Despite change of guard, BCCI unlikely to warm up to DRS

MUMBAI: Test skipper Virat Kohli might have stressed on the importance of the Decision Review System (DRS) after the Galle defeat during Sri Lanka tour, but the BCCI is unlikely to change its stand on it.

“As far as DRS is concerned, I am agreeable to everything except the leg-before decisions because you are substituting the opinion of the third umpire in place of the main umpire while even the camera angle can make a difference with regard to the angle of the delivery. On all other things, I am agreeable to DRS. This, I have stated at the

THE NEW PRESIDENT, MANOHAR, ANNOUNCED THAT WOMEN CRICKETERS WOULD BE OFFERED CONTRACTS LIKE THEIR MALE COUNTERPARTS

ICC meetings since 2010,” said the new BCCI chief Shashank Manohar.

Known for his candid approach, the BCCI president also admitted that the country lacked quality spinners and that plans would immediately be put in place to prepare and groom the next generation cricketers.

“(We) will be starting the National Cricket Academy again, whose activity has not been up to the mark as on date. We will see to it that the NCA functions round the clock so that cricketing talent is developed in the country. Today, we are short of the second-string team. There are no spinners in this country, so it our duty to see to it that we have another lot as a replacement to the current players,” he said.

Manohar, who had served as BCCI president between 2008 and 2011, also announced that women cricketers would be contracted like their male counterparts.