Dhoni hints at conspiracy against BCCI’s stance on DRS usage
The match could have gone India’s way had it not been for India’s reluctance to accept the Umpires Decision Review System (UDRS or DRS).
What Dhoni didn’t say then was that he was looking more at providing cover for his quick bowlers, with the unspoken faith in the spin duo of R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja to keep their ends relatively safe.
Bailey went on to score 112 off 120 balls and man-of-the-match Steve Smith hit 149 from 135 balls as the Australians easily ran down India s total, which was boosted by an unbeaten 171 by Rohit Sharma and captain Virat Kohli s 91. They played a few big shots but other than that I felt that was a time when they rotated extremely well. Also, being the left arm bowler, I think he has a slight advantage of the angle that goes away from the right hander batsmen.
“If you see the bowling department the fast bowlers did a very good job”. You have to make sure with the field restrictions that you don’t get hit in an area where you don’t have a fielder. Which means I feel if we had bowled slightly better we could have put more pressure on them.
“India are the ones that don’t want it, so they’ve got to live with these decisions”, Haddin told Sky Sports Radio on Wednesday.
“If you see the deviations in DRS, there are quite a few deviations, even the makers agree that there’s a bit of deviation that can happen”. “The fast bowlers bowled well and gave us a good start”.
While he was ready to admit that calls sometimes go your way, and sometimes the opponents, Dhoni opined that if a system is put in place it should be absolute and not “make the variables too big”.
All of the periods, when 100-110 is crossed by Rohit, he scores large and that is usually great.
“We’ll also need to observe the returning activities if you find stress on him from the start, when the batsmen are established, if he’s placed under some pressure within the first group legislation itself, then we’ll need to observe how he bowls. He batted very well and it’s important that after a good start he does well in the whole series and carries this form forward”. We’re able to have set more stress in it if we’d bowled somewhat better but which was false.
Bailey was given not out when the tourists appealed for a catch down the leg side from the Tasmanian’s first ball, but both Real Time Snicko and Hot Spot showed the ball had brushed the Tasmanian’s glove on the way through to wicketkeeper Dhoni.
Dhoni was asked directly in the post-match news conference whether his team is punished for not using the DRS and if umpires may look the other way on 50-50 calls.
“It could have [altered the course of the game], but at the same time we need to push the umpires to take the right decision”.
Reviews from the hot-spot technology showed that the ball flicked Bailey’s glove.
“It happens. You appeal, (sometimes) it goes in your favour, sometimes it doesn’t go in your favour”.
Television replays confirmed the contact between ball and glove, but with no DRS technology in place for any series involving India, the visitors were unable to challenge umpire Richard Kettleborough s decision of not out.
“DRS shouldn’t be umpires decision justification system”. It should be giving the right decision. For example, you take DRS and in an LBW decision, what changes everything is whether the LBW was given or not. “It has to be plain and simple”, he added.