New Delhi, Sep 3 - Former International umpire Peter Willey believes that umpires will lose their ability to make decisions because of the reliance on technology that will follow the introduction of the referral system to all international cricket next month.

'There is a further problem that has arisen from the increased use of technology that international umpires have told me about. Umpires who have done Tests for five or six years have lost the art of giving out run-outs and stumpings - they just refer everything,' Willey was quoted as saying in this issue of The Wisden Cricketer magazine.

'If you have all the technology for a number of years, you are going to lose the art of giving out caught-behinds, lbws and everything else because the third umpire is doing everything.'

'The umpire will end up hardly having to make a decision.