Sachin Tendulkar names the one rule he wants changed in cricket

NEW DELHI: India’s cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar has once again spoken about the DRS rule, saying he would scrap the Umpire’s Call and explained why he believes it no longer serves the game. Cricket has often been considered a complex sport, and the Decision Review System (DRS), introduced in 2009, added another layer of debate with the phrase “Umpire’s Call” becoming a regular talking point.

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Over the years, while some have backed the rule, many have raised concerns. Tendulkar, who has previously criticised it, reiterated his view."I would change the DRS rule on the Umpire's call. Players have chosen to go upstairs because they were unhappy with the on-field umpire's call. Hence, there should be no option to go back to that call. Just like how players have bad patches, umpires, too, have bad patches. Technology even when inaccurate will be consistently inaccurate," he said during an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit.The Umpire’s Call is used when teams challenge an on-field decision but technology remains inconclusive, leaving the original call intact. In LBW reviews, if 1–50% of the ball is shown hitting the stumps (excluding bails), the umpire’s original verdict stands.Tendulkar, famously known as the ‘Master Blaster’, dominated world cricket from 1989 to 2013, amassing 34,357 runs in 664 international matches at an average of 48.52. He remains the highest run-scorer in international cricket, with 100 centuries and 164 fifties — the only player with a “century of centuries.”