Dear Editor,
As every cricket fan knows, the DRS was designed to improve the quality of umpiring, not to judge how good captains are at assessing whether a batsman was or was not out. Discussions about whether a review was good or bad have an air of irrationality about them, as they tend to shift the responsibility for umpiring errors onto captains. For example, a captain who had two reviews turned down is blamed for leaving the next batsman without the right of a review, and if the umpire mistakenly gives that batsman out it is not the umpire who is at fault, but rather the captain, who was stupid to have taken two bad reviews.
Commentators should end this nonsense, but they will continue until the ICC either justifies its rationale for limiting the right to review, or removes the silly limitation and applies penalties for abuse of review which there is no objective basis for fearing.
Yours faithfully,
Romain Pitt
