England's Taylor stranded amid DRS drama

James Taylor suffered an agonising end to his innings in their first Cricket World Cup match against Australia in Melbourne today.

Poised on the brink of an excellent maiden international century, but left with only the No. 11, James Anderson, for company, he was given out leg before to Josh Hazlewood for 98.

While he reviewed the decision successfully - Hawk-Eye suggested the ball would have missed leg stump - it was all to no avail: more replays showed that Anderson, backing up desperately, did not reach the striker's end before Glenn Maxwell threw down the stumps with a direct hit.

Taylor had been given out, reprieved and left stranded all from the same delivery. The dismissal also raised the question about whether the ball should have been considered dead, regardless of the intervention of the Umpire Decision Review System, abbreviated as UDRS or DRS.

DRS is a technology-based system used in the sport of cricket. The system was first introduced in Test cricket, for the sole purpose of reviewing controversial decisions made by the on-field umpires in the case of whether or not a batsman had been dismissed.

With information from ESPNcricinfo.com