New Delhi: The ICC has stated on Sunday that the Decision Review System (DRS) will be making its debut in the forthcoming men’s T-20 World Cup to be jointly hosted by UAE and Oman scheduled to start this month.
According to a report from the Press Trust of India, as part of this new system, every team will be getting a maximum of two reviews per innings.
Earlier, it was confirmed last year that an additional unsuccessful DRS for each team in an innings of a match throughout all formats of the game. This was done keeping in mind that “there may be less experienced umpires on duty at times” owing to the pandemic.
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Therefore, the number of failed appeals in an innings for a team has climbed from two in white-ball cricket to three in the longer format of the game.
DRS was not part of the last T-20 world cup held in 2016. Neither was it used in any previous men’s world cups.
However, it first appeared in 2018 in the women’s T-20 world cup in the Caribbean. It was again repeated in the women’s T-20 world cup held in Australia last year.
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