CricPulse
DRS Review Tracker
Pick the format and log every review as it happens — successful, unsuccessful, or umpire's call. Only unsuccessful reviews cost a team its allowance, and this tracker keeps count correctly so you never have to do it in your head.
Team A
1
review remaining this innings
Team B
1
review remaining this innings
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What This Tracker Does
A review that gets overturned doesn’t cost a team anything. Neither does one that comes back umpire’s call. Only a fully unsuccessful review — where the technology backs the original on-field decision — burns one of a team’s allowance, and that allowance resets at the start of every innings, not every match. Keeping that straight in your head while also watching the game is exactly where most people lose count. This tracker does it for you: pick the format, log each review’s outcome as it happens, and the remaining count for each team updates instantly and correctly.
Reviews by Format
| Format | Unsuccessful reviews per team, per innings |
|---|---|
| ODI | 1 |
| T20I | 1 |
| Test cricket | 2 |
Want the full mechanics — the 15-second signal, who can actually call for a review, and what a scorer has to do with the ball while a review is pending? Read our complete DRS explainer.
Why Three Buttons, Not Two
Most people think of a review as either “used” or “not used”, which is exactly the mental model that causes miscounts. The category of the outcome is what determines the cost:
- Unsuccessful — the original decision is confirmed correct. Costs the team one review.
- Umpire’s call — the evidence was too close to overturn, so the on-field decision stands, but the system isn’t backing it outright either. Costs nothing.
- Successful — the original decision is overturned. Costs nothing.
That’s why a team can review three or four close shouts in a single innings under a one-review format, as long as most of them come back umpire’s call or successful — and why this tracker logs the outcome type on every entry, not just a running tally.
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CricPulse doesn’t run ball-tracking — no scoring app for club or social cricket does — but when an informal review or an umpire’s reversal does change a decision mid-match, undoing the last ball and re-entering it correctly takes seconds, with partnerships, bowling figures and the run rate recalculating automatically. Free on iOS and Android.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many DRS reviews does each team get? +
One unsuccessful review per innings in ODIs and T20Is, two unsuccessful reviews per innings in Test cricket. This tracker sets the right starting allowance automatically when you pick the format.
Does a "successful" review or an "umpire's call" cost a team a review? +
No. Only a review that comes back fully "unsuccessful" — the on-field decision stands — decrements a team's count. A review that overturns the decision, or one that comes back umpire's call, leaves the team's remaining total untouched, which is why this tracker has three separate outcome buttons instead of just "used" and "not used".
Do unused reviews carry over to the next innings? +
No, and that's exactly why this tracker has a "Start New Innings" button rather than tracking a match total. The review count resets to the full allowance at the start of every innings, regardless of how many either team had left over from the innings before.
Does this tracker save my data or sync with the CricPulse app? +
No. It runs entirely in your browser for the length of the innings you're tracking — nothing is saved, sent anywhere, or linked to a CricPulse account. Refreshing the page resets it, which is why the reset button exists for starting the next innings on purpose.
Can I use this for club or school cricket? +
Official DRS (ball-tracking, UltraEdge, a third umpire) only exists at international and major franchise-league level. If your club or league runs its own informal "player review" experiment with a set number of appeals to the umpire, though, this tracker works just as well for counting those down — just treat every overturned or umpire-upheld informal review the same way you would an official one.
What happens if I switch the format partway through? +
Changing the format dropdown resets both teams' counts to the new format's allowance and clears the innings log, since a mid-innings format change isn't something that happens in a real match — use it to set up correctly before the innings starts, not to adjust mid-way through one.
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