0DRS ٹیکنالوجی آگ کے تحت کیوں آ رہی ہے?

میں نے حقیقت میں اس مضمون کی خاکہ شروع کردی 2 ہفتوں پہلے. تب سے میں بیرون ملک ہوں, جب کہ ڈی آر ایس کی تنقیدوں کو ابھی زور ملا ہے۔ مجھ سے کوئی باڑ نہیں بیٹھے گی - میں DRS نظام کا بہت بڑا پرستار ہوں, اور میں نے ان ساری تنقیدوں سے نمٹنے کا ارادہ کیا ہے جو میں نے سنا ہے اور کرکٹ میں ٹکنالوجی کے استعمال کے لئے ٹھوس مقدمہ پیش کیا.

Let’s start by being clear — there have been some ter­rible DRS decisions this sum­mer in Eng­land, all of which are due cri­ti­cism. How­ever, there is a clear case of con­firm­a­tion bias going on with some com­ment­at­ors and pun­dits, who notice every time the DRS sys­tem fails, but aren’t noti­cing the large major­ity of cases where it is work­ing exactly as it should do. Fur­ther — most of the ter­rible decisions have been just that — ter­rible decisions, by the 3^RD umpire, and not a fault with tech­no­logy. There has also been at least one case where the rules have been absurd. The tech­no­logy can­’t take the blame for fail­ings of 3^RD umpires and the rules of the game. How many “mis­takes” has the tech­no­logy made?  Argu­ably one — where Sky failed to have a Hot­Spot cam­era avail­able as they were show­ing a replay. Again though — I would argue this is a fail­ure of Sky to use the tech­no­logy prop­erly — or rather a poor decision by a TV edit­or or pro­du­cer — in oth­er words — a human.

تو, the tech­no­logy itself is excel­lent and works very well, but the sys­tem as a whole is some­times fail­ing. It also adds to the enter­tain­ment and excite­ment of the game. Rather than high­light­ing its weak points to gen­er­ate a con­tro­versy (جس میں میڈیا محبت, اس وجہ سے کیوں وہ یہ کر رہے ہیں!) we should ask if is there any­thing that can be done to improve the sys­tem as a whole?  The answer is of course there is…

• The HawkEye ball track­er is 99.9% accur­ate — so reduce the “umpires call” error mar­gin — so there are far less umpire’s calls.
• ایک ٹیم کے جائزے تو, and is unsuc­cess­ful because it is giv­en “umpires call” the team should not lose a review.
• Whenev­er a review is used, it should auto­mat­ic­ally be used to check all reas­ons for being out or not out. So even if a play­er is giv­en out caught, and they are actu­ally ایل بی ڈبلیو, وہ اب بھی باہر ہیں.
• Con­trol of the tech­no­logy should not be man­aged by a TV com­pany, لیکن زمین کی طرف سے ملازم کسی کی طرف سے, آئی سی سی یا میزبان ایسوسی ایشن.
• Snicko and Hot­spot should be used togeth­er — clear evid­ence with either is suf­fi­cient to make a decision, if the evid­ence is incon­clus­ive the decision stays with the onfield umpire.
• The 3^RD umpire should be provided with a large high qual­ity screen, fed from a high speed high res­ol­u­tion cam­era for run out/stumped decisions.
• All 3^RD umpire decisions should be explained when the replay is shown on the big screen. Either via text on the screen or via the sta­di­um PA sys­tem. This is already done in text form when the ball track­er is used.
• The onfield umpires should be able to call for a review them­selves of any­thing at any time.

In addi­tion to these changes, all ICC umpires should be giv­en some addi­tion­al train­ing on the use of DRS, a sug­ges­tion made by John Hold­er.

The only dif­fi­cult issue not resolved by these changes is the issue of bat tape redu­cing the util­ity of Hot­Spot. The use of Snicko will par­tially alle­vi­ate the prob­lem, but it is likely some nicks will remain undetec­ted. I would argue that even if some go undetec­ted, the use of tech­no­logy will pick up more nicks than not using tech­no­logy, and although not every decision will be cor­rect, more decisions will be cor­rect than without tech­no­logy. This can only be a good thing.