Chappell hits out at BCCI for muzzling commentators over DRS

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Press Trust of India Melbourne
Last Updated : Oct 10 2013 | 12:10 PM IST
Former Australian skipper Ian Chappell has slammed Indian Cricket Board for "muzzling" commentators over the controversial DRS and said he won't be working under the terms of BCCI during the seven-match ODI series between India and Australia starting Sunday.
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.
A stalwart of Channel Nine's commentary team, Ian Chappell, himself, feels DRS as a "load of rubbish" but he said he will not work under the terms of the BCCI.
"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."
The 70-year-old also questioned whether television umpires were trained enough to use video technology.
"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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First Published: Oct 10 2013 | 12:10 PM IST

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