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.
Akhila Ranganna
25-Feb-2013
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.
Unfortunately, India, the power-broker of the modern game, was far less canny in its one attempt at using the system, in a series in Sri Lanka in 2008. All but one of its referral attempts in three tests failed. The Sri Lankans won 11 of their referrals. But rather than learn from this, the Indians have chosen to oppose the system, thereby placing it in limbo
Akhila Ranganna is assistant editor (Audio) at ESPNcricinfo