Why the BCB should use DRS

[kalpurush]

Bangladesh is often blamed for not winning a "test match" since her debut in test cricket! Or, you could say not winning against the "elite" cricket nations!!

Why tigers failed to do so?

I could list tens of reasons, but I am not after those. Instead, I will focus on one reason and that is DRS (Umpire Decision Review System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).

Why only DRS?

The answer lies here Bad Umpiring is killing us!

I know we aren't playing great test cricket, but we are playing good test cricket lately, say for the last three-four years, but failed to bring out any winning result only due to bad umpiring. We could have won few tests if some decisions could have gone our ways. Instead, umpires gave decisions in favour of "elits" willingly or unwillingly. Remember the tests against England in Dhaka and Chittagong few years back? We could have won both, but umpires decided not to. So were the situation against New Zealand. And we all saw how was the umpiring against Sri Lanka weeks back?

Now, Mr Scyld Berry could argue that "bad" umpiring is part of the game and "cats" should learn how to play test cricket.

Well, I refuse to agree with.
Why?

How on earth, an umpiring decision (i.e., LBW) goes in favour of a bowler when there is lack of solid evidence to prove that the ball was going to hit the stumps? You can certainly guess that the batter was a Bangladeshi here. exactly the same happens when a Bangladeshi bowler bowls, the batter seems plumb LBW, not surprisingly, the decision goes in favour of the opposition "elit" batter!!
Pity, eh?

Our captain Mushy said in a post match briefing "Mominul wasn't OUT" , where he mentioned one out could change or determine the outcome of a match for the tigers which I truly agree. For teams like us, one bad decision is enough to lose the match.

We aren't in a position to dictect the umpires for being unbaised, but we could control and monitor their decisions through DRS which would eliminate "wrong" decisions and gave a fair chance to the tigers to win a match or two.

I urge BCB to implement/use DRS every match tigers play, especially tests. If we don't win test matches soon, we might not be playing test any more in future. And if we lose our test status, BCB will surely lose revenue big time by failing to attract big sponsors. So, for BCB's shake, do the right thing BCB.

Use DRS, win tests, and save your a$$.

[Roey Haque]

Agree 100%.

From the title of the thread it looks like you are making a case against the use of DRS, putting a question mark in place of a period. Admittedly, I came into this thread mad as a dawg. But all good, DRS is badly needed.

[AbuDarda]

বিসিবি নাকি একেবারেই ফকির মিসকিন,টাকা পয়সা খুবি কম,তাই ডিআরএস নেওয়ার সামর্থ্য নাই তাদের!

[al Furqaan]

Signed.

[al-Sagar]

khelar ticket er upor dorkar hoel extra surcharcge arop kora houk ......

DRS er jonno alada sponsor neya houk .......

tau DRS use kora houk .....

500 taka diye dol haruk dekhar cheye 1000 taka diye dola jita dekha onek bhalo

[MohammedC]

Originally Posted by al-Sagar
khelar ticket er upor dorkar hoel extra surcharcge arop kora houk ......

DRS er jonno alada sponsor neya houk .......

tau DRS use kora houk .....

500 taka diye dol haruk dekhar cheye 1000 taka diye dola jita dekha onek bhalo

Sponsor er tho obab nai. Ja shunsi onek sponsor tho bhoy pai, na jani oder keu bole fele...oi beta thumra eto poysha paila koi.....tax diso.

[Jadukor]

BPL er poishai clear korte parlona akhono... Janina ashole koto poisha aase BCBr

[MohammedC]

Originally Posted by Jadukor
BPL er poishai clear korte parlona akhono... Janina ashole koto poisha aase BCBr

Accha bhai BPL er poisha kar responsibility team er na BCB er.

[Tigers_eye]

Doesn't the host board instill DRS? They are the ones who bear the cost. If that is the case then forget it.

[tiger1000]

No point of the thread to be honest, you won't meet a BD fan that would want anything but DRS, the amount of poor decision we have to face is ridiculous, we probably average atleast 1 poor decision every ODI match and 3+ in a test match

[cricman79]

How much does it cost......any idea?

[BANFAN]

BCB just needs to have the intent to do it... Yes just Shut up and do it... Everything else is just Bahana/ Excuses....

[Jadukor]

Originally Posted by MohammedC
Accha bhai BPL er poisha kar responsibility team er na BCB er.

prothom e obosshoi team er... but team toh poisha ditesena ar jehitu BCB guarantor shehitu akhon oder dayeetto

[reyme]

I had been waiting for this thread since I joined BC, back in 2004.
Thank you Kalpurush Bhai! This thread should be a sticky.

UDRS cost apx $80-$100K per series, I heard. This is just ballpark.
And I am sure it might be much cheaper if negotiated out long term.
At least for Home Tests we should have UDRS, something we can control.
We were robbed 2 Test Win against England as Kapurush Bhai pointed out.

[ahnaf]

Originally Posted by Jadukor
prothom e obosshoi team er... but team toh poisha ditesena ar jehitu BCB guarantor shehitu akhon oder dayeetto

Gotobar shesh porjonto to bcb e kei dite hoysilo

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[cricbook]

Drs must needed for bd.... the way we can play proper cricket..