Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara was on Sunday in no mood to implicate the umpires for the dodgy decisions they handed to Indian batsmen in the tri-series match in Dambulla and said India should have agreed to the use Decision Review System to have a level playing field.
Australia's cricket administrators are attempting to soften Indian opposition to the umpire decision referral system, starting with its use in the Test series between the two countries in October. Cricket Australia is pushing for the use of the system in the October series, with two Tests to be played in Mohali and Bangalore, as a precursor to the home Ashes series in which the UDRS will be used.
The International Cricket Council's controversial Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS), which is being opposed by the BCCI, will go into operation from Tuesday with the start of the Test series between New Zealand and Pakistan in Dunedin.
England coach Andy Flower on Tuesday expressed his unhappiness with the umpire's decision review system (UDRS) being trialled in the Test series with South Africa. England lost seven of their own reviewed decisions in the drawn first Test at Centurion and all-rounder Stuart Broad was seen remonstrating with the on-field umpires after being given out leg before wicket following a South Africa referral.
Recommendations from the ICC Cricket Committee concerning Umpire Decision Review System, bad light and slow over-rates were adopted on the first day of the ICC Board meeting at Lord's in London.
'Indian cricket is in the safe hands of excitingly talented cricketers. No team can afford to underestimate India. If they do, it is to their peril.'
Former president Ehsan Mani has backed the International Cricket Council's decision to persist with the Decision Review System, saying it has helped in reducing umpires' mistakes.
Prem Panicker, one of the finest cricket writers, on the ICC's Code of Conduct.
'Ravi Shastri told me he would go miles, and pay, to enjoy Vishy make 20 than to watch someone scoring an inelegant, laborious, 200.'
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