Independent research that may have been crucial in convincing the International Cricket Council (ICC) Executive Board to approve mandatory use of the Decision Review System (DRS) was not shown during its meeting in Kuala Lumpur last month, according to ESPNcricinfo.
The research on ball-tracking, which could have tilted the body into making its usage compulsory, was left off the agenda, said Cricket Australia (CA) Chairman Wally Edwards. The ICC will send a mission to show the research done by Dr Ed Rosten, an expert in computer vision technology, to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) – the strongest opponents and critics of the DRS.
Edwards, meanwhile, said that Rosten’s research could have convinced the member boards to accept the mandatory use of the DRS.
“The ICC had got some independent research done on the accuracy and all those issues,” said Edwards. “They didn’t present that information to the board. India have agreed and the boards have agreed for ICC management to go to India and take all the information, presentations, technical support and talk to them over there. India are willing to look at it, but they’re sceptical, and others are too - it’s not just India. I think it is part of the game for the future, but it’s a good time to review.”
The accuracy of the DRS was endorsed by both the ICC Cricket Committee and chief executives committee, with Rosten’s research a critical part of winning their approval.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 10th, 2012.
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Its not long you see ICC Headoffice moving to India. They are no more regulators of games but a group of pple financed by BCCI and they can go to any extent to save their jobs.