The Indian Cricket Board has laid down three topics and one of it bars the commentators to not speak a word about the DRS. The BCCI has asked the commentators of its production unit such as Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri, Laxman Sivaramakrishnan and Matthew Hayden to not utter a word on DRS, Indian selection and administration.
Commentators working for Star Sports, including Harsha Bhogle, Sourav Ganguly and Shane Warne, are also subject to BCCI restrictions.
"I can't do my job properly under those circumstances," Chappell was quoted as saying in the Sydney Morning Herald.
"In the studio for Nine [during the Ashes], I made a number of comments about the DRS and what a load of rubbish I thought it was.
"I'm even more convinced of that after the Ashes. I know that the Indian players, Tendulkar in particular but I think there's probably more than that, don't trust it. I think Jacques Kallis is on record as saying he doesn't trust it, and from my experience I don't trust it, either."
"Administrators say to players, 'Do you want more technology?' What they don't explain to the players is there's a human hand in there that is subject to the same thing as an umpire's decision - human error," he said.
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