But in the aftermath of a wildly successful and entertaining World Cup where, a couple of noteworthy exceptions aside, UDRS worked marvelously, India seem destined to remain in the stone age, or at the very least the black-and-white era of television, refusing to use a technology that every other cricketing nation has embraced. All logic, all statistics be forever damned, India and the BCCI will not consent.
And the time has come that the rest of the cricketing world stood up and turned its back on India.
It is time that England and the other powerful test nations refuse to schedule series against India until they consent to the use of UDRS. No test series, no ODIs, not even an odd t20 match to fill the crowds. Nothing. A blacklisting as severe as the one handed to South Africa in the 1970s, although for much less severe reasons.
No series in Australia, no Sri Lankan visits to Mumbai and Delhi, nothing, unless UDRS is there. If there is no Hot Spot, if there is no Hawkeye, there shall be no India. There shall be no more granting India their own set of laws.
Of course, even if the other full members banish India, there will still be stragglers. I wouldn't expect a developing nation like Ireland or a fledgling nation like Zimbabwe or Bangladesh to be willing to shut out India. The financial boon they'd receive from more regular series with the world's best and most popular national side would be too much for them to reject barring ICC sanctions against playing India, and ICC sanctions are nigh impossible.