Cricket's governing body to launch independent test of review system Michael Clarke and Brad Haddin call for an umpire's review during last year's Ashes series The International Cricket Council is set to launch an independent study into the accuracy of DRS technology. The testing will cover all the tools that make up the contentious Decision Review System, including ball-tracking technology, Hot Spot and Snicko, with the ultimate goal of having a consistent system that is used in all matches. At the moment, India refuses to use the DRS in bilateral series so there will be no referral system when Australia hosts India for four Tests this summer. The project, which is expected to be undertaken at a university in the United States although no agreement has been reached, is yet to get under way, but the results of the testing are expected to influence key decisions about the future of the DRS, such has how lbw decisions are judged and how many referrals are allowed for each team. "We have a working group that is looking at the use of technology in umpiring and its aim is to get the best system using technology that we can," said the ICC's general manager of cricket operations, Geoff Allardice. The first step in that process is to understand how accurate the technology is that we're using today. Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland this week expressed confidence that progress was being made towards universal acceptance of the contentious ball-tracking system after the DRS was discussed at ICC meetings in Dubai. Sachin Tendulkar supports a referral system as long as the same tools are adopted in all parts of the world, but the crux of the BCCI's opposition has been that it lacks confidence in the technology. "I don't know right now what BCCI's stance is," Tendulkar said in London last week. "From an individual point of view, I can definitely say that we can't have bits and pieces in different parts of the world," Tendulkar said in London last week.