The UDRS issue

Richardson knows the system is a work in progress, with a deal of fine-tuning to be done. So here are some suggestions he might consider. First, the idea that there should be a time limit of, say, 15 seconds is not new but it needs reinforcing. In the series just gone, reviews generally took too long and the game stagnated. Secondly, every dismissal, even such as that in which Dale Steyn sent Jonathan Trott's off-stump cartwheeling, in Cape Town, should be checked. This takes seconds, would occur at most only 40 times out of a possible 2,700 and could be communicated almost immediately by a signal into an earpiece. That Kevin Pietersen, for example, was out in the first Test to a no-ball is a nonsense when set alongside the rigmarole over everything else.