Even the Poms are on our side as DRS controversy deepens England's Graeme Swann appeals on day one of the third Test against Australia at Trent Bridge. ENGLAND and Australia are for once in Ashes agreeance, in the wake of Usman Khawaja copping his shocking DRS decision. British newspapers have joined the chorus of former Australian players, Cricket Australia officials and to decry the decision to uphold Khawaja's caught behind dismissal after replays showed the Aussie number three had clearly missed the ball. At the front of the queue bemoaning yet another DRS controversy was Telegraph chief sport writer Paul Hayward, who said all the evidence pointed to Khawaja earning a reprieve after field umpire Tony Hill gave him out. How the DRS decision blew up Twitter "What the system needed least on the opening day of the Old Trafford Test was for a batsman to be given out for a phantom edge and then fail in his appeal to the third umpire on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence on which to overturn the on-field decision, even though it was wrong," Hayward wrote. Hot Spot showed no contact with the bat and the noise picked up by Snickometer might have come from bat on pad. But still the original decision stood. The Daily Mail carried a similar line, despite being more upset with a clear Steve Smith LBW that went unchallenged because the Poms had run out of reviews. Conn's comment: DRS a joke "There appeared a deflection when Khawaja played a loose shot to Graeme Swann and Hill gave him out caught behind but there was no HotSpot and it seemed Dharmasena had a good case to over-rule his colleague," they wrote. Instead he agreed with him and Australia were last night demanding clarification from the International Cricket Council over why that could be. It is hard to blame them. Sympathy flowed from The Guardian for Khawaja, who needed a break after labouring to one run from 19 balls as he attempted to cement his shaky spot in the side. " (Khawaja) can feel mightily aggrieved firstly with the decision of the New Zealand umpire Tony Hill who adjudged him to be caught behind from the bowling of Graeme Swann (although neither Jonathan Trott at slip nor indeed the bowler appeared unduly interested before the finger went up) and then, following the batsman's request for a review, with the application of the DRS process in which the third umpire, Kumar Dharmasena, failed to overturn what was clearly an erroneous decision despite the evidence," journalist Mike Selvey wrote. The best DRS howler memes The protocol demands that there be clear evidence to overturn such a decision, but although there appeared to be no contact between bat and ball, a noise that emanated from bat striking pad, no tell-tale Hot Spot mark, and later, although it had no bearing on the decision at the time, nothing but a Snicko flatline, this obviously was not deemed sufficiently conclusive. It certainly begs the question as to what exactly would be so in such a case. Aussie opener Chris Rogers believes the DRS has a place in international cricket, but has joined the chorus of baffled players, commentators and spectators questioning the Khawaja decision.