KOLKATA: India Test captain Virat Kohli remains sceptical on the accuracy of ball-tracking technology but hinted India might be ready to finally embrace the Decision Review System (DRS).

The influential Indian cricket board (BCCI) has been a staunch opponent of the DRS system, which aims at reducing umpiring howlers by detecting edges and predicting ball trajectory to get correct catch and leg-before decisions.

The BCCI does not allow DRS in bilateral series involving its team but Kohli said they had been discussing the issue for a while.

“We want to definitely think about it but it’s something we have had discussion on and certainly look to probably introduce it in future,” Kohli said on the eve of the second Test against New Zealand at Eden Gardens.

“These are the things we have had meetings on. There were areas which we felt can be debated... specially the ball-tracking and the Hawk-Eye.

“We won’t take [erroneous umpiring] decisions too hard because we in the first place decided that we won’t use DRS. For us to say then that umpires made an error and it’s going against us, it’s not logical.

“Once DRS is in place, once DRS is up and running for us as well, then you can say what are the grey areas.”

Addressing media in place of New Zealand skipper Kane William­son, who is down with a bug, opener Tom Latham vouched for technology.

Published in Dawn, September 30th, 2016