In a two-part discussion, Damith is joined by Kartikeya Date from the blog A Cricketing View to help peel away the many layers of the DRS onion and investigate its objectives, its struggle to marry the umpire with technology and it's future.
Andrew Fernando is ESPNcricinfo's Sri Lanka correspondent. A voracious accumulator in paper ball cricket during his primary school days, Fernando's greatest cricketing achievement remains his leadership of the Boys side in a famous campaign against the Girls and Reject Boys outfit in year 3. Blessed also with an astute mind, Fernando is remembered for pioneering the six-and-out rule in his classroom and for formulating the quickly-put-the-ball-in-your-pocket-so-the-teacher-doesn't-see contingency plan for sudden adult arrival. Follow him on Twitter: @andrewffernando.
Damith Samarakoon is a Sri Lankan cricket writer who contributes sporadically to ESPNCricinfo's Page2. His all round cricket ability is not rated by anyone except himself. Self proclaimed book cricket world champion, Samarakoon spends most of his time blogging at www.theflyslip.net. Willing to work for Kirbath and Kokkis, he lives with a stuffed cat and his computer. Follow him on Twitter: @theflyslip.
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regarding his comment about howlers, these can be decisions that were apparently reasonable until they were exposed beyond human perception to be erroneous.
But what we would like surely is a classification of the types of errors that are made and rectified. Consider the studies that have shown that umpires underestimate the size of the stumps and tend to give not out when they should give out. Are umpires learning as a result?
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