A new change in the Decision Review System (DRS) could be a total game changer. Players will be able to use DRS to review wide and no-ball verdicts for the first time in a T20 competition. The Women’s Premier League (WPL) was the first league to use this DRS adjustment, and the IPL will soon follow.
In the upcoming Women’s IPL, two such incidences occurred. Jemimah Rodrigues reviewed for a ball to be called a no-ball during the match between Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bangalore. The other happened during match 3 of the WPL between Gujarat Giants and UP Warriorz.
Jemimah reviews a no ball
Jemimah Rodrigues, who hit an unassisted 22 during the DC innings, utilized the Decision Review System (DRS) to challenge a waist-high no-ball. The unique occurrence occurred in the last over when Jemimah knelt down to block Megan Schutt’s delivery and attempted to slog the ball to the leg side.
Jemimah connected the ball on the full while squatting on one knee and far higher than her waist. Jemimah contested the umpire’s ruling and sent the ball upstairs to be scrutinized since the field umpire did not declare it a waist-high no-ball.
Grace Harris reviews a wide
The last over of the match was filled with drama with 19 runs needed off 6 balls. Harris hit a six to make it 13 off 5. Sutherland bowls wide on the second delivery which Sneh Rana immediately reviewed. It is referred to as broad. Rana requested a review. It was a very close call that went with the batting team. That is perhaps barely outside the marker but precisely on it.
When six runs were needed off, Sutherland bowls a length ball outside the off stump and Harris fails to connect. She immediately reviewed for a wide and got the decision in favor of her. Looking back, these two decisions were pivotal to the result of the match.
This review system could be a little mess because to overturn the decision of an umpire, another umpire is being asked to give his verdict instead of the technology giving the result. The decision to give a wide would be totally subjective and according to the perspective of the umpire.
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