India have agreed to use DRS for the upcoming Test series against England on a

"trial basis" to "evaluate the improvements made" in the system. India had
played in the first series with umpire reviews, against Sri Lanka in 2008, but this
will be their first bilateral contest since then with all the components of the DRS including ball-tracking technology - in place.

"We are happy to note that Hawk-Eye has institutionalised all the
recommendations made by BCCI, and we confirm that this improved version of
DRS will be used on a trial basis during the forthcoming series against England,"
the BCCI president Anurag Thakur said. "Based on the performance of the system
and the feedback that we will receive, further continuation in forthcoming series
will be decided."

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One of India's biggest concerns with the DRS, the predicted path of the ball after
it hits the pad in the case of lbw decisions, will be addressed by the use of ultramotion cameras. The manual intervention in determining the point of impact will
be minimised by the introduction of Ultra Edge, which according to a BCCI
release had been approved by Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]. It will
also eliminate the possibility of another touch after the first impact affecting the
predicted path or point of impact.

"Earlier, there was a possibility that the operator would have missed a delivery
and hence an lbw appeal could have been missed," the BCCI release said. "Now,
Hawk-Eye has developed the technology to record and save all images so that in
case an operator fails to arm the tracking system, the images can be rewound
and replayed."

Since their first experience with the system in its nascent stages, India were the
biggest opponents of the DRS. The only times India used it since that 2008 series
was in ICC events and in one Test series against England in 2011. In that series,
the DRS was not used for lbw decisions.

The BCCI's sustained refusal to use the DRS meant that other countries would
not use the system only when playing India. The board rarely articulated its

opposition to the system in detail; India's former Test captain MS Dhoni used to
say they would use DRS only when it was 100% accurate.

The current India coach Anil Kumble, who is also the head of the ICC cricket
committee, had made a visit to MIT before he took over the India job to be
apprised of the latest developments in the DRS technology. During the recent
series against New Zealand, India's current Test captain Virat Kohli had said India
"definitely wanted to think about DRS", which was the first significant departure
from their previous stance.