If ever there was a justification for the ICC to call for Decision Review of DRS, it must surely be after Rohit Sharma’s recent admission that “DRS is a tricky one. It’s like a lottery. If you get it right, you get it right. Otherwise, you hope for the best.”

Surely, when DRS was first introduced, it was never the intention that it was to be used a strategic tool, much less this concession now that it has become a lottery. That is a damning indictment of just how far cricketers have strayed from the old traditions of accepting the umpire’s verdict, taking the good with the bad, it all evens out in the end… the usual cliches that the gentleman’s game was founded on.