'Unlucky' Cowan bats for DRS in India-Australia series

Australia's Ed Cowan walks off after his dismissal on the first day of the first Test against India at the MCG. (AFP Photo)

MELBOURNE: He batted as if he was born to play Test cricket.

Debutant Ed Cowan, who is in the form of his life, hardly put a foot wrong during his 294-minute knock of 68 at the MCG on Monday before being controversially given out caught behind off R Ashwin by umpire Ian Gould.

He hid his disappointment well at end of the day's play with a smart take on the issue.

Asked whether he had nicked the ball, Cowan smiled, saying, "It was a bit of a lazy shot ... you saw the replays, you saw my reaction, you can join the dots I guess."

Cowan took the opportunity to lend his voice to the growing demand for the Umpire Decision Review System ( DRS) in all series.

"As someone who loves his cricket and has watched a lot of cricket, I just don't understand why it (DRS) can't be handed down by the ICC to be uniform in all games. And that's me speaking as an outsider, not as someone who has been in the bubble for a long time. It is an interesting one, we'll see how it pans out, I'm sure it'll even itself out over the course of the series," Cowan said.

Cowan also empathized with his teammate Michael Hussey, whom umpire Marias Erasmus adjudged to be caught behind off Zaheer Khan.

"I feel for any batsman when he gets out. It's a bit of a gut-wrenching experience, doesn't matter whether it is first ball or when you're 150. Of course, I was disappointed for him," said Cowan.

He also pointed out that the two umpiring decisions completely changed the momentum of the game.

"It was a massive moment in the game. We'd just had a 100-run partnership and had wrestled back the momentum with another nearly 50-run partnership. We were probably half an hour away from really nailing them, grinding them into the dust. Today the momentum went against us because we lost two of our top-six, but that's the game and we'll take the good with the bad," Cowan added.

The Tasmanian admitted that he was surprised by his own lack of nerves on his debut.

"Strangely, I was not nervous, I can't explain why. I was a little anxious when we won the toss and batted, but no more than what we would've felt playing state cricket for Tasmania at the Bellerive Oval." I should've been a lot more nervous, I had to keep pinching myself to think 'mate you should be more nervous here, more anxious', but being relaxed really helped me through it and it felt like another bat-on-ball contest," he said.

Asked why he was took so much time to get going, Cowan said: "It didn't really feel like I was slow to get going. It felt like a new-ball wicket so in the first hour I was looking to leave the ball or play it late. It just felt like I was playing well. The runs came after lunch when they probably didn't bowl as well as they wanted to. But when they did bowl well it was hard to score."

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