Do you support the referral system or not??

@abhi333 (407)
India
March 6, 2009 1:46am CST
The poor umpiring decisions are becoming more and more these days. Sachin was given out wrongly thrice in Sri Lanka and it was Sehwag's turn today against NZ. referrals might have saved them. On the other hand some poor decisions were also made by the third umpire in the referrals during the last test between WI and England. so do you think referrals should be there or not?? and if yes what else can be done to improve them?? like it has been decided that the "Hot Spot" technology will be used in the next 2 tests between SA and AUS on the trial basis. do u think more technology should be used or not?
4 responses
@vishwaskg (514)
• India
7 Mar 09
Hi there... I believe that its best to have cricket with some limit of technology, what intrigues me is that they use technology for viewing wheteher the ball has passed beyond the ropes ,but there is a hue and a cry telling not to use technology since they want cricket to be more of human.If the ball passing through the rope can be analysed so much ,then the same should hold true for the doubtful decisions against the batsmen.I wouldn't support the referral system so much,but they should give the umpire some freedom to go upstairs when they are doubtful of a nick or a lbw. This would also put away the pressure on the umpire and also make batsmen safer to be on the crease. cheers
@amitavroy (4819)
• India
7 Mar 09
I believe in it every aspect has a negative and positive with it. Definitely the referral system has a lot of positive sites to it but I would like to discuss a few negatives about it on which vary their suspicions are throwing light. It is psychological that if you have a backup system that you will not be failed for the new tends to concentrate less and that is what is happening right now. The umpires are right now not ready to take any tights decisions because they feel that if they make a mistake it will create a mockery of them. And that is the reason why overall their concentration level is getting down which is resulting in bad decisions. But if they knew that there is no second option but them giving the decisions they would be concentrating hard so that they can get the best decisions out of the condition was top I know that no one is perfect and I do not expect an umpire to give the right decision every time. But if he is making too many mistakes then I guess there is a way to rectify him or maybe replace them with someone who is not making so many mistakes. But the biggest problem with referral system is that they tend to reduce the concentration level of the umpires and also it slows down the game of cricket and the system has done it already
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@jshekhar (1562)
• India
6 Mar 09
I fully support the referral system. It is a pleasant news that they would also use hot spot to aid the third umpire for referrals. Technology is right at our doorstep so why should we refuse to use it and let the players suffer for the human mistakes committed by the ground umpires? The hawk eye that has been in use for a long time now is not accurate enough, as it not consider the nature of bounce of the wicket, the swing in the air, etc. Thus, first of all we need to make our technology 100% accurate.
@abhi333 (407)
• India
6 Mar 09
ya i completely agree with you regarding the hawk-eye. it is not very dependable. but i think the snickometer and the hotspot must be used to aid the third umpire. both are very reliable technologies and most of the time batsmen know that whether they have nicked the ball or not.
• India
6 Mar 09
i think the hot spot technology is also not foolproof as it provides view from only two cameras or two angles but it could be better off than the referral system if it can be improved further.
@abhi333 (407)
• India
6 Mar 09
but i think that the hotspot technology is pretty good even by using only two cameras because it is using the infrared rays to measure the heat produced due to the friction between two objects at the point of contact. so the limitation of only 2 cameras is not a big one.