Sachin Tendulkar, on Wednesday, benefited from the review system he had been consistently opposing while his opening partner Virender Sehwag, a huge admirer of the Decision Review System (DRS), did not in the semifinal against Pakistan at Mohali.
Tendulkar, when on 23 in the 11th over of the Indian innings, was declared out leg before to Pakistan off-spinner Saeed Ajmal by umpire Ian Gould.
He called for the DRS and got the reprieve as the available technology showed the ball would have missed the leg stump after striking his pad. In the past, Tendulkar has consistently given a thumbs-down to DRS, saying he was not fully convinced with the controversial referral system, after getting the wrong end of the stick during India's tour to Sri Lanka in 2008.
On India's next visit to the Emerald island last year, Tendulkar had said that instead of DRS, he was more in favour of the ‘Hot-Spot' technology which is an infra-red imaging system used in cricket to determine whether the ball has struck the batsman, bat or pad.
“I am not fully convinced with the referral system (DRS).
When I was here last time I was not convinced with many decisions. I did not feel comfortable, it was an experiment which I felt...,” Tendulkar had said after notching up his fifth double hundred in Tests in Colombo.
Sehwag, on the other hand, had expressed his total support to DRS in Mumbai on November 1 last year.
