NEW DELHI: The upcoming Test series between India and England starting November 9 inRajkot+ has gathered further interest owing to a few factors over the past ten-odd days. But beyond the anticipation of whether India's spinners can weave further webs around an England team that was embarrassingly bowled out inside one session of a Test in Bangladesh, and if can lead this team past the longest unbeaten streak at home (20 Tests) and how the will continue to cope with the constantly pressure from the Justice Lodha Panel for its many deficiencies, there is the pertinent issue of the Decision Review System (DRS+ ).ALSO READ:: A brief Test history. Because this will be the first time since 2013 that an Indian cricket team will play with the DRS, and only the second Test series since the technology was trailed in 2008 that India will use the full system (in England in 2011, was used but lbws were not part of it). Anyone who has followed international cricket closely for the past eight years will now acutely well that the game has been played in two halves: with the DRS used across all series expect bilateral involving India.ALSO READ:TheBCCI+ has been long-time objectors of the usage of this technology since it was first implemented in a Test series between India and Sri Lanka in the summer of 2008.
The Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS or DRS) is a technology-based system used in cricket to assist the match officials with their decision-making. On-field umpires may choose to consult with the third umpire (known as an Umpire Review), and players may request that the third umpire consider a decision of the on-field umpires (known as a Player Review).
Back then, the players appeared wary of the DRS and all doubts and concerns were massively compounded after India's players misused it during the loss to Sri Lanka, in particular against the wily spin of Muttiah Muralitharan and a rookie Ajantha Mendis. India did get some bad calls, but that they made just a solitary successful review out of 21 attempts compared to Sri Lanka's 11 out of 27, paints a deeper picture.Having been in Sri Lanka during this series, I was witness first-hand to both India's misuse of the DRS as well as the technology's rawness and some contentious decisions. It wasn't pretty, but India's strong resistance was not entirely accurate.The DRS has not been used in India since the 2011 World Cup, which India won. During it, the skipper MS Dhoni's views, as well as that of the seniors, did not change even though was the beneficiary during his plucky 85 against Pakistan in the semi-final.The upcoming India v England Test series will not, at least for the time being, implement HotSpot, the heat-based technology used to detect edges, or Real-time Snicko or Ultra Edge, which are both sound and video-centric technologies. The BCCI was keen to use HotSpot but since logistical matters did not allow this, we will see the DRS in its aforementioned form.So what's changed?
And why is the BCCI now warming to the 's intentions to make the DRS a standard for all teams across all series?One, the long-running trial of the accuracy of DRS's various technologies, undertaken by scientists at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology and subsequent successful results, appears to have eased the BCCI's concerns.Two,Anil Kumble's+ influence. Accordingly, to the ICC's general manager of cricket affairs Geoff Allardice, India's coach was a driving force in convincing the BCCI to use the DRS in the England series. Allardice stressed on Kumble's presence as chairman of the which looked at cricket's rules and regulations across a three-odd year period, during which the game's governing body focused on getting positive results in terms of testing technologies. Kumble has been a backer of the DRS, according to Allardice, and that helped get the BCCI on board with the ICC's goal to make the technology consistent across series.
Snickometer’s usage has been vastly reducedWith technology taking over every aspect of life, it was only a matter of time before it is utilised to the advantage of sports. Technology in sport is used with an objective to eliminate human errors that may have earlier affected the course of the game drastically. The Decision Review System was introduced in cricket, to give the players an opportunity to review such errors from the on-field umpire.The sequence of a typical DRS review involves checking for the front foot no-ball, bat edge detection and then ball tracking in the case of lbw appeals. The on-field umpire indicates the original decision and refers it to the third umpire, who makes uses of the available DRS tools before reaching a conclusion that may or may not stand by the on-field umpire’s call.
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‘Available DRS tools’ is the keyword here, because the tools available to review a decision, at the moment, vary from series to series.Though the ICC has been advocating uniform application of the DRS in all international cricket played across the globe, hosting boards, especially the poorer among them, are often unable to afford the costs of hiring DRS technology and either choose to use it in parts or opt out fully.Nevertheless, even when DRS is not involved, these tools are often employed by broadcasters to bring vivid analysis of these moments in the game to its followers. This is especially the case when it’s a close call to make, with more than one genuine sound - bat hitting the ground, for example - and timing of each sound to be distinguished to determine the sound coinciding with the ball passing the bat. And, when there’s daylight between bat and ball, the graph stays undisturbed.Although it was used earlier in UDRS, unlike Hawk Eye and Hot Spot, it is currently not used to that extent.This is because, while the cost involved is the least – it requires the stump mic and camera only – the evidence obtained can be inconclusive and prone to dubious decision-making, and in recent years, more comprehensive and accurate technologies have taken its place.Hot Spot. Hot Spot technologyHot Spot is a more accurate solution to detecting edges than the Snickometer as it is not a sound-based edge detection system. It was invented by French scientist Nicholas Bion and was first used in Australia on the Channel 9 network. Two cameras placed on opposite sides of the ground record the visuals and yield infra-red images. The principle behind the Hot Spot technology is that contact between bat and ball creates friction and in turn a localised increase in temperature, which appears as a bright spot in the infra-red image.The advantage of Hot Spot over Snicko is, as opposed to the latter, Hot Spot clearly indicates the area that contacts the ball - the bright spot - whereas a sound and a spike on the Snicko graph could be anything between bat-ball, pad-ball or bat and pad.The downside is that it is the most expensive technology in the DRS package, making its use in all matches practically difficult.
Most cricket boards choose to not include Hot Spot in their DRS package due to this reason.because the required equipment could not be brought to India, by the time a late decision was made by the BCCI to trial DRS in this series.Ultra EdgeThe 'Ultra Edge' is Hawk Eye's upgraded version of the Snickometer for edge detection which was recently approved for use as part of the DRS package. A look at the working of hawk-eyeThe Hawk-eye is a multi-sport ball tracking technology invented by Dr Paul Hawkins and is used in sports such as tennis, football and cricket - among many others.
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