New Delhi. From IPL 2023, BCCI has implemented some new rules in T20 tournament. Its purpose is to make the league more interesting. One of these rules is that of Impact Player. In the 16th season of the T20 league, 2 matches were played on Saturday, April 2. During this, 4 impact players were tried. But all failed to leave their impact. The batsmen could not score even a single run. And the bowlers proved to be expensive. It is known that in the first match of the day, Gujarat Titans defeated Lucknow Super Giants by 7 runs. In the second match, Punjab Kings won by 13 runs against Mumbai Indians.
Talking about the match between Gujarat Titans and Lucknow Super Giants, then Hardik Pandya’s team Titans replaced Shubman Gill as impact player off-spinner Jayand Yadav. Jayant gave 26 runs in 4 overs. He did not get any wicket. On the other hand, Lucknow tried Prekar Mankad in place of Amit Mishra. Prerak definitely came out to bat in the last over, but he could not play a single ball.
Nathan Ellis looted runs
Looking at the second match, Punjab Kings fielded fast bowler Nathan Ellis as an impact player in place of batsman Prabhsimran Singh, but Ellis could not leave any impact. He took one wicket for 44 runs in 4 overs. He was the highest run-scorer from Punjab. Although he definitely got the big wicket of Cameron Green. Green hit a quick half-century.
At the same time, Mumbai Indians sent Nehal Wadhera to bat in the last over in place of Jason Behrendorff as an impact player. But Nehal got bowled on the very first ball of Arshdeep Singh. Arshdeep gave Punjab Kings a thrilling win by taking 2 wickets in the last over.
First read breaking news in Hindi News18 Hindi| Read today’s latest news, live news updates, most reliable Hindi news website News18 Hindi.
Tags: Impact Player, IPL, IPL 2023
FIRST PUBLISHED : April 23, 2023, 10:09 IST