DRS no longer mandatory

[Manly]

I refuse to get into any sort of discussion because I will just end up getting myself banned.

 

[iridescentt]

This whole issue isn't even worth discussing. Its so straight forward.

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Bat lubrication was proven to be a myth too. Some claim thrown out by Tony Greig iirc.

A supposed test undertaken by the HotSpot crew found that you'd need at least a whole centimetre coat of Vaseline for it to make a difference.

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* Rage *

Boycott Indian test tours.

 

[stefan]

Also I ask a question to whose who blame ICC for not having balls to tame BCCI. If you feel the ICC is so weak kneed, why doesn't your board stop being a member of the ICC and try to draft its own ICC or try to run its own international cricket or whatever?

Because CSA is corrupt and the culprits like majola rather enjoy their BCCI money...

 

[WubbaLubbaDubDub]

This whole issue isn't even worth discussing. Its so straight forward.

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A supposed test undertaken by the HotSpot crew found that you'd need at least a whole centimetre coat of Vaseline for it to make a difference.

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* Rage *

Boycott Indian test tours.

You are free to do so. Go write a letter or personally meet yiur board and tell them stop tweaking playing against

It wont make much difference. Right?

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Because CSA is corrupt and the culprits like majola rather enjoy their BCCI money...

So why not mention these idiots too? Why only BCCI everytime? If they like to lick BCCI's ass for money even they are corrupt and mention them too

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[Themer]

Just because we might be among a minority here as far as our views on DRS goes, doesn't mean you start throwing around such words.

I wasn't "throwing around such words" because you're the minority. I was because DRS has been proven to increase the numbers of correct decisions by 5% yet you refuse to use it because you doubt its reliability?

An Idiot : someone who acts in a self-defeating or significantly counterproductive way.

Last time I checked removing something that increases the number of correct umpiring decisions is counter productive.

 

[Sureshot]

I don't like the DRS because it has introduced the element of suspicion.

You think DRS has brought in the element of suspicion to decisions?

Yeah, before DRS suspicion never existed when a fielder took a catch that was within mm of the ground, or a batsman saying he didn't hit it when he did, or the suspicion that actually the bowler bowled a no-ball, but we can't refer, oh no, that'd be completely wrong.

 

[puddleduck]

I remember when there was a smalll group of small-minded people that thought playing cricket over one day in stupid pyjamas was the most ridiculous idea ever. I also remember when a narrow-minded board thought that reducing the now staple 50 over cricket to 20-20 was crazy talk and would never work. There was also a large proportion of a continent that thought the world was flat.

Funny thing about progress is, eventually it overtakes the people who can't see past their own noses (or wallets). So, as I said, wait until a company that has some financial ties to India creates a ball-tracking technology, and I'm sure as long as they can profit from it, they will see the sense...

Ha Sureshot, I tend to ignore Tony "It's in the aiiir, we'll slaughter them" Greig. It's a shame I share his surname, but the man is an idiot more often than not as you have nicely pointed out.

Although one has to wonder whether someone that then brings up the very same unproven speculation that Greig made as reasons not to use the system is more or less of an idiot. I think I'm too much of an idiot to figure it out ha

 

[Rehan_24]

Are you for real? Or, are you someone from BCCI?



You are awesome. Just post some sense, maybe you can't but, still try to.

I wish it read, 'DRS mandatory', as many others do.

hmm... You cant understand that essence dear. Truth really hurts actually

 

[Gaurav_7]

How is relating ST with this a truth? It's not like he didn't score any hundreds when DRS was there.

 

[Rehan_24]

Even the DRS wants sachin to do more centuries. so nobody should get afraid of having the DRS. It actually helped the game of cricket and made the things more reliable than ever.

 

[AngryPixel]

Okay lets just accept for a second that Hotspot and Ball tracking bot are inconclusive and inaccurate. Still why the fearsome tweak can't BCCI/ICC use the simple High Def television replay. It would help correcting bat-pad/pad-bat decisions which are the larger portion of wrong lbw's given. It can also help in correcting the lbw decisions where ball is pitching down the leg side.
Just remove that artificial lines that producing company puts on replay and let the third umpire take a look at slow mo replay. It can't hurt, right. It will only improve the decisions.

 

[puddleduck]

It's actually one of the reasons for some of the controversy is that the 3rd umpire had quality footage, whilst we might well be watching in on SD and not actually see what the umpire sees.

Oh well, really is pointless discussing it, much as it's pointless trying to get the BCCI to do anything that doesn't stand to make them money.

 

[Owzat]

If the ICC could bend over even more for the BCCI, they'd have their head up their ass.

I think they're worried the BCCI will form a breakaway Asian association and the ICC lose the income from the cricket mad asian fans

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Yes. Lets not use technology that has been proven to increase correct decisions by 5%. Idiots.

That is the underlying point though, whether it is 100% accurate or not, unless it increases the number of bad decisions then it is an improvement Otherwise original decision stands relies on original decision being correct.

I don't think it goes far enough and limits on reviews weakens the point, the point being to eradicate mistakes and if a mistake is made and goes uncorrected because a side has run out of reviews then it fails to achieve the aim.

Let's not kneejerk over-react to the odd instance it hasn't worked or been flawed. I do get the increasing feeling that the Indians wish to dictate terms too much and they should be forced to accept a majority vote one way or the other - their fans too

 

[SLICKR392]

FYI. How unfair was those DRS decision in the India tour England matches & the Aussie tour to SL.
What are umpires for...? If you guys cared about the review system so much then why did umpire Marais Erasmus go against the hot spot?
DRS should be used only if its PERFECT not unfair or well.."Vaseline" is fair right?

 

[Sureshot]

And again, the company behind DRS showed you'd need like a cm of vaseline for it to be of any use. You can't hide that on the edge of a bat.

Seriously, I'm going to start deleting posts that talk about vaseline. It's like saying the earth is flat, we've proved it's not so, so STOP IT!