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Impact player’s rule in IPL may be on its way out. With a barrage of protests from all stake-holders of the game including some negative comments from India captain Rohit Sharma, BCCI may be forced to shelf the rule, sources told CricBlogger. ‘’The Impact Player’s rule could be scrapped. There are too many protests regarding this and there are talks to remove this rule,’’ a board official confirmed.
The Indian board had introduced the Impact Player rule in IPL in 2023, which allowed teams to use one substitute per match. The Impact player rule was distinctly different from regular substation rule that disallows a player from bowling or batting.
‘’Technically, it is allowing 12 players in the game that is not done,’’ former Indian cricketer Surinder Khanna said while adding that it has given a raw deal to power hitters like a Rinku Singh who didn’t get enough game time this year.
Even former international cricketer Karsen Ghavri made it clear that this rule is hampering the allrounders massively. ‘’The allrounders are competely out of the equation of this rule. Even ICC hasn’t recognised it. This isn’t a good rule and not helping cricket at all. If it continues for a long time, impact rule will finish career of lot of promising careers. The board should stop using this rule completely,” Ghavri said.
At the end of it, cricket is a game of 11 members and just to make it look more fancy, it can’t be allowed to prosper and put an end to all the excitement this format can easily produce even without Impact Player rule.
Even the high scoring games in the ongoing IPL is also connected to the Impact Player rule, wherein the team has the luxury of allowing more than a prescribed number of batters and those who who can bat are warming the bench while the real hitters like Rinku Singh aren’t getting that much game time to enhance his chance to be a part of the national team for the T20 World Cup.
Moreover, a batting allrounder like Shivam Dube also can’t get to bowl because of the Impact Player rule that allows a regular bowler to come as his replacement. In a way, the all-rounder factor is getting lost and India is suffering. Rohit Sharma too shares the same sentiment!
