Chennai Super Kings and Gujarat Titans made use of the Impact Player Rule in the opening match of Indian Premier League 2023 at Narendra Modi Stadium. The Impact Player has been introduced in the ongoing season of IPL for the first time in the tournament’s history as CSK became the first team to use it. The four-time IPL champions used it right after their innings and chose Tushar Deshpande to replace Ambati Rayudu.
Umpire Saiyed Khalid made the signal for the Impact Player Rule for the first time which also went viral on social media.
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Umpire enacting impact player sign#GTvsCSK pic.twitter.com/S8OzjMhEQF— Niteesh21 (@niteesh28) March 31, 2023
So the umpire has to do a Wakanda Forever sign for impact player?#IPLlive— Vikram Mohan (@TheVikramMohan) March 31, 2023
Djs in the ground pls play malama pitha pithadhe song while umpire signal for impact player— Achhu (@Achhyuthaa) March 31, 2023
Tushar Deshpande comes in as impact player in place of Ambati Rayudu ???? umpire doing mersal vijay style to signal impact player???? yov balaji????— Sri~ (@Sri_8691) March 31, 2023
Meanwhile, Gujarat Titans also used the Impact Player by choosing Sai Sudharshan to replace injured Kane Williamson. Sudharshan came out to bat at number 3 and scored crucial 22 runs. Williamson hurt his knee in the attempt to save a six in the first innings. The premier New Zealand batter looked in extreme discomfort after landing on the surface and as the Gujarat Titans medical staff took him out of the middle.
Deshpande was among the five substitute players named by CSK after the toss. The others were Subhranshu Senapati, Shaik Rasheed, Ajinkya Rahane and Nishant Sindhu.
On the other hand, Gujarat Titans had named Jayant Yadav, Mohit Sharma, Abhinav Manohar, K.S. Bharat besides B. Sai Sudharsan as their substitutes.
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The Impact Player rule is implemented for the first time in this year’s edition of the tournament after the Board for Cricket Control in India (BCCI) tested it out during the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy tournament.
CSK skipper Dhoni at the toss talked about the Impact Player rule as he suggested that the all-rounder’s influence will become less with its introduction.
“It’s a luxury to have (impact player). It becomes slightly easy to take the decision because you can use it at any time. Influence of all-rounder has become slightly less because of the rule," Dhoni said at the toss.
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