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.