Champions Trophy: India gets DRS right; Australia fails at this too

The Decision Review system may be optional in Tests, but when it comes to ICC tournaments, there is no getting around it. In the Champions Trophy, the use of the DRS threw up some interesting results. Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s dislike of the system is well known, but India had all three of their reviews upheld. That the majority of the reviews that were challenged up until the semi final stage - 16 of 27 were not reversed - are testimony that the umpires tend to get things right. Where the DRS is useful is those marginal decisions where there might have been a faint nick or the umpire has to use his judgement about where the ball pitched. [caption id=“attachment_907677” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Ravindra Jadeja benefitted from an overturned decision. AP[/caption] Following is the break-up of DRS’s for batting and fielding sides: Following is a country-wise break-up of DRS. India, who has steadfastly resisted the DRS, is the only country to get all their reviews right, while New Zealand and Australia got all their reviews wrong. Following is an umpire-wise break-up of reviews. Ian Gould, Bruce Oxenford and Steve Davis were spot on as none of their decisions were reversed, while Richard Kettleborough had to suffer the ignominy of seeing all of his decisions reversed. Aleem Dar – the recipient of ICC’s best umpire award on many occasions – had a mixed tournament as half of his decisions were reversed. Nigel Llong was the only umpire whose decision’s weren’t challenged.