Pakistan coach backs more TV help for umpires

Pakistan coach backs more TV help for umpires

Meanwhile in Karachi, Pakistan cricket coach Mudassar Nazar
and former coach and team captain Javed Miandad have backed the
International Cricket Council's move to increase the use of
technology to aid umpiring decisions.

"Umpires are under a lot of pressure due to the increased
intrusion of television in coverage of their decisions," Nazar
told Reuters on Wednesday.

"If any technology can be helpful to cricket, it can't be bad.
It must be given a chance to succeed. I don't think the
traditional role of the umpires is under any threat."

Cricket's ruling body has announced an experiment allowing
umpires to use television pictures to check any decision in the
Champions Trophy tournament in Sri Lanka in September.

It said that if the trial of allowing umpires to refer every
decision -- including contentious "leg before wicket" (lbw)
decisions or "caught behind" -- to the television umpire proved
successful, it could be carried forward.