{"id":84112,"date":"2022-01-14T07:02:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T07:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=84112"},"modified":"2022-01-14T07:02:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T07:02:40","slug":"slc-lets-down-sri-lanka-by-ignoring-lankanaes-claim-for-authorship-of-udrs-by-shenali-d-waduge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/slc-lets-down-sri-lanka-by-ignoring-lankanaes-claim-for-authorship-of-udrs-by-shenali-d-waduge\/","title":{"rendered":"SLC lets down Sri Lanka by ignoring Lankan\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;s claim for authorship of UDRS-by Shenali D Waduge"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">SLC lets down Sri Lanka by ignoring Lankan\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;s claim for authorship of UDRS-by Shenali D Waduge<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #800080;\">Source:<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2013\/12\/19\/slc-lets-down-sri-lanka-by-ignoring-lankans-claim-for-authorship-of-udrs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lankaweb<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Is it jealousy or simply a couldn\u2019t care less attitude that stops a country from taking up a just cause on behalf of one\u2019s own countryman who has been engaged in a lone battle almost single handedly to claim public recognition of his authorship of the player \u2013 referral rule which underlies the Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS) used not only in cricket but in other sports as well. All that the country, its Sports Ministry and in particular the Sri Lanka Cricket Board needs to do is to officially request the ICC \u201d cricket\u2019s world\u2019s governing body to disclose who the true author of the UDRS is or carry out an investigation taking into account Senaka Weeraratna\u2019s evidence shown through publications over the years commencing in March 1997.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0Why have both the ICC and Sri Lanka Cricket failed to do either? Why is the UDRS not named after the name of its author as the Duckworth and Lewis rule is? Is it the discomfort of naming an innovative cricket rule after a non \u201d white the main problem? \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<b>Arguments by Senaka Weeraratna to claim UDRS authorship<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">May 1997 Senaka Weeraratna submited the initial player referral proposal to former President of Cricket Board \u201d Mr. Upali Dharmadasa requesting the SLC to forward proposal to ICC as ICC does not accept individual proposals. SL Cricket officials failed to table the proposal at the ICC meeting held in July 1997 as requested by Mr. Weeraratna. Official records of the Cricket Board should be able to confirm receipt of this proposal in 1997.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Mr. Upali Dharmadasa has admitted receipt of proposal sent by Senaka Weeraratna in May 1997 in an interview given to sports journalist Mr. Saadi Thawfeek (Sunday Nation \u2013 22 June 2008). In the interview Mr. Dharmadasa informed that he had instructed Board of Cricket CEO Mr. Tryphon Mirando to study the proposal and submit a report to the Board. Mr. Dharmadasa\u2019s term ended in 1998 and Mr. Weeraratna\u2019s proposal was totally forgotten. This default and gross negligence on the part of the Board of Cricket Control of Sri Lanka (predecessor of Sri Lanka Cricket) has cost Mr. Senaka Weeraratna an inestimable loss in establishing his claim to authorship of the \u2018player referral\u2019 mechanism vis a vis the ICC and deprived Sri Lanka of the honour and glory that a country gains due to the innovation of a product by one of its sons that is widely accepted and applied universally in the cricket world.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">25 March 1997 \u201d Senaka Weeraratna\u2019s letter to the Editor of \u2018The Australian\u2019 ( Australia\u2019s National Newspaper) titled \u2018Third Umpire should perform role of Appeal Judge\u2019 highlighted main elements \u00a0of the proposed \u2018 player referral\u2019 rule\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">2 May 1997 \u201d the article in the \u2018Australian\u2019 was republished in the Times of London<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sriexpress.com\/articles\/item\/476-authorship-of-the-udrs-evidence-in-the-london-times-may-2,-1997.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.sriexpress.com\/articles\/item\/476-authorship-of-the-udrs-evidence-in-the-london-times-may-2,-1997.