After his team’s 434-run drubbing at the hands of India in Rajkot Test, England skipper Ben Stokes called for the abolition of 'umpire's call' from the DRS process.

Stokes opined that if the ball-tracking shows the ball hitting or clipping the stumps, it should be given out irrespective of what the on-field decision is.

“You just want a level playing field. The umpires have an incredibly hard job as it is, especially in India when the ball is spinning. My personal opinion is if the ball is hitting the stumps, it is hitting the stumps. They should take away 'umpire's call' if I'm being perfectly honest. I don't want to get too much into it because it sounds like we are moaning and saying that is why we lost the Test match," Stokes told TalkSPORT.

The England captain was annoyed about Zak Crawley's LBW decision in the second innings of Rajkot Test. The visuals showed that the ball might just be missing the stumps but the ball-tracking judged it as 'umpire's call'. Since the on-field decision was out, it stayed that way.

After Ben Stokes raised this issue, former England cricketer-turned-commentator Nasser Hussain once again highlighted the need to stick with umpire's call.

Earlier, Nasser had addressed India’s star batter Virat Kohli’s concerns about why the umpire’s call exists in an elaborate video.

"Technology can be fallible but I've always been very strong on the fact I like the DRS and I also like umpire's call. Look at the shemozzle with VAR in football. It's just not like that in cricket. Stokes and others like Virat Kohli may want to get rid of it but umpire's call is not there to protect the officials it's there because of the margin of error in the technology," Hussain wrote in DailyMail.

The former England captain also mentioned the new laws where the bail height for the balls clipping the stumps was increased, which might have had a role to play in Crawley's DRS showing clipping rather than missing.

"Bear in mind, also, there have been a couple of changes in the system and the ball can now clip the top of the bails.

"The lbws for Ollie Pope and Zak Crawley in the third Test did look high but they have increased the height by 1.3 centimetres.

"One thing I will agree on with Ben. He said the visual of Crawley's dismissal showed the ball missing the stumps. If that's the case you can't have that," Hussain said.

England are trailing 2-1 in the five-match series against India. The fourth Test is slated to be held in Ranchi from February 23.