Captains disagree on DRS technology
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July 21, 2011, Thursday
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ENGLAND captain Andrew Strauss expressed reservations yesterday about the decision to dispense with ball-tracking technology during the four-test series against India starting at Lord's today.
The Indian cricket board has refused to accept any ball-tracking technology in the series which means players will be not be able to ask for reviews of leg-before-wicket decisions.
Both governing bodies must agree before the system can be used.
Strauss told a news conference he thought the Decision Review System (DRS) had worked well over the past 12 to 18 months.
"I think we are getting more decisions right as a result of it," he said. "It's a good thing but as it happens we can't use the full DRS in this series.
"We are going to have to deal with the kind of halfway house we've got at the moment. I don't think it's ideal but that's the situation we face ourselves with."
Strauss's counterpart Mahendra Singh Dhoni said the Indians were not 100 percent convinced about the reliability of ball-tracking technology to show whether a ball would have hit the stumps.
"Until we are 100 percent satisfied we will not really go with something that is not 100 percent satisfactory to our views," he said.
An International Cricket Council (ICC) statement released yesterday said the minimum standards of infra-red technology and stump microphones would be used during the series to help adjudicate on catches.
ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat said it was common knowledge that the world governing body and the England and Wales Cricket Board would have liked ball tracking to allow lbw decisions to be reviewed.
"The last chief executives committee and board meeting in Hong Kong agreed to independently confirm the accuracy of ball-tracking technology. This will now take place as a matter of urgency," he said.
Both captains said they had decided on their final XI for the 2000th test and the 100th between the two countries but both declined to say who had been included.
The Indian cricket board has refused to accept any ball-tracking technology in the series which means players will be not be able to ask for reviews of leg-before-wicket decisions.
Both governing bodies must agree before the system can be used.
Strauss told a news conference he thought the Decision Review System (DRS) had worked well over the past 12 to 18 months.
"I think we are getting more decisions right as a result of it," he said. "It's a good thing but as it happens we can't use the full DRS in this series.
"We are going to have to deal with the kind of halfway house we've got at the moment. I don't think it's ideal but that's the situation we face ourselves with."
Strauss's counterpart Mahendra Singh Dhoni said the Indians were not 100 percent convinced about the reliability of ball-tracking technology to show whether a ball would have hit the stumps.
"Until we are 100 percent satisfied we will not really go with something that is not 100 percent satisfactory to our views," he said.
An International Cricket Council (ICC) statement released yesterday said the minimum standards of infra-red technology and stump microphones would be used during the series to help adjudicate on catches.
ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat said it was common knowledge that the world governing body and the England and Wales Cricket Board would have liked ball tracking to allow lbw decisions to be reviewed.
"The last chief executives committee and board meeting in Hong Kong agreed to independently confirm the accuracy of ball-tracking technology. This will now take place as a matter of urgency," he said.
Both captains said they had decided on their final XI for the 2000th test and the 100th between the two countries but both declined to say who had been included.
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