Dilshan makes first successful referral

I'm sure it won't have escaped the attention of you cricket fans that the first two referrals by India against Sri Lanka were turned down, but that Sri Lanka's first referral, by Dilshan when given out caught behind, was over-turned. Dilshan was on 1 at the time and went on to make 125 not out - one of four centurions for Sri Lanka as they racked up 600 for 6 declared.

The umpire in question was Mark Benson who I see is from my home town of Shoreham-by-sea having looked at his profile on Cricinfo. Perhaps one day I'll run into him and be able to ask him about his views as he seems to regret the fact that technology is being used from his comments. He has been quoted as saying "Personally, I like a game like baseball, which turns over more money than cricket does and doesn't use one ounce of technology when the umpire makes a decision. If they get it right, they get it right; and if they get it wrong, so be it. Nothing is ever overturned. But we allowed technology to come in, so now we have got to work with it, make the best of it."

As has been discussed before on Cricket Burble, there's no blame attached to an umpire who makes a wrong decision as it would be impossible to get every decision right, but his view seems to suggest he is ok with wrong decisions being made and sees it as part of the game. I'd be very happy that technology was there to help me if it had helped me avoid the feeling of guilt from giving a guy out wrongly on 1, who then went on to make an unbeaten century. It would be interesting to know if his view has changed at all now having been through the process....