Mumbai: Batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar is still not sure the Decision Review System (DRS) is close to 100 percent foolproof for him to accept it. When technology is seen as a panacea for all on-field questionable decisions by umpires, Tendulkar says he is all for technology provided it is foolproof.
"I endorse any technology that is close to being 100 percent. I have an issue with half-baked technologies. If it's close to foolproof I don't have a problem with it. Technology is fast becoming an important factor in every sport but we have to be careful to see it is not overdone," Tendulkar said.
India is the only country not to accept this technology in cricket. While every country uses DRS in bilateral Test series, India refuses to employ it for the matches it plays.
Football, too, after a lot of deliberation, has agreed to use goal-line technology to ascertain if the ball has crossed the line. Tennis is another sport which for sometime has been using hawk-eye technology for line calls....
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04:33 PM, Jun 02, 2013
The PCB had also expressed reservations over the effectiveness of the hot spot technology used by umpires in the DRS. ... 
The Pakistan Cricket Board will implement the DRS for the one-day series against Australia. ... 
An ICC delegation will visit BCCI to show the research after the latter rejected DRS at ICC's executive board meet. ... 
The recommendation of ICC's executive committee to make the use of technology mandatory has been overturned. ... 
The DRS technology will continue to be used in a mutually agreed arrangement in bilateral series. ... 
ICC advocated mandatory use of the DRS, an innovation that has been consistently denied by BCCI, in Tests and ODIs. ... 
A wide range of other issues will also be discussed during the meeting including T20 strategy and the ODI format. ... 
India has strongly resisted the use of the DRS because of their senior players' doubts over its accuracy. ... 
