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MUMBAI: The Indian cricket board said Monday it would withdraw support for the umpire decision review system, despite having agreed to its conditional use earlier this year.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India's new president Narainswamy Srinivasan said the BCCI had changed its mind on the use of Hot Spot technology, which determines contact using infra-red cameras, after some controversial decisions on India's tour of England.
India had earlier opposed the use of ball-tracking technology, but agreed to Hot Spot's use during the International Cricket Council's annual conference in Hong Kong in July.
''At the time, we were under the impression that Hot Spot was very good,'' Srinivasan told reporters Monday. ''It is not necessary for me to dwell on the accuracy of Hot Spot, it was there for everybody to see.
''We want to revisit it because we feel that Hot Spot is insufficient. We do not wish to use the DRS in its present form, even in its minimum standard.''
India has long been a critic of DRS, a system that gives teams a chance to appeal against umpires' decisions using television replays, with captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni repeatedly questioning its effectiveness during this year's World Cup in India.
