With the new trail umpiring decision review system to take off from the Srilanka-India series, its going to be immense pressure on the on-field umpires and their credibility at stake. Its true that in a truly professional system there is no scope for any mistakes but if too-many decisions are against the on-field umpires then its going to be tough on them. Overall its a good and bold decision by the ICC to try this out and make sure that human error does not change the course of the match. If this trial is successful, there should not be any restriction on the number of claims (now it is restricted to 3) and i also feel the third umpire should not be used for the LBW decisions, it is just not possible for a electronic system to show the path of delivery, may me it can be used for the ball pitching out side the leg stump,off stump decisions but surely not for the path or to assess the height of the ball for the LBW, all that depends on the pitch. I am sure there will be lots of issues if they go ahead with the Hawk Eye for the LBW decisions.
It is also going to test the true leadership of the on fielding team captains as they are the ones who will make the call to request for review. There is going to be some team planning on who should make use of the option while the team is batting, over all its interesting times and lots of scope for discussions on decisions.
Australian bench strength has yet again proved that they are too good. Katich after two successive century is not sure of his place in the XI for their tour to India. Australia has time and again proved that they play the sport with lot of commitment and give their best in the big stage. As Ponting has nicely put it, they are not demolishing the opponents but grinding them to victory these days, as almost 6-7 players have left the international stage in the past 10-12 months. It will be good to see how they perform in the up coming series against India in India.Its good that BCCI and senior team management has come up with a camp for the Test only players like Lakshman, Dravid, Kumble etc ahead of the series against the Australians.
On the Euro-2008, Italy came good once again to beat France and moved ahead to the quarterfinals. France had to leave the tournament with the lose against Italy.
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Yes Vasu. You are right. With regard to the LBWs only the umpires will be in a right position to tell, coz they only can gauge the bounce of the pitch, the level of spin the bowler can give to the ball and all. But, there are some cases where the batsman edges the ball and still given out as LBW, in those cases this will become handy. But, this is sure to raise even more controversies than the normal decisions.
For the other decisions like bat-pad catch, whether the catch is grounded-or-not, caught behinds, these technologies need to be introduced. This will avoid some infamous incidents like the one happened in the latest Sydney test between India and Australia.
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