NEW DELHI – The Indian cricket board has ruled out using the Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS) and also rejected an offer to travel to Australia and watch its Ashes application.
The clamour to use the technology aimed at reducing umpiring errors has been growing but India have opposed UDRS as they are adamant the ball-tracking tool is not accurate enough.
“We don’t accept this technology. We are not going to use it in any bilateral series,” Srinivasan told Reuters over the phone.
Cricket South Africa could not convince BCCI to use UDRS in the ongoing series and an annoyed Proteas captain Graeme Smith said the International Cricket Council (ICC) should make it mandatory.
The BCCI is so convinced of the technology’s limitations that they turned down an offer to travel to Australia where UDRS made its Ashes debut.
