Board of Control for Cricket in India president Shashank Manohar said the Decision Review System in its current form was not acceptable to the Indian cricket board as the Leg Before Wicket decision in
Board of Control for Cricket in India president Shashank Manohar said the Decision Review System in its current form was not acceptable to the Indian cricket board as the Leg Before Wicket decision in the system is not foolproof.
“Actually telling the truth, the BCCI was never against DRS, right from my earlier ten-ure. Only issue was with LBW being decided by DRS. For everything else, we accepted but the International Cricket Council told us that either we accept it in full or not.
“We are not willing to accept it for LBW,” Manohar said.
“You shoot it from distance and a Parallax (displacement in apparent positional shift of an object viewed from a distance) develops. Now umpire is imagining the bounce and then a person sitting behind the camera can decide and going to put his imagination in it. In 2011, when we had the meeting, the person in charge of DRS was not able to satisfy our queries. So till it is not foolproof, we would not accept it.”
According to Manohar, he had posed the same question concerning lbw decisions to the DRS manufacturers at an ICC executive board meeting back in 2011.
“Even the person who has evolved this DRS system was not able to answer me and was not able to satisfy all the members of the ICC,” Manohar told fans during a live interaction on BCCI’s official Facebook page.
“And as you know, there are a lot of problems even in the DRS systems which are raised by various countries. Therefore unless and until the DRS system is foolproof with regards to leg-before decisions the BCCI will not accept it.”
A few months ago couple of Indian players, including the country’s Test captain Virat Kohli and lead spinner R. Ashwin, have expressed openness to the DRS without offering any in-depth view.
