hampshire and Somerset -- will have to take delivery of the money to cover their costs from the BCCI before travelling to India for the tournament in September, a report in the Daily Telegraph stated.

The ECB's statement came after many of the participate teams in the first two CLT20 tournament have supposed that they have either not established their payment on time or in full.

Somerset and Sussex played in the opening CLT20 in India in 2009, but not a single team from England played in the next tournament, in South Africa in 2010, after an argument between the ECB and the Indian organizers over scheduling.

"The payment was late but was paid ultimately, within about five months, and it was paid in full less about 20 per cent Indian government tax," said Richard Gould, who was Somerset's chief decision-making when they participate in CLT20 in 2009 and is now Surrey's.

The CLT20 is at present chosen a window in ICC's Future Tours Programmed, unlike the Indian Premier League which is regard as a domestic competition.

The third edition of the event kicks off in Hyderabad on September 19 with the qualification matches.

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Flintoff criticizes 'shabby' India

Former England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff has questioned the strength level of Indians and also criticized the visiting team for their "shabby" warm routine.

India, which is hopeful to recover some pride and avoid a embarrassing whitewash, has been ravage by the injuries to its key players and has not look its usual self in the tournament so far.

The former Test cricketer, who was required to cut short his international carrier due to a returning ankle injury said, "England look by far the fitter team, teasing that some of the India players were pop out of their shirts'."

The cricketer draws a stark difference between the two teams as they warmed up for the first day's play of the fourth and final Test of the series at The Oval.

"I've not see much of the summer, and this morning I watch the two sides warming up," he said.

"I saw India, and they looked like they'd got their kit out of the garage. They were all in different gear. England looked really professional next to them. They just looked poles apart," he told BBC Test Match Special.

Flint off said he felt sorry for his former England coach Duncan Fletcher, who took over the India job in June after Gary Kirsten decline to expand his contract citing personal reasons.

"Watching the slip catching practice, you had England on one side diving around, the ball effervescent through," he said.

"I used to do it with Duncan Fletcher. I bet you he's tear his hair out. They were applause everything down: the keeper was lost them, the slips were plummeting them. It just looked shabby," Flint off added.

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