Mixed reactions on "mandatory" DRS

The cricket fraternity has not met with any unanimity with UDRS being made compulsory despite opposition from the BCCI.

Alastair Cook
England one-day captain Alastair Cook has backed the mandatory use of the Decision Review System in international cricket.
The International Cricket Council's chief executives' committee met today in Hong Kong and unanimously agreed to recommend all Tests and one-day internationals are played with DRS, albeit modified so as not to automatically include ball-tracking technology such as HawkEye.
While infra-red cameras, like Hot Spot, and audio tracking equipment are now likely to become compulsory standards, the Board of Control for Cricket in India have been vocal doubters of predictive ball-tracking.
Teams will still be allowed to agree to use those systems but today's proposal means they are not part of the compulsory package.
Speaking ahead of his debut as England's permanent one-day captain, Cook showed his support for technology in the game.
"I believe DRS helps get more right decisions, which is the most important thing," he said.
"What we need is players getting the right decisions, whether they are in or out, and that is the end of the matter.
"I think technology to get those decisions right is the best way forward and we need as much available as we can to get the right decisions."
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"Personally I feel technology has to come in," he said.
"I feel cricketers and umpires might make mistakes. We are all human, so it has to come in to a certain extent."
England's Test series against India later this summer is now expected to feature the modified version of DRS recommended by the CEC, where it was previously likely to be absent.
Stephen Fleming
"This is a compromise formula by the ICC since all countries were not totally convinced with the technology. Some aspects of the technology are not acceptable in current form so the ICC had to make some compromise. The technology is there to get rid of the poor decisions and we have to make sure that it is really done," Fleming was quoted by an agency.
Rajiv Shukla, BCCI
"BCCI stand is nothing new on DRS. The system is not acceptable in its present form. We have always maintained that we do not have any problem with Hot Spot and Snickometer," Shukla said.
"The BCCI secretary (N Srinivasan) and president (Shashank Manohar) has made it clear in the ICC meeting in Hong Kong that unlese these two things are added, it is not acceptable to us in bilateral series and the ICC has also supported out stand.

"In international tournaments conducted by ICC, the UDRS system is already there and BCCI has accepeted it. But in bilateral series the decision should be left to the two playing nations," he added.