Decision Review System has been making quite a buzz in the cricketing world from last week or so because of some controversial decisions that were made by umpires during the opening test of Ashes 2013 series. India has never been a huge supporter of DRS and with the recent statement of ICC”s Chief executive Dave Richardson that “DRS is not full proof yet”, things are much more clear.
Richardson was quoted by Times of India saying, “India has its own reason for not going for DRS and surely they are debatable. Improving the technology to get more number of correct decisions is our important agenda. Apart from that, introducing three reviews rather than two is also on the list.”
"The fact is that there are 10 members and each has got a vote. Anyone can say that "listen we don't want to agree". If atleast seven countries are ready to agree to use DRS, it will be done," he said.
Few of the decisions that were made by Aleem Dar and Kumar Dharamsena came under the severe criticism, especially off Stuart Broad which did made the significant difference in the outcome of the match.
Former South-African keeper was quoted by Indian Express saying, "I think we need to put things straight. It was a difficult Test match and the pitch wasn't easy one. Every five overs, something was happening and we needed to come clean and admit the errors. There were seven umpiring errors and four were corrected."
"In an utopian world, we love everything to be perfect but that's not the case. Despite all the guidelines and protocols, we still have aircrashes," he said.
Richardson also pointed out that the local T20 tournaments that have created buzz because of the issue of corruptions and spot-fixing are under the list of zero tolerance that is made by ICC. Apart from that he also expressed that the Australian or an English umpire might be given a chance in the Ashes series but for now it’s just in the talks of ICC.
ICC Chief said, "We have given it a thought of having non-neutral umpires but then if he makes a mistake, the perception of being bias comes into picture. Apart from that the big issue of corruption is there in some of the domestic T20 leagues on which ICC are currently having an eye on."