The International Cricket Council (ICC) is all set to introduce the Decision Review System (DRS) for the first time in a World T20 in the upcoming edition scheduled to start on the 17th of October, ESPNcricinfo reported.
The tournament that is scheduled to start in UAE and Oman will be using DRS as the governing body released the playing conditions for the World Cup. Each team will get two DRS per inning.
The ICC 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.
The ICC has also decided to increase the minimum number of overs for delayed and rain-interrupted matches. Earlier, the norm was that every team will be batting for a minimum of five overs to decide the result of the game by the DLS method. This will be followed in the matches of the group stage as well. But in the semifinals and the final, the minimum overs have been increased to ten.
ICC women’s T20 world cup 2018 was the first T20 tournament that used the DRS system.
The last edition of the T20 world cup was held in 2016 when West Indies defeated England in the final and went on to lift the trophy.