IND vs ENG: Umpire Kumar Dharmasena asked not to 'better' record by BCCI

Umpire Kumar Dharmasena signals for a review on Day Five of the first Test between Bangladesh and England at Zohur Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong on October 24 PicGetty ImagesThere will be an element of the perfect storm for Sri Lankan umpire Kumar Dharmasena in Rajkot where India have agreed to adopt the Decision Review SystemBut the Sri Lankan official due to stand in next weeks first Test of five between England and India and the second in Vizag before reverting to thirdumpire status in Mohali can count on the support of his employers at the International Cricket Council ICCAlso ReadIND vs ENG Moeen Ali Adil Rashid are safe in India says ECBDharmasena bagged an unenviable record by the end of Englands series against Bangladesh last weekend in which 13 of his 27 decisions referred to DRS were overturned with the help of technologyHe moves on like England to India and will doubtless find himself under scrutiny again after the hosts agreement to use DRS on a trial basis Geoff Allardice ICCs general manager confirmed the world governing body welcomes Indias belated adoption of a system which has been in use in an increasing majority of bilateral series over the past seven yearsHe also pointed out that although overturned decisions are inevitably among the information taken into account in the ICCs annual assessments of their elite umpires no snap decisions will be made about any official on the basis of one performanceConditions for both Tests during Englands 11 draw in Bangladesh favoured spin and made onfield calls tough a point stressed by AllardiceDRS almost perfectOften DRS delivers its best results when the pitches are turning or seaming and umpiring is difficult he saidGenerally in DRS series we deliver 98 to 97 correct decisions and that provides consistency whether conditions are difficult for onfield umpires or the umpire is having a good day or a bad dayIts quite a test for an umpire in those conditions because you can often be making good umpiring decisions that are later proven to be incorrect for example getting a glove on a sweep shot that then means an lbw is overturned as happened a few timesThose specifics will all be taken into account by the ICCSometimes you can make what is quite an understandable umpiring decision and it be overturned as incorrect You dont get as concerned about those types of decisions as ones where there is a misjudgment or obviously a concentration error We make those judgments when we go through the assessment process Allardice addedOccasional adversity is an occupational hazard for any umpire and Allardice stresses it is the response in the short and long term which is keyImmediate resultOne of the skills of an umpire at all levels whether there is DRS or not is his resilience to mistakes In the old days you used to find out when you came off the field whether youd made a mistake or not now that feedback is a little bit more immediate he saidBeing able to process that feedback about your decisions and then try to either use it to improve your decisionmaking or to not let it affect your decisionmaking is the thing that determines an elite umpire from the next level downDharmasena reacted as the ICC hoped even as a string of his tightest line calls were being dissected as the ball continued to turn sharply in Chittagong and DhakaYou could even see during the two Test matches that Kumar did on the field that he was reacting in a positive way even though he had a number of decisions overturned said Allardice