An ICC men’s T20I tournament, for the first time, will be using the Decision Review System (DRS). The world’s cricket governing body announced that the DRS will be available at the upcoming men’s T20 World Cup.

Each team will be getting a maximum of two reviews per innings, ESPNCricinfo reported. This was based on the playing conditions released by the ICC this week for the World Cup that will be played in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Oman.

In June last year, the ICC had confirmed an additional unsuccessful DRS for each team in each innings of a match across all formats. This was done “keeping in mind that there may be less experienced umpires on duty at times” due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Since the pandemic, the number of unsuccessful appeals increased per innings from one to two for white-ball cricket and three for red-ball cricket.

The ICC also decided to push the minimum number of overs for delayed and rain-interrupted matches.

In the T20 World Cup group stages, each team will be required to bat for a minimum of 5 overs for the result to be ascertained by the DLS method.

However, for the semi-finals and the final, each team will be required to bat for a minimum of 10 overs to churn out a result. This was the rule in the women’s T20 World Cup last year.

The DRS was not used in the previous edition of the event that took place in 2016. The first ICC T20I tournament to avail the services of DRS was the 2018 women’s T20 World Cup in the Caribbean. The teams had one review available to them.

The same was also used in the 2020 edition of the women’s T20 World Cup in Australia.

The DRS has been in use since 2017 in major ICC events – Champions Trophy, 50-over World Cup, World Test Championship, including the women’s ODI and T20 World Cups.