Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has praised the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) mover for having DRS in the Duleep Trophy 2024, highlighting the advantages the upcoming batter gets to make necessary amendments before entering international cricket.
Ashwin has highlighted an argument on the leg before the dismissal of India D batter Ricky Bhui against India C left-arm spinner Manav Suthar in the Anantapur.
Bhui was batting on 44 runs, but stretched forward to play defensive prod and got breezed on his pads.
The on-field umpire initially didn’t give him out as the bowler was forced to resort to the DRS, which favored the bowler for a leg before dismissal.
“DRS for domestic cricket is not just for the right decisions to be made. Ricky Bhuvi’s (Bhui) dismissal last evening against Manav Suthar is a classic case of a batter who will get away with this technique 10/10 times in FC cricket,” said Ashwin.
DRS for domestic cricket is not just for the right decisions to be made.
Ricky Bhuvi’s dismissal last evening against Manav Suthar is a classic case of a batter who will get away with this technique 10/10 times in FC cricket.
This was not a faulty technique pre DRS but now it… pic.twitter.com/Ip2BXHgJBe
— Ashwin 🇮🇳 (@ashwinravi99) September 7, 2024
“This was not a faulty technique pre-DRS but now it is. Back in the day batters were given not out just because they managed to get on the front foot,” Ravichandran Ashwin added.
During the early days of DRS, the former West Indies batter Jimmy Adam employed this technique quite routinely to escape from lbw.
“Now, keeping your bat behind the pad can be fatal, imagine someone making the climb to international cricket without getting this experience Ricky got yesterday.
“He could very well take an entire Test series to understand what he needs to work on and his career could well be over,” Ravichandran Ashwin wrote.
The DRS was first introduced in the domestic circuit during the 2019-20 season and is yet to be fully implemented in domestic matches.
It is still restricted to domestic matches such as Ranji Trophy semifinals and finals. The DRS came without the Ultraedge feature and it was later added to the system during the 2022-23 domestic season, only for the final.
The full version of the DRS is available for the ongoing Duleep Trophy matches in Bengaluru and Anantapur.
