
The argument refuses to die down. While the West Indies tour of Australia has players pointing to deficiencies of the UDRS and umpire Mark Benson reported angry enough to want to quit altogether, the Sri Lankan captain believes his team was hard done by with India not using the technology.
Kumar Sangakkara spoke out about how the employment of the Umpire Review Decision System would have greatly helped his team in the Test series that India won to go up no.1. Sangakkara has told mediapersons that the lack of technology, which was made mandatory by the ICC, was not used in India and therefore, cost his team thereabouts of 500 runs.
His views echo that of the Sri Lankan coach, Trevor Bayliss, as well who stated that Tillekeratne Dilshan was given dubious decisions which could have perhaps been reversed had the system been put in place.
There are concerns about the system in Australia where a few of the decisions have irked the players and others have had the umpires in knots. Although Benson is said to have quit the Adelaide Oval Test over an undisclosed illness, many in the inner circle believe Benson had had it with the arguments with the Australian captain, Ricky Ponting, as some of his decisions were brought into question.
Not everyone is happy with the level of technology currently in use and Shivnarine Chanderpaul’s dismissal on sixty-two has brought the consternation out in the open.
Wonder what the reactions will be in South Africa after the hosts initially turned the UDRS down only to now say they will be using it in the series against the touring England team?
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