Former international umpire Ian Gould supports the removal of ‘umpire’s call’ from the Decision Review System (DRS). The former English cricketer is in agreement with the idea of removing  ‘umpire’s call’  and bringing a change within the DRS system.

Gould said to BBC on the same and said, “To me, you have to have DRS worldwide and if you do that, I’d take umpire’s call out. My argument is you can’t go to one place and have 37 cameras on every decision you make, then you go somewhere else and there’s only 10. It’s unfair. It doesn’t equal the game up,”

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Gould is an English former umpire who has officiated  74 Tests and 140 ODIs which includes four World Cups. The talismanic umpire retired last year in July 2019. Ian has admitted how his colleagues and fellow umpires were a bit hesitant in accepting the DRS earlier.

“If a batsman came forward and was hit on the pad, then it was not out. Then all of a sudden, you were seeing these things in front of you. That was the hard bit. When I first joined, a lot of senior umpires felt as though they were being shown up,” he said.

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Gould was the TV Umpire when the surreal events of the 2018 Newlands ball-tampering scandal happened. Ian is now busy promoting his book ‘Gunner: My Life in Cricket’,

“It was a bit surreal. There is Andy and I gazing at this TV monitor. We just sat there and went, ‘Oh dear’. That was it. It was actually about trying to collect your thoughts about what you are going to say because you have to go out to the on-field umpires and explain to them to stop the game,” he said.