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India flex muscle in ICC meet, threaten pull-out over DRS - The Times of India
NEW DELHI: India has once again
threatened to pull out of any tour
in which the host country insists
on using the Decision Review
System, according to a report. According to a report in a sports
website, at the ICC executive
council meeting in Dubai BCCI
president N Srinivasan has shot
down a proposal in favour of a
policy change where the approval of the host country
would be enough to implement
the DRS. The report said that the England
and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)
chairman Giles Clarke was the
lone man who spoke in favour of a policy change regarding the implementation of
DRS. "Srinivasan's concerns are understood to still
centre on a belief that the technology could be
easily manipulated and is unreliable. It has been
learnt that he made the claim that India would
pull out of bilateral series if a system was in place
where the home side could insist on the DRS," the report said. "Though the DRS issue was not even listed on the
agenda, or in the post-meeting press release
dispatched, it was discussed at length in the
wake of a renewed push during the ICC chief
executives committee (CEC) meeting last month,
for universal implementation of the referral system. "At that meeting, held on December 4, every
member with the exception of India had backed
a change in the DRS implementation policy," the
report added. The existing playing conditions as laid down by
the ICC require the approval of both countries on
DRS during a bilateral series. But report said that the CEC recommended that
the issue should be resolved via a vote during
the executive board meeting. "In the end there was no vote as most of 13-man
strong board (10 Full Members plus three
Associates) failed to stand up to Srinivasan. Only
Clarke, who supported the CEC recommendation,
felt it warranted a discussion this week again,"
the report read.
NEW DELHI: India has once again
threatened to pull out of any tour
in which the host country insists
on using the Decision Review
System, according to a report. According to a report in a sports
website, at the ICC executive
council meeting in Dubai BCCI
president N Srinivasan has shot
down a proposal in favour of a
policy change where the approval of the host country
would be enough to implement
the DRS. The report said that the England
and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)
chairman Giles Clarke was the
lone man who spoke in favour of a policy change regarding the implementation of
DRS. "Srinivasan's concerns are understood to still
centre on a belief that the technology could be
easily manipulated and is unreliable. It has been
learnt that he made the claim that India would
pull out of bilateral series if a system was in place
where the home side could insist on the DRS," the report said. "Though the DRS issue was not even listed on the
agenda, or in the post-meeting press release
dispatched, it was discussed at length in the
wake of a renewed push during the ICC chief
executives committee (CEC) meeting last month,
for universal implementation of the referral system. "At that meeting, held on December 4, every
member with the exception of India had backed
a change in the DRS implementation policy," the
report added. The existing playing conditions as laid down by
the ICC require the approval of both countries on
DRS during a bilateral series. But report said that the CEC recommended that
the issue should be resolved via a vote during
the executive board meeting. "In the end there was no vote as most of 13-man
strong board (10 Full Members plus three
Associates) failed to stand up to Srinivasan. Only
Clarke, who supported the CEC recommendation,
felt it warranted a discussion this week again,"
the report read.
