Former England captain Michael Vaughan asked for transparency in the decision-making process by the Hawk-Eye after England batter Joe Root’s controversial dismissal on Day 3 of the fourth Test between India and England at Ranchi. With a magnificent hundred in the first innings, the veteran was important to their innings. However, when batting on 11, Root was adjudged LBW off Ravichandran Ashwin when it was seen that the ball appeared to be pitching outside the leg stump.

In his column for The Telegraph, Vaughan wrote: “So here is a simple solution to help improve transparency and accountability: stick a camera and microphone in the truck so as that a decision is being made, we all know exactly what is going on, and how much humans are involved. And if you stick an ICC official in there as well we would know that the integrity – something we talk so much about in the game – is intact. You could argue that those running the technology in the truck are as important as the two standing umpires.”

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However, unfortunately for England, Joe Root’s dismissal saw them reduced from 65/3 to 145 all-out as well. India will resume their second innings on 40/0, requiring a further 152 runs to take an unassailable 3-1 series lead as well. Meanwhile, Michael Vaughan said that social media was a great indicator of the lack of trust in the technology making crucial decisions to decide the importance of transparency in decision-making.

“It only takes one look at social media to see that a lot of people do not trust it. There is so much anger and suspicion about decisions that go for or against certain teams. There is suspicion about host broadcasters and who is in the truck. That is despite the technology companies not actually being from the same country as the host broadcaster. For instance, Hawk-Eye is a company from the UK but being used in this series. They are just brought in by the host broadcaster,” wrote Vaughan.