No Umpire Decision Review System for the SL Tour - Summer of 2010

The ICC rule regarding the use of UDRS is that both teams should agree to use it. The rule is not specific to India. BCCI has the right to protect its interest and its certainly not 'strong arming' in this case. I for one do see a point in BCCI's decision. Until the technology sourrounding it is fine tuned, perfected, and consistently institutionalized in every ground and country, its not right to use it. Sports fans should remember a system that was discontinued in tennis which would beep if it felt the ball was out. This was because that technology was not fool proof. Similarly the current UDRS is not fool proof. The 3rd and 4th umpires are not neutral umpires and dont seem to have definitive guidelines on how to interpret the television replays especially for spinners. Folks should remember that if such a system was in place for previous Indian tours of Australia the results would have been different. Australia would have been de-throned long before.