The BCCI has made a presentation to the other
member boards of the ICC on the controversial Umpire Decision Review
System (DRS) to show how HotSpot technology had failed during India's
tour of England, said president N Srinivasan.
He said the Indian board convinced the other member boards
to end the mandatory use of DRS in international cricket and make it optional.
"The BCCI takes positions based not just on its own interests but
also on its view on cricket. In England, everyone could see the problems
with Hot Spot, so we took the matter up again. We made a presentation
of the decisions that clearly showed that Hot Spot was lacking accuracy.
That is what convinced the members to revert to an optional DRS,"
Srinivasan said.
In its executive board meeting in Dubai last week, the ICC had
reversed its earlier decision of making the DRS mandatory by leaving its
use subject to bilateral agreements between the participating boards.
The ICC's decision was a reversal from the agreement reached between
the world body and its member boards at the annual conference in Hong
Kong, when Hot Spot was made mandatory subject to its availability,
though the use of ball-tracking was left to the playing boards to
decide.
In England, Hot Spot failed on more than one occasion, with Rahul
Dravid falling victim three times. Another controversy erupted when
former England captain Mike Atherton alleged that VVS Laxman might have
used Vaseline on the edge of his bat to avoid detection by the
technology.
Srinivasan reiterated that the BCCI remained unconvinced about Hot Spot and that it was not a bully of world cricket.
"We are not at all the bullies of world cricket... but on the
contrary we go out of our way to assist other member nations. It's
difficult to dispel the notion that we are (bullies) because it is
constantly referred to, but it is not a fact," he told NDTV.
"The BCCI takes positions based not just on its own interests but
also on its view on cricket. In England, everyone could see the problems
with Hot Spot, so we took the matter up again. We made a presentation
of the decisions that clearly showed that Hot Spot was lacking accuracy.
That is what convinced the members to revert to an optional DRS,"
Srinivasan said.
In its executive board meeting in Dubai last week, the ICC had
reversed its earlier decision of making the DRS mandatory by leaving its
use subject to bilateral agreements between the participating boards.
The ICC's decision was a reversal from the agreement reached between
the world body and its member boards at the annual conference in Hong
Kong, when Hot Spot was made mandatory subject to its availability,
though the use of ball-tracking was left to the playing boards to
decide.
In England, Hot Spot failed on more than one occasion, with Rahul
Dravid falling victim three times. Another controversy erupted when
former England captain Mike Atherton alleged that VVS Laxman might have
used Vaseline on the edge of his bat to avoid detection by the
technology.
Srinivasan reiterated that the BCCI remained unconvinced about Hot Spot and that it was not a bully of world cricket.
"We are not at all the bullies of world cricket... but on the
contrary we go out of our way to assist other member nations. It's
difficult to dispel the notion that we are (bullies) because it is
constantly referred to, but it is not a fact," he told NDTV.
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