The use of the Decision Review System (DRS) for the Bangladesh-West Indies series has been shelved, according to the Bangladesh Cricket Board.
BCB media chairman Jalal Yunus said yesterday that according to the board’s agreement with Nimbus, the facilities for DRS use are not enough.
“It would be difficult to use DRS given our agreement with Nimbus,” said Yunus.
“The replays for DRS won’t be clear. We have consulted with the ICC and they have also agreed with the issue,” he added.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) in its annual conference in June had agreed to make the DRS mandatory for all Tests and ODIs, subject to commercial considerations. Among the three options regarding use of DRS, one allows the host board to pass up on technology with the ICC’s consent apart from following the minimum and enhanced standard options that force the use of the expensive Hawkeye.
At first the BCB considered following the minimum standard but their broadcaster Nimbus could only fulfil three requirements — slow motion, super slow motion and audio vision on stumps — out of five. Hot Spot and Ultra slow motion are the other technologies required for the minimum standard.
During the recently concluded Sri Lanka-Australia series, the broadcasters used three of those and still used the DRS.
In the course of the Tigers’ contract with Nimbus (which was signed in 2006), the DRS hasn’t been used simply because the advent of the new hi-tech stipulation came into use very recently.
Bangladesh will play two Tests, three ODIs and a Twenty20 international against the West Indies this month.
-With The Daily Star input
