Its time to bring appeal system in ODI

I don’t know whether bowlers have increased their speed of bowling or its umpires who are careless, lots of poor decisions are taken by the umpires these days. Especially this problem started in India-Australia test series. Due to poor decisions of umpires, India even lost a match. Recently Rohit Sharma who was given out by Rudi Koertzen expressed his disappointment to the umpire that he was not out. As a result, Rohit was fined 10% of the match fee. This is a punishment given to him as he didn’t follow ICC’s code of conduct. But what’s the punishment given for poor decision given by the umpire Rudi? Recently Gilchrist was not given out for a caught behind appeal. But Gilchrist himself started walking as he knows that the ball touched his bat. I like Gilchrist in this aspect. He will never stay in the ground after coming to know that he is out. Gilly is really an excellent an example for a good sportsmanship. But the same Gilly was given out in the fourth ODI of CB series vs. India. He knew that the ball touched his bat before touching his pad. But he started walking after umpire gives him out. He was not fined as he didn’t express his disappointment. ICC is not using the high technology available these days. Cameras are available to focus the ball clearly, but even then, these wrong decisions are given.

I have seen a local match in star sports which was played in England. An umpire again took a wrong decision. Immediately, the batsman appealed to the third umpire and he gave him not out. I can’t express you in words about the blush on the umpire’s face. The only solution for these kinds of poor decisions is this appeal system. A batsman should be allowed to appeal if he feels that he was not out. A wrong decision by the umpires can change the result of a match. Even umpires cannot be blamed due to the presence of very fast bowlers like Akhtar and Lee, but its ICC’s duty to fix these kinds of loop holes. It’s bad on their part for not using the technology present these days. Let’s see what is being done by ICC to solve this problem.