Skipper admits DRS review is Paine-ful process

CRICKET: Test captain Tim Paine says Australia are exploring ways to finetune their decision review system (DRS) referral process after a costly mistake in the late stages of the third Ashes Test.

Paine, who has been rested from the three-day tour match against Derbyshire, has taken responsibility for the now-infamous blunder at Headingley.

The keeper unsuccessfully used Australia’s last review on a leg-side lbw shout against tailender Jack Leach.

It left them high and dry when Joel Wilson turned down Nathan Lyon’s appeal on Ben Stokes, with DRS indicating the English match-winner would have been given out on review – two runs shy of victory.

Australia, unlike many other teams, use a two-man approach to discuss potential referrals as Paine doubles as capwith tain and wicketkeeper.

That system has produced the worst DRS success rate of the nine Test nations since Paine’s first full match at the helm in Johannesburg last year.

Paine has been unsuccessful in 48 of his 61, or 78.69 per cent, of his reviews,.

The skipper admits he has to do better and has gone back to the drawing board to improve his strike rate.

“We’re trying our best to come up a system that’s better,” Paine said yesterday.

“Where we can gather information on what different people are seeing on the field at the time and in that 15 seconds, try and make a better decision than what we have been.

“It’s a little bit of trial and error. It’s certainly difficult but it’s definitely an area we’d like to get better at.”