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2 Responses to “Upali Dharmadasa holds the key to Sri Lanka’s claim for UDRS authorship”
Manjula says:
July 18, 2013 at 11:05 am
If ICC says they borrowed “Weeraratne rule” from Tennis in 2008, and if Tennis was using Weeraratne rule only since 2006, and if Mr. Senaka Weeraratne invented this system in 1997, then ICC do not need even a brain to understand that Mr. Senaka Weeraratne was the true author of this “Weeraratne Rule” or “Weeraratne Appeal System”.
All what ICC needs is to drop their mental weakness of the inability to acknowledge a non-white person’s achievement and to come out and show that they are in fact morally strong, or at least to “pretend” that they are morally strong.
Nicholas Dias says:
July 19, 2013 at 4:14 pm
Brilliant expose’ by Shenali of the shenanigans of the ICC in not giving due credit to Senaka Weeraratna, for his original suggestion of appealing to a ‘third umpire’ using video evidence for a review of the on-the-ground umpire’s decision.
Statisticians Duckworth and Lewis were honoured for their idea by calling it ‘Duckworth-Lewis system’, to find a winner when a game is curtailed by rain.
Likewise, Senaka should be honoured for his original idea by calling it “Weeraratna Appeal System” as Manjula suggested. ICC, in order not to give credit where credit is due, called Senaka Weeraratna’s idea “Umpire Decision Review System”. Quite a mouthful!
Is this because Mr Weeraratna is not a Caucasian white but an Asian brown? It smacks of racism. ‘We white men are superior to you Sri Lankans’.
I hope the media in the cricketing world, the SL Sports Ministry and the Cricket Board of Control in SL will pursue this matter relentlessly till Mr Weeraratna is given his due credit by naming the appeal system after him.
Thank you Shenali for exposing this injustice by ICC and by ‘batting’ for Senaka Weeraratna and for SL.