'Ball tracking technology isn't that ready': Harsha Bhogle comments on Umpire's Call-DRS row

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Taking to X, he wrote, A lot of influential people are asking for Umpire's Call to be done away with..

Earlier on 18 February, England Test captain Ben Stokes called for the Decision Review System (DRS) to scrap the umpire's call..

"He (match referee Jeff Crowe) was giving us some information around how it was judged to be given out when the ball was not hitting the stumps on the DRS replay..

Meanwhile, Stokes' comments about the accuracy of the DRS prompted Paul Hawkins creator of Hawk-Eye's ball-tracking technology to defend the system and the processes in place..

Even if there is an LBW shout, let alone a review, the person that plays the review to TV [must check] before anything goes to air that both trajectories give the same result, and are hitting the stumps in the same place..

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