South Africa Women test against England to have no DRS. Thus making it the only international match in SA to not have DRS.
South Africa Women will have no DRS for the one-off Test against England.
In South Africa, this is the first women’s test in twenty-two years. Out of the 21 men’s and women’s international matches that South Africa will host this summer. This match will be the only one without DRS.
This was the first season that South Africa’s women’s bilateral internationals used DRS, a multimillion-dollar technology. According to CSA, it has decided to give DRS priority in women’s white-ball internationals for the time being.
“The inclusion of the DRS for the ongoing tour against England was agreed upon at the planning stage. Noting that it will be the first time it was used for women’s bilateral tours in South Africa in recent history,” Enoch Nkwe, South Africa’s director of national teams and high performance, said in response to a query about the absence of DRS for the Test.
“The white-ball formats were prioritised with regards to DRS for this tour as it directly impacted the Proteas Women’s rankings in T20I cricket and the Women’s Championship as well as the overall CSA strategy for the senior women’s national team.
“While the development of the red-ball format is important. It is worth noting that resources are currently being directed at the white-ball formats due to the significance of ODI and T20I cricket in the current women’s international cricket landscape.”
The cost of deploying the technology was considered too high for this match during a home summer when the only profitable visit was the India men’s T20I series. This is the case even though CSA benefited from two consecutive years of visits to India and reported a profit of US$45.6 million for the most recent fiscal year.
Kerrin Klaaste and Lauren Agenbag, the match’s on-field umpires, will be officiating a Test for the first time.
Even though DRS is now standard in international cricket, some games are still played without it. DRS was only present for the Super Six stage of this year’s men’s ODI World Cup qualifiers in Zimbabwe. Neither the recently concluded Ireland Women’s tour of Bangladesh. Nor this year’s women’s T20 World Cup Qualifiers in the United Arab Emirates featured DRS.