“Making correct decisions is our main concern,” says International Cricket of Council (ICC) after England had won the first Test at Trent Bridge in Nottingham by 14 runs. There were as much as seven errors that were made in this match, out of which fours were rectified and that’s what gives ICC a faith in technology and the standard of umpiring.

Out of those seven errors, three decisions were marked as uncorrected errors which included one against Jonathan Trott when a correct LBW decision was overturned. Remaining couple of errors came against Stuart Broad (catch at slip and LBW not offering a shot) but those could not be corrected because Aussies were not having any of their reviews available.

"The umpiring team was assessed to have made seven errors during the match, out of them three were uncorrected decisions and four decisions were corrected using the DRS," the ICC said in the statement.

"As such, the correct decision percentage before reviews stood at 90.3 per cent but climbed to 95.8 per cent as a result of the use of the DRS. This represented an increase of 5.5 per cent in correct decisions, which was the average increase from DRS Test matches in 2012-13. When coupled with the conditions, with reverse swing and spin playing an important role, and the added intensity of the first Ashes Test, it was a difficult match to umpire," the statement said.

ICC went onto say that it wasn’t an easy condition for even the umpires and they appreciated the work of Dar, Dharmasena and Erasmus who have consistently performed at a high level. “It can be denied that umpires had a bad day at the field just like players but at the end of the day we should abide by the umpire's decision, right or wrong. On the basis of just few decision raising questions on the credibility of umpire is not a good thing and moreover technology has actually given a boost to the confidence of ICC as there was an increase in the number of correct decisions in the Trent Bridge Test through the use of the DRS,” said the statement.

On this issue, stand of ICC Chief Executive David Richardson was quite clear as he said, "Technology was introduced with the objective of eradicating the obvious umpiring errors, and to get as many correct decisions as possible. If it can help increase the correct decisions by 5.5 per cent, then it is a good outcome, but we must continue to strive to improve umpiring and the performance of the DRS."