The Decision Review System to be used in men’s T20 World Cup for 1st time

The decision review system will be used for the first time at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, as the governing body has announced that the system will be available at the T20 World Cup, which starts later this month.

The ICC announced the introduction of DRS at the upcoming showpiece in the playing conditions for the event released earlier this week.

The men’s T20 World Cup will be held from October 17 to November 14.

Each team will get a maximum of two reviews per innings.

The governing body had confirmed in June last year an additional unsuccessful DRS review for each team in each innings of a match across all formats, “keeping in mind that there may be less experienced umpires on duty at times” owing to COVID-19-related reasons.

They have also decided to increase the minimum number of overs for delayed and rain-interrupted matches. During the group stages of the T20 World Cup, each team will need to bat for a minimum of five overs for the result to be decided by the DLS method. That’s the norm for any T20I currently. But for the semi-finals and the final, each team will need to bat for a minimum of 10 overs to effect a result

So, the number of unsuccessful appeals per innings for each team has increased to two in the white-ball format and three in Test matches.

DRS was not part of the earlier men’s T20 World Cups as the review system was not applicable in T20s in 2016, when the marquee event was last held.

DRS made its first appearance in an ICC T20I tournament in 2018 at the women’s T20 World Cup in the Caribbean.

The system was again used at the 2020 women’s T20 World Cup in Australia.