Kumar Sangakkara, the Sri Lanka captain, has said that the ICC should ensure that the UDRS should be uniformly used for all the Test matches. Earlier, the Indian cricket board had refused the use of UDRS for their series against Sri Lanka. >
The ICC rules stipulate that the UDRS can be used if the host broadcaster has the technology and the visitors have okayed the same. However, the BCCI has vehemently opposed the system right from the first time they had used it in the series against India in 2008.
One of the reasons why the BCCI has rejected pleas to use the UDRS is its exorbitant cost, that means that either the host broadcaster – in case of India, it is Nimbus Sports – or the BCCI themselves will have to incur the costs. This is not agreeable to either party.
Sangakkara also said that he always thought that the ICC had set a rule that every country needed to use the UDRS. He also added that his team had suffered a lot in the last Test series that the two sides had played in India last year, because the BCCI had refused its use.
The Indians had failed to use the system well in 2008, when 11 of their appeals to the UDRS were rejected in the entire series as against one by Sri Lanka.