The Ranji Trophy final clash is ongoing between the two dominating teams Mumbai and Madhya Pradesh. Reports suggest that players and some cricket analysts believe in the crowd’s voice to bring up the Decision Review System – DRS in the domestic league of Ranji Trophy.
The demands were that at least the final game of the prestigious domestic league should be played with DRS opportunities but the officials opposed with a reply.
“It’s an expensive exercise to use the DRS. The costs shoot up. How does it matter if there’s no DRS in the final. It’s time we trusted the umpires. India’s two best umpires (KN Ananthapadmanabhan and Virender Sharma) are officiating in this game. And what’s the result? If you use it in the final, you will want to introduce it in the league stage of the Ranji Trophy too,” a former India player told TOI.
BCCI officials stated that inventing DRS is not an easy and cheap exercise as it requires lot of money which the board cannot afford in the domestic league. BCCI also shows the importance of umpires and asks the offenders to respect the umpire’s call in the domestic league atleast.
“The rigging (wiring) and derigging of all the equipment will be extremely costly. HawkEye means extra cameras are needed. Ranji is done with limited equipment. The argument will then be that why not for all televised games. Look, you can’t have a half-baked DRS. The last time, it was used for limited replays to see if there’s an edge or not. You can’t use the ball trajectory – a critical element of DRS,” a source familiar with the situation stated
