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.

None of this will please England, and maybe Dhoni, shrewdly in his mind, sees it that way, for one player beyond all has reaped most consistent benefit from it – Graeme Swann ... Swann gorges himself on the readiness of umpires to give lbws where once they were reluctant. Tracking has changed their perception of what is permissible. Almost 30% of 138 wickets have come from lbw. With left-handers alone it is beyond that.

Here is the rub, though. Umpires will still give Swann his lbws because that is how they think. But Dhoni's intransigence on this matter means that his team will have no recourse to challenge that. It is something he might regret.