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BCCI accepts DRS on 'trial basis'

A presentation was made by the ICC general Geoff Allardice in New Delhi on October 19 to convince the Indian board that was attended by BCCI president Anurag Thakur and chief coach Anil Kumble.

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After reluctance all these years, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has accepted to use the Decision Review System (DRS) on a "trial basis to evaluate the improvements made to the system, over a period of time" for the five-Test series against England starting on November 9.

This will be the third Test series that India will be using DRS after they agreed to do it on a trial basis in Sri Lanka in 2008 and then once again on the England tour of 2011, though DRS was not used for LBW decisions.

The BCCI said on Friday: "In the meeting with the ICC and the Hawkeye officials, the improvements made to the system were further evaluated by the BCCI team, who were satisfied that most of the concerns and suggestions that were expressed by BCCI over a period of time, were addressed to a significant extent."

Among the changes that have been effected includes introduction of ultra-motion cameras to address issues with regard to calculating the predictive path which allows the ball tracking, to be more accurate.

A presentation was made by the ICC general Geoff Allardice in New Delhi on October 19 to convince the Indian board that was attended by BCCI president Anurag Thakur and chief coach Anil Kumble.

Thakur said: "We are happy to note that Hawkeye has institutionalised all the recommendations made by BCCI. Based on the performance of the system and the feedback that we will receive, further continuation in forthcoming series will be decided. We recognise the enhanced role of technology in sport and BCCI will lead such initiatives in coming days, and enrich the viewer experience."

Welcoming BCCI's use of DRS was former India captain Dilip Vengsarkar, who, though was still unsure about the ball-tracking system.

Vengsarkar told dna: "The LBW decisions are not 100 per cent accurate. But then, nothing is 100 per cent correct. LBW still depends on the ball-tracker. A batsman playing forward is hit on the pad, he is eight feet outside the crease. Anything can happen from in those eight feet from the point of impact to the trajectory towards the stumps. The behaviour of the pitch is not exactly captured by the technology.

"By using DRS, the mistakes will only be minimised. We might as well accept DRS as it comes in handy for catches. I am still not convinced about DRS' use for LBW as I still don't believe in ball-tracker. Though, using DRS on a trial basis is not bad at all."

Significant changes in DRS include:

Introduction of ultra-motion cameras to address issues regarding calculating the predictive path that allows ball tracking to be more accurate
Manual intervention to set the impact point has been controlled by the introduction of the 'Ultra edge', which has been approved by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and will help in determining the frame of impact
Ultraedge also ensures that post impact balls do not affect the predicted path or impact point and hence the accuracy has been improved
HawkEye has developed technology to record and save all images so that in case an operator fails to arm the tracking system, the images can be rewound and replayed
Additional cameras to be installed so that there is redundancy and also provide 100 per cent reliable spin vision for DRS

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