Even a contest between South Africa and India does not have the same old feeling as that of India and the subject matter of the Umpire Decision Review System.
mahendra singh dhoni in net practice
The BCCI has made it clear there will be no UDRS for the India New Zealand series. This seem ironical given that both, India and Australia were at the receiving end of some seriously erroneous decisions during the Border Gavaskar Trophy.
Now the tables will turn in that South Africa will play hosts and India will be the visitors and as per ICC norms, the UDRS will become effective for a series if the host nation is in favour of it and is able to convince the visitors, something Sri Lanka failed to do against India and were left complaining about.
Can South Africa do what Sri Lanka could not? The proposition, at face value, seems almost impossible because not only is the BCCI wary of the UDRS but also, team India are led vociferously by the Indian captain, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, whose resistance to the system is about it not being 100 per cent accurate while Sachin Tendulkar has been equally vocal that better technology needed to be adopted. However, the South African captain, Graeme Smith, leads the other school of thought that unless the system is put in operation, its flaws cannot truly be tested or refined.
Once again, off field drama dominates before the series gets underway. Will India get its way once again? Perhaps that is something that Cricket South Africa will have to weigh up in terms of clout as against the might of the BCCI!
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