New Posts For Thread: DRS systemhttps://community.betfair.com/cricket/go/thread/view/94046/30005065/drs-systemFirstly I would like to congratulate England and Australia for setting up a brilliant match yesterday. The equivalent of a 5 set thriller in tennis. Also congratulations to Alistair Cook on using the DRS system better than Clarke, which was probablyYes. But the problem is, with such crappy umpiring, you are more likely to ask for a review. If you have no reviews left, and that happens, you still don't get the wicket.Whereas, if the 3rd umpire is involved, he picks up there is doubt, goes throhttps://community.betfair.com/cricket/go/thread/view/94046/30005065/drs-system?post_id=534099113#534099113Yes. But the problem is, with such crappy umpiring, you are more likely to ask for a review. If you have no reviews left, and that happens, you still don't get the wicket.Whereas, if the 3rd umpire is involved, he picks up there is doubt, goes throTue, 23 Jul 2013 07:08:08 -0500agreed.https://community.betfair.com/cricket/go/thread/view/94046/30005065/drs-system?post_id=534098579#534098579agreed.Tue, 23 Jul 2013 06:40:30 -0500I think DRS is pretty much spot on. Sure, there's a few controversies here and there but people have just forgotten how bad some decisions could be in years past.Look at this nonsense from 1998 as McGrath gets Inzaman stone dead in consecutive delivehttps://community.betfair.com/cricket/go/thread/view/94046/30005065/drs-system?post_id=534097103#534097103I think DRS is pretty much spot on. Sure, there's a few controversies here and there but people have just forgotten how bad some decisions could be in years past.Look at this nonsense from 1998 as McGrath gets Inzaman stone dead in consecutive deliveTue, 23 Jul 2013 04:52:15 -0500Not really. If it was in place that it needed an appeal to get upstairs checking, then more appeals means slower over rate, which means fielding teams fined...https://community.betfair.com/cricket/go/thread/view/94046/30005065/drs-system?post_id=534095881#534095881Not really. If it was in place that it needed an appeal to get upstairs checking, then more appeals means slower over rate, which means fielding teams fined...Tue, 23 Jul 2013 02:41:19 -0500OP has it pretty spot on I think. Reality is, there is no review called for on a lot of occassions by the players, yet the umpires go to the technology when they are unsure of something.How many times is there a wicket and they wait to check the no bhttps://community.betfair.com/cricket/go/thread/view/94046/30005065/drs-system?post_id=534095877#534095877OP has it pretty spot on I think. Reality is, there is no review called for on a lot of occassions by the players, yet the umpires go to the technology when they are unsure of something.How many times is there a wicket and they wait to check the no bTue, 23 Jul 2013 02:39:26 -0500big fan of drs. the worst thing about test cricket was matches being decided by obvious howlers. if captains choose to waste their right to protect themselves against that by querying marginal lbws or worse still when theyve actually edged one they ahttps://community.betfair.com/cricket/go/thread/view/94046/30005065/drs-system?post_id=534087369#534087369big fan of drs. the worst thing about test cricket was matches being decided by obvious howlers. if captains choose to waste their right to protect themselves against that by querying marginal lbws or worse still when theyve actually edged one they aMon, 22 Jul 2013 16:50:03 -0500The Aussies must be wishing DRS was never invented. Another terrible day for them. First Watson wasted one and then Rogers didnt use it when he should have because Watson had already wasted one then Hughes wasted the second one and they had yet againhttps://community.betfair.com/cricket/go/thread/view/94046/30005065/drs-system?post_id=534008399#534008399The Aussies must be wishing DRS was never invented. Another terrible day for them. First Watson wasted one and then Rogers didnt use it when he should have because Watson had already wasted one then Hughes wasted the second one and they had yet againFri, 19 Jul 2013 14:49:33 -0500are those the rules though fragmentswhen i read through them it didnt mention middles of balls etc..they have changed the rules to go with DRShttps://community.betfair.com/cricket/go/thread/view/94046/30005065/drs-system?post_id=533967611#533967611are those the rules though fragmentswhen i read through them it didnt mention middles of balls etc..they have changed the rules to go with DRSThu, 18 Jul 2013 04:57:40 -0500No way on earth should DRS be in the hands of the umpires. Haddin not thinking things through there at all. The system, at present, is very good imo.https://community.betfair.com/cricket/go/thread/view/94046/30005065/drs-system?post_id=533964459#533964459No way on earth should DRS be in the hands of the umpires. Haddin not thinking things through there at all. The system, at present, is very good imo.Wed, 17 Jul 2013 23:25:30 -0500I thought it's to allow for a slight inaccuracy in the hawk eye syestem. i.e it's not perfect.To put DRS in the hands of the umpires would kill the game. They would review every appeal therefore there would be more appeals.I think DRS adds a new dimehttps://community.betfair.com/cricket/go/thread/view/94046/30005065/drs-system?post_id=533954449#533954449I thought it's to allow for a slight inaccuracy in the hawk eye syestem. i.e it's not perfect.To put DRS in the hands of the umpires would kill the game. They would review every appeal therefore there would be more appeals.I think DRS adds a new dimeWed, 17 Jul 2013 14:09:32 -0500