Former England captain Michael Vaughan said cameras should be placed on Decision Review System (DRS) operators in order to provide ‘transparency,’ after Joe Root’s dismissal on Day 3 of the fourth Test has caused a stir.
“I’m not saying anyone is cheating,” said Vaughan on Test match Special Podcast.
“I’m trying to give an answer for when a decision is made and we all disagree with it. If the person on Hawk-Eye is filmed it puts the noise to bed.”
Umpires call has been criticised by the England captain Ben Stokes after the Rajkot Test. However, in Ranchi, England were benefitted from four ‘umpire’s call’ decisions during India’s first innings and even Stokes was survived by the decision in England’s second innings.
“You just want something that is consistent,” Stokes had told BBC Sport.
“Umpire’s call, personally I think we should just get rid of it. If it’s hitting the stumps, it’s hitting the stumps, then it’s a level playing field.
“I can understand supporters on both sides being frustrated with the decisions that have been made. It doesn’t look like Hawk-Eye is having a great series,” said Vaughan.
“The most important operators of decisions now are in the trucks. We need to have a camera in the truck to give an understanding of how it all comes to that decision.
“All I want is full transparency. If it takes the International Cricket Council employing someone to put in the trucks for integrity, they have to do that as well.”
“For the game in general, for people watching, we need to see who is operating, because the person operating the technology is more important than the umpires,” he added.
Joe Root plays a shot on the first day of the fourth IND vs ENG Test in Ranchi. (AP Photo)
Former England bowler Steven Finn has backed umpire’s decision. He explained on TNT Sports: “From the naked eye, when you’re watching the delivery, you think that pitched outside leg and all your cricketing intuition sort of kicks in, and it’s like it can’t have pitched in line with the stumps and ended up where it did.
“There’s no umpires call on where the ball pitches so, when the projection comes through and the DRS has pulled its numbers into his computer on the initial contact with the pitch, there’s no contention about where that has pitched as a result of the technology.
“Where that ball pitches, according to the technology that is meant to be very accurate, they’re saying that what it looks like is 51 per cent of that ball is pitching within the outside line of the stump and therefore it’s out.”
A rearguard effort from Dhruv Jurel and a five-wicket haul by Ravichandran Ashwin put India back in the fourth Test against England on Sunday’s day three, as they chase 192 for a series win.
India reached 40-0 at stumps, needing another 152 in Ranchi to win their third straight match and the five-Test series. Captain Rohit Sharma was unbeaten on 24, with Yashasvi Jaiswal on 16.
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