ICC to use review system for World Cup 2011
The international governing body of the cricket, ICC has taken steps to introduce Decision Review System starting form Quarterfinal stage of the World Cup, scheduled to be played in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh from the February to April 2011.
The DRS system is based on “Hawkeye” technology which uses infrared sensors to accurately show where the ball touched the bat or the batsman.
ICC has introduced this Decision Review System in for the first time in its history for making ICC cricket World Cup 2011 presentation more entertaining and eye-catching.
“The DRS will be used in four quarter-finals, two semi-finals and the final, a total of seven matches, in ICC Cricket World Cup,” an ICC spokesperson told on Wednesday.
He explained that the DRS would only be used in final stages of the tournament to be played in India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh to cope up with small number of proper equipments which would also be used during the League Phase.
The knockout stage of the tournament will be played from 23 March to 2 April.
In the meantime, ICC venue inspection team including seven groups inspected Wankhede Stadium in India which is to host the grand finale.
ICC spokesperson told, “Seven groups are dealing with cricket operations, commerce, grounds, legal, security, broadcast, and media. They had inspection of the stadium and whatever they saw today will be shared with Tournament Director [Prof Ratnakar Shetty],” he said.
The renovation work in the stadium is still in process although it started two years back, but officials of the Mumbai Cricket Association who own this, assured that all the preparations would be completed by the end of this year.
The source of MCA told that everything would be ready by 31 December and final touches will be completed until 15 January.
ICC is keenly concerned with every aspect of preparation related to upcoming World Cup. As a requirement, the organisers will play a few matches on newly laid pitch and refurbished outfield in order to check their perfection for hosting World Cup matches.
Earlier, a Ranji Trophy league match between Mumbai and Assam was scheduled to be held from 24 November, was shifted to MCA's Bandra-Kurla Complex ground because of delay in venue arrangements.
The visit of international governing body of cricket in Wankhede Stadium follows its inspection of Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai, another venue to host World Cup matches.
Besides, ICC has also visited five other venues in India which are hosting World Cup matches. Last month it visited Nagpur, Mohali, Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Delhi while visit for Kolkata’s Eden Gardens was arranged on Thursday.
"We would be visiting Dhaka and Chittagong in Bangladesh from December 10-14," the spokesperson added.
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