WEST Indies legend Joel Garner has labelled the controversial umpire decision review system currently being introduced into Test cricket “a gimmick” and claimed it is “not working”.

The review system allows each team a maximum of two unsuccessful challenges per innings against umpires’ decisions, but West Indies Cricket Board director Garner believes the use of technology in the game has gone too far.

“I can understand the use of TV technology in terms of run-outs, stumpings and that sort of thing, like whether the ball has pitched between wicket and wicket or outside leg-stump, if the umpire has doubts,” he told the Trinidad and Tobago Express.

“But not for every little thing you can think about to question the judgment of the umpire.”

He added: “You still want the umpires to use their own judgment. If you’re going to use it, it should only be used specifically for one or two things but not to question every little thing that happens with the umpires.”