The International Cricket Council has admitted to errors in the Decision Review System and is also looking at improving the system's effectiveness.
The review system has come under a lot of debate recently with decisions during the Sri Lanka-Australia and England India series.
Rahul Dravid was given out caught behind during the first ODI although the hot spot did not show and edge, making it the second instance during the series when the third umpire ruled the batsman out without any concrete evidence.
Dravid's incident came just a few days after Australian opener Phil Hughes was given out on controversial fashion with the ball tracker's accuracy being questioned this time.
Hughes was given out leg before after the tracker showed ball would gone straight on to hit the stumps after pitching but it was clear that the ball would have turned sharply and miss the stumps.
Umpire Simon Taufel, who was in Sri Lanka during the incident called it a "serious question mark against the accuracy of Hawk-Eye." Taufel and the officiating umpires also sent the footage to the ICC.
Dave Richardson, ICC General Manager of cricket, said all decisions made in Test and ODI cricket is monitored at the Dubai headquarters and admitted that "such monitoring revealed a minute number of errors in technology and that technology is not always conclusive".
Although Richardson did not confirm it, there is speculation that a meeting over the DRS errors is likely to take place during the ICC awards on September 12.
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