Garner: Umpire review system a gimmick

Thu, Dec 10, '09

 

Joel Garner believes the umpire’s decision review system, the UDRS, is "a gimmick that everyone's been experimenting with" and should be taken out of cricket. The system was ’not working as it was expected to’, Garner, veteran of 58 Tests between 1977 and 1985 and currently director of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). "I can understand the use of TV technology in terms of run outs, stumpings and that sort of thing, like whether the ball is pitched between wicket and wicket or outside leg-stump, yes, if the umpire has doubts,’ he said.