Cook wants correct referral decisions

Following on from the previous Burble about referrals, interesting to see the way Alastair Cook's comments have been reported in The Metro this morning. The title of the article by Cook says "Referral system just isn't working, so let's scrap it". He goes on to say:

"If the third umpire cannot use the full range of technology then the referral system should be scrapped."

That's a whole different comment and one that I've burbled about before - it's clearly insane to allow TV viewers access to technology that the 3rd umpire can't look at. But that's a problem of implementation - Cook isn't stupid and I don't think he would really think you can scrap the use of technology for good. It will keep coming back until it's eventually implemented properly.

Again, repeating previous Burbles the "human error" factor can be eliminated all together from LBWs - use Hawkeye or similar to show where the ball would have hit and then allow for a suitable amount of error. So for example, you might only give a batsman out if no part of the ball is outside of the outside of the off or leg stump, or over the top of the bails.

The ICC seem to have caught up with the correct objective - reducing the number of wrong decisions. They have belatedly realised that they can use technology to reach that objective. How long will it take them to come up with the right implementation plan? On current form, many years.