Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Anurag Thakur has said that India can agree to the Decision Review System (DRS) in matches provided the ‘Hawk-Eye’ isn’t used to review leg-before-wicket (lbw) decisions."You can have some and leave (Hawk-Eye)," Thakur told ESPNcricinfo. "If that comes as an option, we can look into that."
Thakur was also questioned if the board would also agree with visual aids such as Hot Spot and real-time Snicko in addition to the standard camera angles, and he nodded in favour of them. One of the prime reasons why BCCI does not agree with the Hawk-Eye is because Thakur believes it is not "100% foolproof".
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The International Cricket Council (ICC) had ordered a group of MIT researchers to do a study on the various DRS mechanism and make a report on them. Current India team head coach Anil Kumble, who also heads the ICC cricket committee was involved in the process. But Thakur said the BCCI did not find anything substantial regarding the Hawk-Eye’s predictive qualities. However, he also said the cricket governing body is open to discussions about the other DRS parts.
"I had raised the same question at that time also, whether it is 100% foolproof? No. Whether changes are required? Yes. When can it be done? MIT was supposed to give a report but they themselves are not much confident that it could be 100% foolproof," Thakur said."Our only issue is whether a technology which is not 100% foolproof, shall we agree that error of judgement is equal with standing umpire and with the technology available? So that is the call we have to take."
The BCCI had suggested the idea of a scaled-down DRS system just before the Indian Premier League (IPL) season this year, but it was neglected then. But Thakur believes the same thing can be worked upon and used in domestic or international games in the future if the other elements of the system work fine.
"I had said earlier also that you can have it partially without the lbw decisions, only for the rest of the decisions, Hawk-Eye and the rest of the stuff," Thakur said. "But we need to ask ourselves if a machine is making the same error which a human is making, what are we getting out of it?"
This is not the first time BCCI has rejected the Hawk-Eye, a few days back they also spoke against the proposed two-tier system in Test matches.
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