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Technology in umpiring

Posted by Amit Varma on 10/18/2005 in Technology in umpiring

There are few topics that arouse as much passion as the use of technology in cricket. An umpire makes a couple of mistakes and everyone is screaming for technology, and getting decisions right, and reducing human error, and so on. But when the referrals to the third umpire pile up, everybody screams about the artificial delays and how the charm of the game is ruined, and so on. So is technology in umpiring a good thing or a bad thing? And if it should be there, to what extent should it be there?

To debate this we've assembled an inhouse group of writers with strong opinions on the subject: Sambit Bal, Martin Williamson, S Rajesh, Andrew Miller and myself. Sambit will kick off the discussion in a short while, and then mayhem will be unleashed. Coming up ...

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