UDRS : Umpires and captains support review system

[yoda]

the objective of the UDRS is to remove howlers' date=' so why has no-one thought of reducing the amount of reviews to one? that would force bowlers and batsmen to use it only when they're 100% certain (or very close to it).[/quote'] What just one? In tennis, IIRC they get like 3 challenges per set and that too for a game played by just 2 players. Here we have 11x2 and a gazillion people watching a game over 5 days and we want to give them just 1 review? doesn't make sense.

[teacup]

The third umpire intervention will work for cases when batsmen are given out wrongly because by the time the batsman has started to walk back there is time for the 3rd umpire to check replays and call him back. But it wont work when a bowlers appeal for a lbw is turned down ... what will end up happening is players trying to wait and see if the 3rd umpire overrules before bowling the next ball !!

It will work in both the scenarios. It should not be a big deal to make instant slow-motion replay available to the third-umpire at the touch of a button with existing technology and thus reducing the time taken by the preliminary review. Of course, on those occasions when the third-umpire is not able to view even a single replay before the bowler is ready to bowl is next delivery, he can buzz the on-field umpire and hold up the game.

[thevortex]

The whole point of the game is to empower the officials in the middle to make the right decisions. Once you take it away from them, what is the point in them gentlemen standing out there in sun and risking their lives with Sehwag, Sachin and Smith belting the ball as if it was their sole enemy?! The UDRS system as it is with 3 appeals is fine. What needs looking into is the implementation of Hawkeye. Should the predicted path be made available to the 3rd umpire for taking the decision? How many here feel that should be done? How many otherwise? Just curious.

[Mr Eintstein]

I think 2 is fair. One would be a gamble.

how would it be a gamble? its only a gamble because players choose to use them on decisions that are far too marginal. if teams are given 2 or 3 it just becomes a kind of 2nd chance lucky guess.

[Gunner_Mania]

how would it be a gamble? its only a gamble because players choose to use them on decisions that are far too marginal. if teams are given 2 or 3 it just becomes a kind of 2nd chance lucky guess.

because 1 would mean that if they take a wrong call - which lets be honest is possible - and then the umpire makes a howler, they will be left in the lurch. 2 gives them another chance if the umpire makes a howler. 3 would give them one too many chance. So 2 I think is a fair number. Btw what do you think about carrying over unused ones into the second innings?