India Refuse Decision Review System

[Twizzle]

India refuse to use umpire decision review system for upcoming tour of Australia

• By Ben Dorries
• The Courier-Mail
• October 25, 2011 7:57AM

India face the prospect of being embarrassed and humiliated daily during this summer's tour of Australia after turning their back on the game's technological revolution.



It is understood Channel 9 will still use Hot Spot, Eagle Eye and other technological ball-tracking devices for the marquee four-Test series - regardless of India's refusal to use the systems for umpiring decisions.

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It means that decisions indicated to be wrong by TV technology will stand due to the intransigence of cricket's international political powerhouse.
It could create another hot-blooded summer of contentious decisions with the potential for some of the tensions from India's stormy 2007-08 series here to bubble to the surface again.
Disputed umpiring decisions marred the bitter SCG Test in 2008. Bad blood lingered and India later threatened to go home when spinner Harbhajan Singh was charged with racially abusing Andrew Symonds.
Umpiring will again be a hot topic this summer as the all-powerful Indian board has convinced the International Cricket Council to end the mandatory use of DRS (umpire decision review systems) in international cricket.


Indian board boss President N Srinivasan backed by batting great Sachin Tendulkar, an ardent critic of the technology, made a presentation to world cricket chiefs showing apparent errors in Hot Spot decisions during their recent tour of England.

Under new rules, the DRS system will require the approval of both teams in a series.


Controversy over Hot Spot erupted in England recently when India claimed it had been on the wrong end of several incorrect decisions.
England's former Ashes-winning skipper Michael Vaughan also accused India's V.V.S. Laxman of coating the edges of his bat with vaseline in an attempt to dupe the system.


The first of four Indian Tests will be on Boxing Day at the MCG, with New Zealand to play two earlier Tests in Brisbane and Hobart in December.

http://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket...our-of-australia/story-e6frf3g3-1226175852598

 

[Twizzle]

Further evidence of who is running world cricket, its in our country yet we have no say.

Interesting to read some of the readers comments, especially the ones regarding corruption and the DRS.

 

[Danish]

Give em whatever they want. They are still going to get whitewashed

 

[Timbo]

Good.

If you watched the England/India test series over winter, you would have noticed that 9/10 decisions that could have been overturned went against India.

Let them sook.

 

[Gas Panic!]

Fine by me.

We'll just lobby to have Asoka De Silva umpire the entire series. He is bound to f**k up at least 50% of his decisions.

 

[attila_the_gorilla]

Great stuff, should be an entertaining series

 

[Matt23]

Good.

If you watched the England/India test series over winter, you would have noticed that 9/10 decisions that could have been overturned went against India.

Let them sook.

x2, then watch them have a cry/threaten to go home when someone like Tendulker gets given out LBW off an inside edge

 

[hineyrulz]

x2, then watch them have a cry/threaten to go home when someone like Tendulker gets given out LBW off an inside edge

x3. Whinging Merkins, they'll be the first to sook when one doesn't go their way.

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

SOS Steve Bucknor

Whinging parasites

 

[dogslife]

Lets pull Darrell Hair out of retirement

 

[snoozer]

Fine by me.

We'll just lobby to have Asoka De Silva umpire the entire series. He is bound to f**k up at least 50% of his decisions.

50%! f**k he'll be having a great game if that's his strike rate!

 

[IanG]

Well I just hope they don't whine, cry and piss and moan if the odd decision goes against them. They'll have nobody to blame but themselves.

 

[Tom Shines]

f**k off, it's in our country you merkins.

I hope there are some absolutely rank decisions go against them.

 

[TheParraboy]

Gee, Id love to see Punter nick one behind off Sharmas bowling to be given not out, then progress to a triple ton. Highlight of the summer for mine

 

[yappy]

Bring back Bucknor and Symonds for the SCG.

 

[El Diablo]

i hope the crowd give these filthy merkins hell and they f**k off back to India

 

[snoozer]

i want see them in oz.

i don't care if there's review or not-they'll whinge either way.

if they crack a sad and f**k off back to india, i wouldn't be overly concerned.

 

[Pete Cash]

Does anyone think the reason Indians are against it is because they are taught to play with the bat behind the pad against spin from when they are children to throw enough doubt into the umpires mind that it was bat first when they defend spin?

Indians just seem to play spin that way and with the use of hotspot and slow motion and all those goodies it would show up that technique.

 

[Twizzle]

maybe against other sub continent teams

dont think they got too much to fear from our spin attack

 

[yappy]

I think they're against it because everyone else is for it.