Criticised by former and current international players for being
resistant to full use of Decision Review System, the India Cricket Board
has found backing from the ICC President-in-waiting Alan Isaac who
feels that the technology of the referral system was not foolproof.
 New Zealander Isaac, current ICC vice-president and who will take over the presidency from India's Sharad Pawar next year, backed the BCCI's stance on the DRS, saying he too was not convinced that the technology works "well enough". © Getty Images |
New Zealander Isaac, current ICC vice-president and who will take
over the presidency from India's Sharad Pawar next year, backed the
BCCI's stance on the DRS, saying he too was not convinced that the
technology works "well enough".
The BCCI has expressed its reservations over the ball-tracking (Hawke
Eye) technology used for LBW decisions, saying it is not foolproof and
Isaac felt the Indian board was "right".
"In my experience, they (BCCI) are very decent to work with. Around
the DRS for example, the media have tended to give (India) the blame as
to why the DRS is not being implemented, but it's not only them. I
personally am not convinced the technology works well enough, so we've
got to do something about that," Isaac was quoted as saying by Southland Times.
The BCCI, the other member boards and the ICC reached a compromise at
the world body's annual conference in Hong Kong earlier this year,
making the use of ball-tracking optional for each series while agreeing
to use Hot Spot for every international game subject to availability.
Isaac also claimed the BCCI was right about many issues concerning
cricket but divergent views in the media tend to give the impression
that they are muscle-flexing and difficult to work with.
"Often when (India) hold a view, they are right, but various parts of
the media have a different view, whether you're Geoff Boycott or
whatever. So this perception has built up that A, (India) are hard to
deal with and B, they control world cricket. But in fact they are good
to work with and on the DRS I actually think they are right," he said.
Talking about the craze of cricket in India, Isaac said, "A little
thing that was told to me to help me learn about this role: the
president of cricket in India said to me, 'Alan you need to appreciate
that only 99 per cent of Indians actually love cricket.
"It's really hard to explain. We think we're a rugby-mad country but
there it's a religion. We saw Tendulkar up close in India, he was at a
presidential reception and he had no space, they all just wanted to
touch him."
Spot-fixing scandal involving Pakistani players plunged cricket into
crisis last year and Isaac said a lot is being done to tackle the
problem of corruption.
"It is challenging. Allegedly there is a whole lot of money being
spent betting on sport, not just on cricket and betting on sport in
India is illegal so it's not like you can manage it.
"In New Zealand, Australia or Singapore it's legalised betting and
you can monitor more closely where bets might take place. Part of what
we are doing is making sure the education is there, making sure the
sanctions are there, there's a heck of a lot of monitoring that takes
place.
"You will be aware that guys are not allowed to take their
cell-phones into the dressing room environment and all those types of
things. There's a lot of surveillance in place."
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