IPL 2018: 4 takeaways from the opening four games

#4 The importance of DRS

The Umpires Decision Referral System made it's debut in the IPL this season and it soon became a talking point.

In the first game, CSK were tottering and it seemed as if Kedar Jadhav was out leg before but Mumbai skipper Rohit Sharma opted not to review. Few balls later, he reviewed another leg before appeal against MS Dhoni and it went his way.

It seemed as if he had made amends but it was not to be as Jadhav hit the winning runs to add more misery on the Mumbai captain.

In the third game, a Chris Woakes short ball went past Rinku Singh's bat and Kolhi straightaway went for the review, confident that he heard a noise. Replays suggested he was right and DRS prevailed.

These two incidents prove how important DRS will be in the forthcoming games.