Melbourne: Australian skipper Ricky Ponting has joined the list of people who have an opinion about the controversial Decision Review System saying that the system still needs a little more refinement and the ICC should have first trialled it in one-day and T20 games before introducing it in test cricket.

“Ideally, a lot of those things with rule changes, we’ve brought into 50-over cricket over the last couple of years. You’d like to have trialled them elsewhere,” Ponting was quoted as saying by The Sydney Morning Herald. “The last 12 months that the review system was used in was more a trial period. We know that it’s going to be used in every Test series from now on. I still think there’s some refinement that can be done with the actual technology that’s used.”

DRS, which allows batsmen to challenge umpiring decisions when they feel that the umpire has made a mistake, is being used in the ongoing Test series between Australia and the West Indies. The system has run into trouble right from the beginning with the controversy surrounding the decision by umpire Mark Benson in the Brisbane test which was overturned, despite lack of video evidence.

Ponting said that if DRS is to justify its introduction then it will have to be 100 per cent accurate. “That is the big thing – if you’re going to go into something like this, you’ve got to go in 100 per cent and use whatever you can that you can use to make the system its absolute best,” he said. “We’re all still coming to terms with it. The more we play with it and experience it, I guess the more we’ll appreciate it.”

He, however, was in support of the system despite all the teething problems that it’s facing, saying that the innovation will eventually be good for the game if its used properly.

“I’m still supportive of it, because at the end of the day, when we all learn a bit more about it and understand it a bit more, I think it will still have a good impact on the game,” he said. “The thing I want to do is chat to the umpires and get their views and opinions on the whole system as well. I think that’s the important thing and sometimes important people can be overlooked in some of these rule-changing decisions that are brought in.”

“I want to see how they are going with it all. It’s one thing for the players to accept these sorts of changes and technologies, but it’s another thing for the umpires as well. I want to get the overall feeling from them as to how it’s going,” he added.

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