Decision Review System or DRS as its popularly known is a player’s key artillery these days. Recently introduced in popular sports like cricket, tennis and even our domestic Kabaddi league, DRS allows players to have a re-look at the decision given by the on-field umpire. The technology is called for and the point is re-played on the screen for everyone to be satisfied.
As we have seen in multiple crucial match points in cricket and tennis, DRS has become both an important and strategic asset to the playing teams. You can’t keep challenging every point in the game and hence one needs to choose judiciously the points that should be challenged.
DRS saw a lot of criticism when it was introduced in cricket. Experts believed that it could make the on field umpire a little lax in their approach. But the larger belief that to err is human finally gave way and now we rejoice triumphantly whenever Dhoni gives his nod to Virat to challenge on the on-field decision and it turns out to be right (and you thought he would easily step into non-captain’s shoes!).
I always wonder if Asad Rauf (the umpire who was charged in the IPL match fixing scandal) would have got his payment from the bookies, if there was a DRS in his times. But I did give him out, so what that they decided to review my decision?
I am a huge fan of DRS, not for the excitement of it but because of the fairness of it. Why should someone get penalised just because there was a human error of judgement? We all need second chances in life, don’t we? We can’t be held responsible for that one action of ours, which could have been made in some haste or under some hormonal impact (yes women, PMS is crazy) or just because we thought it’s a good thing to do. There must be someone who reviews our decisions, shows us what could the potential impact of this delivery would be on the wickets. Life would have been so simple, so uncomplicated and most of all, without regrets.
If you look at it deeply, we (at least the urban middle class) have started using DRS a lot. Sorry dude, I shouldn’t have married you, let’s call it quits now! I don’t find myself fit in this new job, let me find another one. I am not meant for a stable corporate job, let me try my hand at what I really like doing- stand-up comedy!
We are open to break the so-called traditional mind-set of how things are supposed to be or to be done. We are okay taking decisions, and then basis their impact, reviewing them to alter what we now think is a better way of doing it. And there are lesser eye-brows being raised around us, because the acceptability of society towards the fact that it’s okay to make mistakes, if you accept them, has grown multi-fold.
But there is a reason why there is a limit to which you can use DRS in a match, and even the time frame within which you need to decide if you need to review this decision. And that’s what one needs to be cognizant of. While it is humanly possible that all the decisions that you take, turn out to be wrong, which makes you take more decisions, the fact is that one needs to learn from the mistakes and the course correction needs to happen accordingly.
If you find yourself a misfit in each of the last 4 jobs that you have accepted, its time not to apply for the 5th one, but to reflect and think what is it that’s making you a misfit everywhere. If you are falling in love with the wrong people, it’s time to probably re-define love in your dictionary. If your loved ones are getting upset with you repeatedly, it’s time not to get into another fight with them, but to possible sit down and chalk out what’s going wrong.
It’s sad to see people taking advantage of the fact that it’s okay to make mistakes, to continue making mistakes because you know, to err is human. So, if you find yourself being stuck in the same situation over and over again, take a pause and think what’s going wrong, because something surely is. Despite your best efforts of wanting to review your decision and take an alternate route, something is making you come back to the same road and before you find yourself in middle of nowhere, stop & reflect.
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