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QUESTION 16
GS3
10 marks

What do you understand by Umpire Decision Review System in cricket? Discuss its various components. Explain how silicone tape on the edge of a bat may fool the system.

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What the examiner wants

Discuss the exact proposition in the PYQ — “What do you understand by Umpire Decision Review System in cricket? Discuss its various components. Explain how silicone tape on the edge of a bat may fool the system.” — using concept/chronology or mechanism, evidence on both sides where relevant, and a conclusion that answers the directive rather than merely describing UDRS.

Discuss · ExplainAnswer exactly what the question asks.

Demand-wise check

  1. 1For the prompt cue ‘What do you understand by Umpire Decision Review System in cricket? Discuss its various components. Explain how silicone tape on t’, directly answer: What do you understand by Umpire Decision Review System in cricket?≈45 words
  2. 2For the prompt cue ‘What do you understand by Umpire Decision Review System in cricket? Discuss its various components. Explain how silicone tape on t’, directly answer: Discuss its various components≈45 words
  3. 3For the prompt cue ‘What do you understand by Umpire Decision Review System in cricket? Discuss its various components. Explain how silicone tape on t’, directly answer: Explain how silicone tape on the edge of a bat may fool the system≈45 words

Open in about 30 words and close in about 30.

Answer plan

Define/contextualise UDRSExplain mechanism/chronologyQuestion-specific evidence/examplesImplicationsConcise conclusion

Where marks usually go

  • For the prompt cue ‘What do you understand by Umpire Decision Review System in cricket? Discuss its various components. Explain how silicone’, avoid a generic note on UDRS; answer the actual wording/directive and the UDRS proposition
  • For the prompt cue ‘What do you understand by Umpire Decision Review System in cricket? Discuss its various components. Explain how silicone’, do not add examples around UDRS unless they prove, qualify or rebut the proposition asked

Value addition

  • 3-box flow: concept/context → core argument/evidence → implication/way forward
    → Draw it in the body, next to the point it supports.

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