I said this many years ago that "Umpires Call" should be SCRAPPED.
I also argued back in 2010/2011 that the "ball trajectory projection" is
IMPERFECT and NEEDS to be IMPROVED.
If the ball hits the stumps it must be out regardless of how much it hits.
Stokes called for DRS to scrap umpires call AFTER LOSING the match and
getting the RAW end of the stick.
I wish he advocated for it long time back.
I sympathize with Crawley's DRS lbw dismissal. It shouldn't have been
given by the on field umpire.
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https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/ben-stokes-wants-drs-to-scrap-umpire-s-call-1421714
Stokes calls for DRS to scrap umpire's call
England captain questions Zak Crawley's second-innings lbw dismissal
Ben Stokes has called for the Decision Review System (DRS) to scrap
umpire's call after England were left bemused by Zak Crawley's
second-innings dismissal in their defeat in the third Test against India
in Rajkot.
Crawley reviewed Kumar Dharamasena's decision to give him out lbw to
Jasprit Bumrah in the ninth over but left the field incensed, believing
the predicted path showed the ball would be missing the top of leg
stump. It was the second time Crawley has been on the receiving end of a
marginal DRS call, after being adjudged leg before against Kuldeep Yadav
in Visakhapatnam following a review from Rohit Sharma. Stokes called the
decision "wrong" at the time.
The England captain was seen alongside head coach Brendon McCullum
seeking clarification from match referee Jeff Crowe after England's
434-run loss. Speaking at stumps, Stokes said he was told the error was
with the image produced, which showed the projected path of the ball
just missing the top of leg stump. Hawk-Eye confirmed to Stokes the
calculations themselves were correct, which predicted enough contact
with leg stump to stay with the on-field decision.
"We just wanted some clarity around Zak's DRS when the images came
back," revealed Stokes. "The ball is quite clearly missing the stump on
the replay. So when it gets given umpire's call and the ball's not
actually hitting the stumps, we were a bit bemused. So we just wanted
some clarity from the Hawk-Eye guys.
"It came back saying the numbers, or whatever it is that is, it was
saying that it was hitting the stumps but it was the projection that was
wrong. I don't know what that means. Something's gone wrong, so, yeah.
"It's not me blaming that on what's happened here, like I didn't last
week. It's just… what's going on?
England were also riled by Ollie Pope's dismissal in the first innings.
Originally given "not out" against Mohammed Siraj, the decision was
overturned because the impact on leg stump was deemed conclusive.
Watching live, the tourists assumed the on-field decision would stand.
Stokes reiterated he did not think such calls were the reason England
are now 2-1 down in the five-match series. But he stated his preference
that the system needs to be changed, starting with umpire's call.
"We've been on the wrong end of three umpire's calls this game and that
is part of DRS. You're either on the right side or the wrong side.
Unfortunately, we've been on the wrong side. I'm not saying and never
will say that's the reason why we've lost this game, because 500 is a
lot of runs.
"It is not something you pin down to result of the game. Sometimes when
you are on the wrong end of those decisions it hurts but that is part of
the game. You want them to go your way, sometimes they do, sometimes
they don't
"You just want a level playing field. The umpires have an incredibly
hard job as it is, especially in India when the ball is spinning. My
personal opinion is if the ball is hitting the stumps, it is hitting the
stumps. They should take away 'umpire's call' if I'm being perfectly
honest. I don't want to get too much into it because it sounds like we
are moaning and saying that is why we lost the Test match."
Stokes' original comments about the accuracy of the DRS during the
second Test prompted Paul Hawkins, the creator of Hawk-Eye's
ball-tracking technology, to defend the system and the processes in place.
"There isn't [even] a one percent chance of it being wrong," Hawkins
told the Sunday Times. "For every DRS [incident], we do screen-grabs
which show everything the [Hawk-Eye] operator shows. This is automatic,
we can't manipulate it, and that immediately goes to the ICC [the game's
governing body] as part of the quality control process.
"There are also two independent tracking systems. The cameras are the
same, but the operators do their calibrations and the manual bit
independently. This provides back-up in the unlikely event that one
crashes. Even if there is an lbw shout, let alone a review, the person
that plays the review to TV [must check] before anything goes to air
that both trajectories give the same result, and are hitting the stumps
in the same place.
"It's not a fully automated system, but a lot is done to eliminate human
error by having checks, training and this process of two people doing
things independently, [which] has pretty much always been there."