The International Cricket Council's chief executives' committee unanimously agreed at its Hong Kong conference to make DRS mandatory in all international Tests and one-day matches, India's cricket authorities announced.
"The BCCI has always expressed its willingness to embrace technology, for the betterment of the game," said Narayanaswami Srinivasan, the president-elect of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, in a statement.
The ground-breaking deal means that India will, for the first time, agree to using the DRS in a Test series when they tour England from July.
But Srinivasan added: "However, the current (Hawkeye) ball-tracking technology, on which the DRS system is based, is not acceptable to the board.
"The BCCI is agreeable to the use of technology in decision-making, which will include infra-red cameras and audio-tracking devices.
"The BCCI's view was supported at the ongoing ICC CEC meeting in Hong Kong."
Hot Spot, the "thermal imaging" technology now available and made mandatory in the DRS, will mostly be used for close catches and edges.
But the committee decided that the use of Hawkeye, which tracks the trajectory of the delivery, would continue to depend on agreement between both teams in any match.
LBW decisions will continue to be governed by the on-field umpires.
Under the agreement, teams will be allowed to make one incorrect challenge to an on-field umpire's decision before all their referrals for that innings are used up.
A two-challenge system, broadly accepted by most of cricket's leading nations, was in use at the recent World Cup in the sub-continent, which India won.
The BCCI had questioned the accuracy of the technology involved in the DRS and Monday's deal marks a significant concession from the world champions, who have been opposed almost from the moment of the system's inception in 2009.
- AFP
Tags: sport, cricket, india First posted June 27, 2011 21:35:00
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