The major concern has been with regards to LBW decisions. Manohar noted during a conversation that took place on the Facebook account of the BCCI as ESPNCricinfo reports. The BCCI President added that the board was never apprehensive of DRS, but only had issues regarding the leg before decision.

“Actually telling you the truth, the BCCI was never against the DRS system right from the time of my earlier tenure, we had issues only regarding the leg before decisions to be decided by the DRS system. For everything else we were accepting the DRS system," he said.

Manohar also spoke about India rejecting DRS earlier during his tenure as president when the ICC asked them to either accept DRS as a whole or reject it.

Speaking about the incident, he said: “At the ICC meeting, it was decided that either we accept the DRS system as a whole or we don’t accept a DRS system. We were not willing. And today also we are not willing to accept the DRS system for leg-before system because when you shoot it from a distance, a parallax develops and then you are not able to give the exact direction of the delivery.

“Secondly, instead of the umpire imagining the bounce and the direction of the trajectory, it is the person sitting behind the camera who is going into the DRS. He is going to have his imagination put in the place of the umpire’s imagination with regard to the bounce.”

Manohar mentioned how the person who was involved in evloving the system wasn’t able to answer these questions raised by him at an ICC executive meeting in 2011.

“Even the person who has evolved this DRS system was not able to answer me and was not able to satisfy all the members of the ICC, and as you know, there are lot problems even in the DRS systems which are raised by various countries. Therefore unless and until the DRS system is foolproof with regards to leg-before decisions the BCCI will not accept it," he said.

The lawyer also supported previous president N. Srinivasan on the matter. Srinivasan also felt the same and even under his reign, the BCCI never approved DRS, which was considered “faulty” with a bit of luck involved.

Dave Richardson, ICC’s CEO, has been optimistic about DRS and feels that the “modern player was more amenable to new ideas and innovation.”

Indian players like Virat Kohli and Ravichandran Ashwin have been open towards DRS. The former recently spoke about how he wanted to talk to his team about the system, whereas Ashwin was open to adapt to the system completely ignoring the predictive element.

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