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.asiantribune.com\/node\/64045\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.asiantribune.com\/node\/64045<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">9 May 1997 \u201d Pakistan\u2019s \u2018Dawn\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">6 Apr 1997 \u201d Melbourne \u2018Sunday Age\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Malaysian New Strait Times \u201d May 1997<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The International Cricketer (United Kingdom) Magazine \u201d May 1997<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">6 April 1997 \u201d Sunday Times, Sri Lanka and several other newspapers in Sri Lanka<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/tube-proxy.com\/nph-proxified.cgi\/20\/http\/sundaytimes.lk\/970406\/let2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/tube-proxy.com\/nph-proxified.cgi\/20\/http\/sundaytimes.lk\/970406\/let2.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">20 February 1999 \u201d The \u2018Weekend Australian\u2019 published article by Senaka Weeraratna titled \u2018A Spectators Appeal: Reform Cricket Umpiring\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">1 Mar 1999 \u201d Fuller version of above article published in Northern Territory News, Darwin, Australia<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">2 Mar 1999 \u201d Fuller version of above article published in Sri Lanka \u2018Daily News\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">14 March 1999 \u201d Sunday Island, Sri Lanka<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">7 Jun 1999 \u201d \u2018Time\u2019 Magazine<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 21 March 2003 \u2013\u00a0 \u2018<b>The field umpire\u2019s immunity limits appeal rights\u2019 \u2018Sunday Island\u2019\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><b><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.island.lk\/2003\/03\/21\/sports08.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.island.lk\/2003\/03\/21\/sports08.html<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><b>Further evidence:<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Moreover Wikipedia has also acknowledged and published the claims of Senaka Weeraratna<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"blocked::http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Umpire_Decision_Review_System\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Umpire_Decision_Review_System\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Umpire_Decision_Review_System<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">UDRS \u201d the Sri Lankan Connection\u00a0by Cricket Observer \u2018Daily News\u2019 Feb. 19, 2011<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.lk\/2011\/02\/19\/spo25.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.dailynews.lk\/2011\/02\/19\/spo25.asp<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><b>Despite lack of acknowledgement from official quarters there have been people who have supported Senaka Weeraratna\u2019s claim:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Robert Steen,\u00a0senior lecturer in sports journalism at the University of Brighton, England and reputed cricket commentator, in an insightful article on the \u2018Cricinfo\u2019 website under the title \u2018Will the UDRS be proved a good thing?\u2019 (Feb. 9, 2011) referred to the Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS) as one of the most potentially far-reaching concepts the old game has ever known, and added as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/magazine\/content\/story\/499969.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/magazine\/content\/story\/499969.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<i>\u201d\u009d LET\u2019S REWIND to the hotly contested conception of the review system, for which Senaka Weeraratna, a lawyer, believes we must thank\/berate him \u201d and not, repeat not, the ICC.\u201d\u009d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0Steen adds He\u00a0<i>(Senaka Weeraratna) has been arguing for some time, and with some vehemence, that it was his letter to Colombo\u2019s Sunday Times, on April 6, 1997, the first of many such that sowed the seeds. In an ocean of common sense, that letter likened the players\u2019 right to challenge to the appeal of a \u201cdissatisfied litigant\u201d\u009d.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">As Simon Barnes put it recently in the Times: \u201cReferral is not dissent, it is a legitimate process of truth-seeking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0Robert Steen in another article based on a comprehensive survey done on all aspects of UDRS under the title Going upstairs: The decision review system \u201cvelvet revolution or thin edge of an ethical wedge? published in \u201cSport in Society Journal (Vol. 14, Issue 10, 2011) re-iterated the above as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u201cSenaka Weeraratna, a Sri Lankan-born lawyer .., maintains that it was his 1997 letter to\u00a0<i>The Australian<\/i>, the first of many, which planted the seeds for what became the DRS.\u00a0In writing it, illuminatingly, he likened the players\u2019 right to challenge umpires to the appeal of a dissatisfied litigant.\u201d (Allow appeals to the Third Umpire, Letters to the Editor, The Australian, 25 March 1997 (copy sent by author; referred to at<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><b><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/sundaytimes.lk\/060528\/sports\/6.