Thakur says BCCI open to using DRS minus Hawk-Eye

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BCCI president Anurag Thakur has said that India is open to agreeing on a revised template for the Decision Review System (DRS) in matches, specifically that they may agree to the use of all non-predictive elements of the system if they can be “delinked” from Hawk-Eye’s projections in lbw decisions.

“You can have some and leave [Hawk-Eye],” Thakur told ESPNcricinfo in Florida during India’s T20 series against West Indies this past weekend. “If that comes as an option, we can look into that.”

When asked specifically if the BCCI would accept the use of visual aids such as Hot Spot and real-time Snicko in addition to the standard camera angles, Thakur nodded in the affirmative. He reiterated the BCCI’s longstanding opposition to Hawk-Eye, though, because it is not “100% foolproof”.

The ICC had commissioned a group of MIT researchers in Boston to do …

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