Friday, July 10, 2009

Harper backs umpire referral system

ICC's elite panel umpire Daryl Harper has supported the Umpire Decision Referral System, to be rolled-out in Tests from October, saying it had increased their percentage of correct decisions to 98 per cent during the trial series.

"It did have a few problems associated with it but generally speaking when we look at the bigger picture our percentages of correct decisions did increase during the series," said Harper, currently on duty in Sri Lanka for the series against Pakistan.

"In fact, in each series when there was a trial, and there were a number of them, the umpires' (correct) decisions went from roughly 93 to 94 per cent up to 98 per cent after using the reviews," he said in an ICC press release.

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