``The technology is there and it has got to be used,'' said former fast bowler and television pundit Fanie de Villiers. ``At the moment the only guy in the ground who doesn't know what's going on is the umpire. The umpiring has been shocking.''

Mervyn Kitchen's adjudication in the fourth Test was again criticised while most newspapers also carried a litany of umpiring mistakes, listing 25 instances of dubious decisions - 19 of them going against South Africa - in the series.

The Afrikaans daily, Beeld, showed a cartoon on its leader page with an umpire flipping a coin to answer an appeal by South Africans.

Former South African batsman Eddie Barlow, writing in the Cape Times, also joined the chorus calling for further use of television technology. ``Between Steve Dunne, Merv Kitchen and Javed Akhtar I have not seen so many poor decisions ever. Did they play a role? Without a doubt,'' he wrote.