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India is holding the world to ransom on DRS: Daryl Harper

Updated on: 31 December,2011 07:54 AM IST  | 
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Former Test umpire Daryl Harper, who was forced into premature retirement earlier this year in the West Indies, said India's ludicrous refusal to use cricket's electronic eye is a calculated move to preserve a successful approach to over-appealing that is neutralised by technology.

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Former Test umpire Daryl Harper, who was forced into premature retirement earlier this year in the West Indies, said India's ludicrous refusal to use cricket's electronic eye is a calculated move to preserve a successful approach to over-appealing that is neutralised by technology.






"If you get one wrong in this format it can't be rectified. It is a ludicrous situation, which makes every situation magnified. It is very frustrating," said the Australian, who retired from the ICC elite panel after 95 Tests and 175 one-day internationals in June.

Harper feels that Indian cricket board's argument that the technology isn't fool proof is a lowest common denominator argument.u00a0

"The technology is not 100 per cent accurate but it never will be. It is not perfect but it is a step in the right direction," Harper was quoted as saying by Adelaide Now.u00a0
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