Double Standards Review

The MCG Test had enough incidents to suggest that supporting or opposing DRS is far from a black-and-white decision. Greg Baum of the Age writes that India's rejection of the system is stubborn, even contrary, but it is not without justification.

In a short time, the DRS has come to be accepted as infallible. This fits a tendency in all walks of life to devolve responsibility, if possible, to inanimate devices. Fans dwell on it. For players, to walk or not to walk is no longer an ethical issue; the technology will decide. Umpires yield to technology, just to be safe. Two of the effects of the DRS are to show that umpires mostly are right and, at the same time, to shake their confidence.