Sehwag would 'love' UDRS in Tests and ODIs

[Sachinism]

Virender Sehwag is usually seen playing a different game to his team-mates and the practice has extended to the Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS). Reacting to two of umpire Rod Tucker's decisions, when Abhimanyu Mithun and Ishant Sharma were given out caught off the pads, he stressed the need for the UDRS, a stand at odds with that expressed by the Indian thinktank. "It happens in cricket," Sehwag said. "Sometimes the umpire gives you good decision and sometimes a bad decision. But yes, I would love to have that referral system in Test cricket, or even in one-day cricket. That is my personal opinion." As a team, though, India haven't been a fan of the system. In the ongoing series, India created a talking point by not acceding to Sri Lanka's wishes of having the UDRS implemented. Sachin Tendulkar has often said that the system, without full-fledged technology, leaves him uncomfortable with it. "I am not fully convinced with that," Tendulkar had said earlier in the series. "When we were here last time, I wasn't convinced with many decisions. I didn't feel comfortable. It was an experiment, which I felt was - I would much rather go with the Hot Spot because that establishes the contact between the bat and the ball. It's far better system according to me. And if there is something else to go with that. Then it would be much better." Especially on days like the third day of the P Sara Test, when the ball is turning sharply, when there are fielders around the bat, when there are times that they are appealing every ball, the UDRS becomes more pertinent. At least two close LBWs were missed, and two batsmen were wrongly given out. http://www.cricinfo.com/sri-lanka-v-india-2010/content/current/story/471115.html

[Lord]

only Sehwag could've said that

[cowboysfan]

If you ask an honest man a question then you will get an honest answer,no prevarication at all

[fineleg]

SRT, RD, Kumble all have acted like idiots in this regard of UDRS. Thankfully VS is at least being sane. What has been Dhoni's take on udrs?

[Laaloo]

MS Dhoni explained his side's decision with what has been a genuine concern with the UDRS: why challenge decisions when the best available technology is not being used? "DRS is still not a 100 % correct system," Dhoni said. "We have seen that, in spite of having the DRS, not everything goes correct. Most of the teams have played a series under the DRS, so it is important now to come up with a foolproof plan. See what exactly works. In a bat-pad scenario, Hot Spot really works, it is close to over 98 % correct. Even on LBW decisions, we need to have something like that." http://www.cricinfo.com/sri-lanka-v-india-2010/content/story/467049.html

[thevortex]

Well, folks, Sehwag has not said anything that his team mates have not :). For the kind of bat pad decisions that he was talking about, Hot Spot is called for. And remember it is NOT UDRS that the players are against. It is about the presence of one technology which is not accurate (Hawkeye) and the absence of another technology which the players feel is relatively accurate (Hot Spot). That is all.