Mumbai: India are moving closer to agreeing to the use of the umpire Decision Review System (DRS) despite a string of controversies during the current Ashes series which have cast doubt over its future.
The Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI) have resisted previous attempts by the International Cricket Council (ICC) to introduce the television technology, even though every other Test-playing nation has agreed to it.
Influential players, including Sachin Tendulkar, are said to remain resistant to using the technology, which is provided by home broadcasters, amid concerns it is still not accurate enough to be relied upon completely.
BCCI officials have also expressed concerns about the quality of the pictures provided to umpires and have said they could only agree to the use of DRS if every decision could be reviewed — a move resisted due to the time this would take out of the game.
Currently, teams lose their right to review if they make two wrong calls. But a compromise, which would see reviews deemed ‘umpire’s call’ not count against an unsuccessful team, is now on the table.
ICC elite umpire Nigel Llong has been trialling a series of updated technologies in a truck in the Old Trafford car park in an effort to speed up the system.
