I salute Dhoni and BCCI

[Prakat]

^ what's your previous name?

[Crookbond]

^ SachinLara

[FischerTal]

^ SachinLara

:poink: dont let out the secret..

[Old guy]

^ what's your previous name?

finelegs

[Raghav_12]

It's true that DRS can only improve the mistakes in umpiring dcisions even if it is not 100% correct. However, problem is tactical use of DRS. With DRS one team can defeat other, not by batting better or bowling better, but by using DRS better. And that is utter nonsense to game of cricket.

[King Tendulkar]

How can anyone that's lived through an era of Steve Bucknor, Asoka de Silva, and Tendulkar knock the DRS? Seriously? DRS gets rid of the howlers but changes the odd 60/40 call too. The side that loses out in the 60/40 calls feels hard done by but it's a price worth paying to get rid of the shockers.

yeah probably right

[I6MTW]

if they replace hotspot with snicko then the technology has the potential to be good.

[akshayxyz]

The only problem with the Howler-based principle is that once we have a standard of quality in placee our tolerance for howlers decrease. This is evident already. The most glaring example is seen in run outs. When the batsman is sliding in his bat it is liable to jump and lose contact with the ground by an inch or so. But the batsman is OUT nowadays if the bat leaves the ground by a few centimeters for a fraction of a second when the bails are dislodged. Even when the bat has been slid in over the crease legally and definitely. How is a batsman supposed to control micro-movements of his bat when he is running in full tilt.

^ if you looked at it with a slightly more macro view the run has been completed the moment the bat crossed the crease and the ball is dead before it breaks the bails.

thanks for bringing this up. It is so annoying and unfair. I hope someone in ICC wakes upto this, and get it fixed.

[Sidhoni]

How exactly is Dhoni involved here?

[Sidhoni]

DRS is meant to remove absolute shockers but that is not happening. It is becoming a tactical tool now. The on field umpire should be having the right to go to the 3rd umpire whenever he is having a doubt. According to the rules the on field umpire can't do that for LBWs or edges which is a horrible rule. Maybe they should let 3rd umpire intervene whenever he thinks the on field umpire is making a big mistake like the one in Broad's case.