No lbw referrals in England-India series

WOW! with money all thing r possible, including­ revising DRS and influencing umpires.

@chlamys.... It is absurd to say that BCCI is against­ DRS because of Indian players are afraid of Swan!!...­ You are talking about the likes of Sachin, Dravid,­ Laxman and Sehwag!!!! They are all seasoned­ Veterans..Swan may be a big player in England, but no­ way near to the league of greats like Murali, Warne­ and Kumble... Besides, no one on earth will dare to­ pad a delivery thinking Umpire will not give it out­ because of the absence of DRS... It is pure ego of­ BCCI to to show other cricketing nations that who is­ the big boss.....

First of all chlamys, not walking may be distasteful to­ many, (myself included) but it certainly isn't­ cheating. Those that never walk will claim to a man­ that the umpire is in the middle to make the decision,­ and whether they nick the ball or not, if the umpire­ doesn't give it out, they'll carry on batting.­ It's morally incorrect, but it's their right to­ stay at the crease and completely within the rules. If­ anything DRS has made those already of that persuasion­ even more likely to stand their ground at the crease­ than before.

However, the rest of your post i totally­ agree with. As exustrek has also said earlier this­ decision will have a marked effect on our most­ dangerous bowler Graeme Swann. One cannot help thinking­ that it's deliberate, though one would hope that it­ isn't the case. In any event the ICC have got this­ issue totally wrong, DRS should be the world standard­ by now and the Indians should be made to fall into line­ with everyone else. But of course while the Indian­ cricket board continue to have far too much influence­ over the ICC, the ICC will continue in this limp­ wristed fashion.......

Dhoni's behaviour in the West Indies when he tried­ to bully Darrel Harper into changing his mind over a­ dismissal surely reveals why the Indians don't want­ the DRS. They believe that they can pressurise­ the umpires on the international stage as they have­ done for years in their own domestic cricket. ­ If Indian umpires were that good the international­ panel would be full of them but they are conspicuous by­ their absence. The Indians Board believes that­ spectators go to watch batsmen and bowlers are only­ there to deliver the ball for them to hit or kick away.­

I believe that they are wary of the DRS­ because they no longer have bowlers who can move the­ ball sideways. If they could still field bowlers of­ the talent of Bedi or Chandrasakar they would be all­ for it. They want to have to liberty of playing­ Swan with their pads. I hope the umpires are­ really positive and give more LBW decisions not less. ­ If Hawkeye is still used by the TV companies and­ shows batsmen being repeatedly hit on the pads and not­ being given out it makes mockery of the idea of a­ fair contest between bat and ball. In the case of­ catches the DRS is only necessary because batsmen cheat­ and do not walk when they know the have hit the ball. ­ If players played by the spirit as well as the rules­ of the game umpires would be more or less redundant. ­ It is the presence of cheating in the form of not­ walking and appealing for catches when the ball is­ nowhere near the bat that has necessitated the DRS

@Malcolm Sanford... Presence or absence of DRS­ doesn't grand permission for the umpires to make­ mistakes.. Umpires are paid for giving good decisions..­ I will say after the inclustion of DRS umpires became­ more careless and prone to make mistakes thinking DRS­ will correct it... I have seen some silly decisions in­ WC which was later corrected by DRS.....

But I agree­ that BCCI is playing big daddy here....ICC is just a­ puppet... What to do?? Money rules...

cheating lying dirty scumbags hope you loose every one­ of your matches or even better the ICC and the ECB grow­ some b,alls and kick you out of cricket all together

I wonder how happy Satchin will be if on 99 and is­ given out LBW and it was shown on hawkeye to be missing­ .......

Totally inconceivable when the other 9 test­ playing nations all accept the DRS in it's full­ scope that 1 nation can still object., pure posturing­ on the part of the Indians, who still have the colonial­ chip on their collective shoulder. We don't want it­ and because we are now the powehouse of the ICC we can­ dictate, what we want.

Well good luck to them, I­ don't wish that it comes back to bite them, though­ invariably things like this normally do. I don't­ want the Indians to say that England beat them because­ of bad decisions. Though with what Strauss as said­ about 4 bowlers I don't think we will beat them.

They intend to play Swann with the pad, rather than the­ bat.

Hope the umpires react accordingly.

That's a bit ironic from India - given the fact­ that they won the Wolrd Cup Semi final on a DRS­ decision which was plum LBW against Tendulkar & was­ given out by the umpire but the hawkeye somehow seemed­ to suggets it was missing the stumps! Bith Tendulkar­ (who was about to walk off) and the umpire couldn't­ believe the decision but it was overturned &­ Tendulakr went on to make the match winning 80+ score.­ So why complain about the technology now?