The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is looking at the possible way out to use the Decision Review System in their upcoming series against Sri Lanka in the UAE. “We are keen to use the DRS and are working on it to implement it in the series with Sri Lanka this year,” a PCB official said.
He admitted that the biggest problem facing the PCB in having the DRS was the absence of an agreement with its TV broadcaster, Ten Sports, on its mandatory use and the extra costs involved in the exercise. “Since having the UDRS is not part of our agreement with our broadcaster, it means an extra cost of $40,000 to $50,000 for us,” he said.
The official said despite these issues, the board was keen to use the DRS especially after the recent decision of the ICC that it be used in Tests and ODIs in a bilateral series with the technology of hot-spot and audio-tracking. “As far as the use of ball tracking technology is concerned (Hawkeye) this can be used if both boards agree on using this technology although it would mean extra costs for the hosts,” the official said. The PCB official said that the board was in favour of using the DRS in the coming series as technology had helped remove errors. “Our players support this technology. We had even tried to have it for our home Test series with South Africa last year in the UAE but things did not work out with the broadcaster. But this time we will be holding talks with our broadcasters to see how the technology can be implemented and about the extra costs involved in it,” he said.
