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For years, the basic tenet of cricket, a sport circulated as a symbol of English fairplay and discipline, was that the umpire is always right; even when he is wrong. Once he had made a decision, all the batsman could do was tuck his bat under his shoulder and walk, and all a bowler could do was return to his bowling mark to try again. The lesser the reaction, the better the cricketer. Umpires were selected for their equanimity, honesty, and their knowledge of the game. Everyone knew that the umpire, being only human, does get it wrong sometimes. But the important thing to understand was that the intention behind giving the umpire this enormous, unilateral power, was good. Someone’s decision had to be final; otherwise there would be anarchy. Today, 134 years after the first Test match, and 73 years after the first televised match (second Ashes Test at Lord’s on June 24, 1938, covered by the BBC), there are ways to tell – immediately, and in several cases, conclusively – when the umpire makes a mistake. So should cricket change one of its basic tenets to make room from a system that goes over the umpire’s final decision, and has the power to either uphold or overrule it? The answer to that question is fairly simple. Even the BCCI, in its latest press release, has expressed “its willingness to embrace technology, for the betterment of the game”. But the debate over the Umpires’ Decision Review System, which has been playing out for the last three years and has reached a head before India prepares to travel to England, has not been simple one. Somewhere along the line, the most important ingredient behind a rule change – good intentions – was overtaken by diffidence, and a bully cricket board adamant on getting its way. India’s objection hinged around the Hawk-Eye ball-tracking technology. It was a grouse based on mental roadblocks erected when Ajantha Mendis got review after review to go his way in Sri Lanka in 2008. Frustrated at not being able to read Mendis, and upset at how much Hawk-Eye loved him, Dhoni’s team threw a tantrum that they’ve never bothered to qualify, or convert into a logical argument. To win a debate you need to quote incidents, allude to instances, back your points with facts.

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