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'Improving umpiring standards should be ICC's priority'

'Improving umpiring standards should be ICC's priority'

WV Raman, writing for Sportstar , questions ICC's repeated proposals to allow mandatory utilisation of DRS, saying the ICC needed to instead look at the objective of improving umpiring.

25-Feb-2013•Abhishek Mukherjee

The circus comes to town

The circus comes to town

It's just that the town is in Malaysia

25-Feb-2013•Andrew Hughes

The DRS has changed everything

The DRS has changed everything

Kevin Pietersen - the man who dominated both Shane Warne and Muttiah Muralitharan early in his career - has quite explicitly blamed the DRS for changing the way he played spin bowling

25-Feb-2013•Nitin Sundar

An umpire's call is final, even with the DRS

An umpire's call is final, even with the DRS

Former Australia bowler Stuart MacGill, writing in the Age , says the DRS isn't 100% accurate and it doesn't have to be, however the call for a referral should be left to the umpire.

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Double Standards Review

Double Standards Review

The MCG Test had enough incidents to suggest that supporting or opposing DRS is far from a black-and-white decision

25-Feb-2013•Nitin Sundar

India's reluctance over DRS a mistake

India's reluctance over DRS a mistake

India's reluctance to accept the Decision Review System is regrettable writes Peter Roebuck in the Hindu

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

The accuracy addict's latest fix

The accuracy addict's latest fix

DRS isn't doing it anymore

25-Feb-2013•Andrew Hughes

Ball-tracking and the unique nature of lbw

Ball-tracking and the unique nature of lbw

From Kartikeya Date, USA

25-Feb-2013•Cricinfo

Randomness rocks raucously

Randomness rocks raucously

In which a measure is proposed to introduce further arbitrariness into decision-making in cricket

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

Talking DRS with the ghost of Frank Chester

Talking DRS with the ghost of Frank Chester

In which a long-deceased umpire weighs in on the review system

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

India's DRS refusal means it's advantage Swann

India's DRS refusal means it's advantage Swann

India's intransigence to the UDRS is likely to prove self-defeating against England's Graeme Swann later this summer, says Mike Selvey, writing in the Guardian .

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

An outbreak of verbal diarrhoea

An outbreak of verbal diarrhoea

Saturday, 11th June This summer there will be no T-shaped gesturing, no slow handclapping from the crowd and no sheepish-looking umpires changing their minds

25-Feb-2013•Andrew Hughes

Don’t shoot the judge

Don’t shoot the judge

Sanjay Manjrekar, writing in Outlook India , finds it amazing that umpiring errors get talked about and debated over in the Indian media quite so much

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

England's dew karma

England's dew karma

You can’t do a sprinkler dance without some precipitation-related payback eventually

25-Feb-2013•Andrew Hughes

Why tinker with the DRS?

Why tinker with the DRS?

Duncan Fletcher, writing in the Guardian , says that needless adjustments to the Decision Review System have only confused players and fans, and could lead to system's downfall.

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Analysing the decision review system

Analysing the decision review system

The ICC’s Decision Review System has come in for some stick in the 2011 World Cup, particularly for one of the more complicated rules governing its use – the 2.5m rule

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

The game is better for technology

The game is better for technology

An editorial in the New Zealand Herald questions the absence of the UDRS in the ongoing New Zealand-Pakistan Test series and states that India's reluctance to use the UDRS will affect it at some stage.

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

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