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/sundaytimes.lk\/060528\/sports\/6.html<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">In August 2008 officials of Sri Lanka cricket personally handed to David Richardson, then General Manager of the ICC a folder full of publications by Senaka Weeraratna on the subject of player referral but Mr. Richardson did not give Mr. Weeraratna a meeting to present his case. Mr. Richardson as CEO of ICC is now claiming the UDRS system is borrowed from tennis. This claim is easily nullified because the use of video replay in tennis began in 2006 using Hawkeye technology and adjudication in tennis is determined by line call.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0The ICC ran trials for the new player referral system in November 2008 without identifying the author of the system. With the file of every aspect of the UDRS explained by Mr. Senaka Weeraratna in the dossier handed to Mr. Richardson in August 2008 completely ignoring to honor the Sri Lanka author boils down to nothing but to intellectual dishonesty, violation of copyright and fraud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0What needs to be argued is that the UDRS did not fall from the sky. The system had to be conceived by a human mind or minds. If it is not Senaka Weeraratna \u201d who is the author? The cricket world deserves to know. This is the question that any self \u201d respecting nation and particularly its governing Cricket Board is morally obliged to ask the ICC given the strong claims made by a local country man and in his defence. The failure to do so on the part of Sri Lanka\u2019s Ministry of Sports and Sri Lanka Cricket is tantamount to a dereliction of public duty and betrayal of Sri Lanka\u2019s national interests.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0The Duckworth-Lewis rule for rain affected games was attributed to 2 English statisticians Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis, who came up with the formula to calculate which team was in the lead at the time of rain interrupting the game. Stuart Robertson, the former Marketing Manager, England and Wales Cricket Board, has been hailed as the founder of the Twenty 20 Cricket format. The rule thus was Christened by their names.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">We would like to know why has the UDRS yet to be christened in gratitude to the author given that UDRS has been in use since November 2009? We are also wondering whether it is because the author is non-white that the ICC is adapting a very colonial attitude to simply brushing off the claims of a non \u201d white without doing the decent thing of conducting an investigation, calling all those who are claiming authorship to provide evidence and thereafter determining who the real author is. This should not be such a difficult thing to do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0It is immoral for the singers to be using the song totally ignoring the composer. Both Sri Lanka Cricket and the ICC are guilty in this respect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0The fact is that the singer cannot sing the song without acknowledging the composer and therefore cricket being a gentleman\u2019s game it is only fair that if the ICC is not willing to accept Upali Dharmadasa\u2019s acknowledgement or the present Board\u2019s submission for Weeraratna\u2019s claim of authorship an impartial inquiry conducted by a competent third party arbitrator should be held to ascertain who the composer of the UDRS system is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">It is said that the\u00a0late Tony Greig had advised Senaka Weeraratna that to get the ball rolling it is the Sri Lankan State and Sri Lanka Cricket Board that must take up the cause with the ICC with full legal backing.\u00a0Their failure in this instance is tantamount to a dereliction of national duty and let down of the huge cricket fan base in the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0Simply because a person does not have the legal means or large scale financial resources or clout to press a case against use of his intellectual property should not mean that international corporate bodies such as the ICC and Sri Lanka Cricket should ignore and not take up the case where the prestige of awarding an internationally accepted referral system would bring pride not only to the author but to the entire nation. Is it not on this premise that the Sports Minister\/Ministry, officials of Sri Lanka Cricket including former Cricketers take up this long overdue claim for justice on behalf of a fellow Sri Lankan, Senaka Weeraratna.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SLC lets down Sri Lanka by ignoring Lankan\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;s claim for authorship of UDRS-by Shenali D Waduge Source:Lankaweb Is it jealousy or simply a couldn\u2019t care less attitude that stops a country from taking up a just cause on behalf of one\u2019s own countryman who has been engaged in a lone battle almost single handedly to 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