It's been pretty wild to watch the MLB go through the exact same arguments that the Cricket world went through 15 years ago when DRS was first introduced.
There’s universal agreement that DRS has massively improved cricket, but the sport was already using technology for decision-making well before DRS. In fact, Hawk-Eye was first used in cricket before gaining popularity with tennis. I’d go as far as to say cricket has been the best adopter of technology in sports for a long time.
I had to look it up. But yet, the system seems to be framed as helping the official rather than some third party to overcome a dispute. It looks like the umpires can decide to get the review on their own?
In cricket, yeah, the umpires can ask for the review themselves.
Sometimes it isn't really clear, like, if the ball is caught very close to the boundary line, given the size of the field, it can be tricky for the umpire to tell if it was caught over the boundary, representing the difference between the current batsman being caught out (meaning either the next batsman has to come take his place - assuming there are any of the 11 left) or adding 6 runs to his team's tally.
Some of the most memorable cricket games have had such situations.
It also adds some suspense to games as everyone waits on umpires to review data to make their call.
The game will be fine.