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Starc questioned why the same technology was not used globally, admitting that the inefficiency in making the right decisions in the ongoing Ashes series was frustrating. (AP Photo)
Australian pacer Mitchell Starc has called for the International Cricket Council (ICC) to introduce a uniform Decision Review System (DRS) around the world and pay for the technology, as well. The 35-year-old questioned why the same technology was not used globally, admitting that the inefficiency in making the right decisions in the ongoing Ashes series was frustrating.
England wicketkeeper batter Jamie Smith was part of two contentious DRS appeals during the third Ashes Test match at Adelaide Oval. After he received a reprieve the first time, Starc was heard saying on the stump mic that Snicko needed to be sacked.
“I’m sure it’s frustrating for everyone, viewers, officials, broadcasters, no doubt.”.
“One thing I will say … I’m only going to speak for myself here, the officials use it, right? So why doesn’t the ICC pay for it? And why is it not just one [provider] across the board? Why don’t we use the same technology in all different series, that’s going to perhaps create less confusion, less frustration? So that’s where I’ll leave that,” Starc said.
Former England captain Michael Vaughan had said during the Adelaide Test that cricket’s governing body should bring the best technology available and pay for it.
“It is a shocker. You can clearly see now that the players have lost trust in it. The umpires out in the middle. I just want them to make decisions. They have lost faith. I have lost faith in the Snicko system.”
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“The ICC needs to look at themselves in the mirror because who pays for this? The host broadcasters are not going to pay for the best technology. They pay so much money for the rights. The home board is not going to pay because they are going, ‘Wait a minute, we need to get some more cash. We got so much money to spend across the whole game in whichever country’. The ICC should be paying for whatever the best technology is,” Vaughan said on BBC.
DRS was first introduced in international cricket during a three-match Test series between India and Sri Lanka in 2008. The objective behind using the technology was to eliminate the clear and obvious howler from the game.
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