AUCKLAND, Sept 28: Five-day Tests would be a thing of the past if cricket made greater use of technology to rule on dismissals, New Zealand umpire Billy Bowden said on Tuesday.

He said increased use of video replays and third umpires to judge lbws (leg before wicket decisions) and catches behind would destroy one of cricket's central principals - that batsmen should always have the benefit of the doubt.

"For lbws for example, what good is technology?" Bowden said, citing a sophisticated video replay system called Hawkeye. "Are we going to use Hawkeye? ... If we do there won't be any more four- or five-day Test matches, they'd be one-or two-day Test matches." -Agencies