Senior spinner Ravichandran Ashwin lauded BCCI’s transfer to have DRS within the ongoing Duleep Trophy, saying it’s going to assist an upcoming batter to make essential technical tweaks earlier than his potential initiation into worldwide cricket.
Ashwin was pinning his argument on the leg earlier than dismissal of India D batsman Ricky Bhui in opposition to India C left-arm spinner Manav Suthar within the Anantapur-leg of Duleep Trophy on Friday night.
Bhui was batting on 44 and appeared fluent however he stretched ahead to play a defensive prod, and obtained pinged on his pads.
The on-field umpire initially didn’t give him out because the bowler was compelled to resort to the Resolution Evaluate System, which favoured the bowler’s plea for a leg earlier than dismissal.
“DRS for home cricket isn’t just for the best selections to be made. Ricky Bhuvi’s (Bhui) dismissal final night in opposition to Manav Suthar is a basic case of a batter who will get away with this system 10/10 occasions in FC cricket,” Ashwin wrote on his official X deal with.
“This was not a defective method pre DRS however now it’s. Again within the day batters got not out simply because they managed to get on the entrance foot,” he added.
Ashwin’s remark was spot on as a result of in earlier days, umpires hardly gave a batter out if he had plonked his entrance foot ahead, utilizing pad as the primary line of defence whereas tucking the bat behind the pads.
In pre-DRS days, the previous West Indian batter Jimmy Adams employed this system fairly routinely to flee from lbw, a lot that he obtained the moniker — ‘Padams”.
However now, the bowlers have the choice of leaning on DRS to overturn the on-field choice, and the batters should regulate their model of play accordingly early of their profession.
Ashwin alluded to that.
“Now, retaining your bat behind the pad will be deadly, think about somebody making the climb to worldwide cricket with out getting this expertise Ricky obtained yesterday.
“He may very effectively take a complete Check collection to know what he must work on and his profession may effectively be over,” he wrote.
Nevertheless, the DRS, first launched within the home circuit through the 2019-20 season, is but to be absolutely applied in home matches.
It’s nonetheless restricted to big-ticket home matches resembling Ranji Trophy semifinals and finals.
Initially, the DRS got here with out the UltraEdge characteristic and it was later added to the system through the 2022-23 home season, albeit just for the ultimate.
However the full model of the DRS is obtainable for the continued Duleep Trophy matches in Bengaluru and Anantapur.
Revealed – September 07, 2024 02:10 pm IST
