With the effects of COVID-19 on border closures preventing the transportation of review system technology last summer, the Big Bash League will finally implement DRS this coming season.
The domestic competition, which will restart in mid-December, is yet to utilise DRS, despite the revolutionary technology’s introduction to the ICC three years prior to the BBL’s inaugural edition.
While this is a massive win for supporters of the system, teams will be restricted to one review per innings to save time during the shortened format.
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According to The Sydney Morning Herald, teams will get one unsuccessful review each, consistent with the regulations followed in most other Twenty20 domestic leagues.
Only the Indian Premier League, which provided teams two unsuccessful reviews per innings at this year’s tournament, has allowed more elbow room for referrals.
Captains will have 15 seconds after a delivery is made to request a review of the umpire’s decision, with a successfully overturned review seeing the challenging side retain its review.
With the BBL’s 61-match fixture spread across 14 venues with multiple games being played in different locations on the same day, the logistical undertaking of transporting equipment and operators is going to be enormous for Cricket Australia.
But hard work has its rewards and, hopefully, this materialises as fewer howlers this summer.
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