<p>Ponting's comments came after ICC match referee Chris Broad said that the Decision Review System needs fine-tuning.<br />"If you look at it like that, it's probably the most disappointing aspect of the whole thing. It's a shame to be basically trialling something like this at the top level.<br /><br />"There's got to be enough cricket going on around the world to have a look at it without using it in Test matches," Ponting told 'The Australian'.<br />Merits of the DRS are being debated after some controversial decisions in the Adelaide Test between Australia and the West Indies.<br />English Umpire Mark Benson had left the series mid-way after his decision of ruling Shivnarine Chanderpaul not out got overturned on the first day.<br />He went back to his country citing illness and has since denied that he left in protest against the DRS.<br />Ponting had also spoken to the umpires after the Test but did not reveal the details.<br /><br />"The talk went well. I think they appreciated the fact of me coming to talk to them and getting their feedback about the whole thing. I don't really want to go into detail of what we talked about," he said.<br /><br />"It was just for me to find out how they're handling it because they're the most important people in the whole thing and they're the ones who are left out.<br />"It's important to know whether they feel it's taking some of the responsibility away from them . . . whether it's lightening their workload or making it harder," Ponting said.<br /><br />"The main thing that's come out of all of it is how much we've learnt to rely on technology," he added.<br />Former umpires Dickie Bird and Darrell Hair have both criticised the system.<br />However, Sri Lanka skipper Kumar Sangakkar had demanded that the system be applied in all the Tests after losing the third and final match against India in Mumbai.</p>
<p>Ponting's comments came after ICC match referee Chris Broad said that the Decision Review System needs fine-tuning.<br />"If you look at it like that, it's probably the most disappointing aspect of the whole thing. It's a shame to be basically trialling something like this at the top level.<br /><br />"There's got to be enough cricket going on around the world to have a look at it without using it in Test matches," Ponting told 'The Australian'.<br />Merits of the DRS are being debated after some controversial decisions in the Adelaide Test between Australia and the West Indies.<br />English Umpire Mark Benson had left the series mid-way after his decision of ruling Shivnarine Chanderpaul not out got overturned on the first day.<br />He went back to his country citing illness and has since denied that he left in protest against the DRS.<br />Ponting had also spoken to the umpires after the Test but did not reveal the details.<br /><br />"The talk went well. I think they appreciated the fact of me coming to talk to them and getting their feedback about the whole thing. I don't really want to go into detail of what we talked about," he said.<br /><br />"It was just for me to find out how they're handling it because they're the most important people in the whole thing and they're the ones who are left out.<br />"It's important to know whether they feel it's taking some of the responsibility away from them . . . whether it's lightening their workload or making it harder," Ponting said.<br /><br />"The main thing that's come out of all of it is how much we've learnt to rely on technology," he added.<br />Former umpires Dickie Bird and Darrell Hair have both criticised the system.<br />However, Sri Lanka skipper Kumar Sangakkar had demanded that the system be applied in all the Tests after losing the third and final match against India in Mumbai.</p>
