Will Dalmiya say yes to DRS at ICC meet?
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Delhi: Jagmohan Dalmiya heads for London as the cricket control board’s stand-in chief for the International Cricket Council’s annual conference that gets under way on June 23.
Possibly the most important agenda on his plate will be a call on the Umpire Decision Review System, which India alone are left opposing. Almost everyone else has fallen in and the system is already in use at all ICC tournaments.
With Narayanswami Srinivasan have been forced to step aside till a two-member committee completes its inquiry into his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan, it is still open on which way India will go as the BCCI president has led opposition to the use of technology at the ICC almost single-handedly.
Dalmiya, who currently is in the hot seat, is said top be vacillating on the matter but indications are that India will continue its hard stance on the matter.
The BCCI has consistently opposed the use of DRS on the grounds that the technology is not reliable, but a couple of instances at the ongoing ICC Champions Trophy in England and Wales may have given them food for thought.
That, however, may not translate into an “Okay” at the London meeting as only recently, the Indian board threatened to pull out of the ICC’s Future Tours Programme that works in an eight-year cycle for the 10 Test-playing countries, the current one spanning the May 2012 to April 2120 period.
All this suggests that the ICC meting will see fireworks particularly if Dalmiya opts to go with the BCC’s stated position. The ICC has been pushing very hard for uniform implementation of DRS.
“The BCCI currently has a stand on DRS, so it will be unfair on my part to make any comments on this issue till I have a detailed look at the relevant documents. Once I have a look at the documents will I get a clearer picture,” Dalmiya was quoted as having said on the day.
In the event Dalmiya goes against the BCCI line howsoever unlikely that may be it could set the stage for confrontation at a delicate time at home.
While a section of the Board has been pushing for Srinivasan’s exit, it has largely been cowed down in public with former BCCI head Inderjit Singh Bindra of the Punjab Cricket Association being the lone voice pointing to the conflicts of interest when it came to the sidelined Board chief and asking him to quit the post.
What has really underlined India’s swing at the ICC is the fact that even though a decision can be ratified if seven full members back it, DRS still stays on the table with nine of the 10 full members ranged against the BCCI.
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