In the IPL, Rohit Sharma is “not a big fan” of the impact player rule.

Rohit Sharma

Regarding the Impact Player Rule in the IPL, Rohit Sharma expressed his dissatisfaction, stating that entertainment value was being given precedence over sound cricket reasoning.

The captain of the Indian men’s cricket team and current captain of the Mumbai Indians (MI) club in the Indian Premier League (IPL), Rohit Sharma, has expressed his disapproval of the Impact Player rule in the IPL. In Indian cricket circles, he contended, the restriction stunts the growth of all-rounders. Notably, Rohit is the first well-known player among India’s prominent cricketers to publicly criticize the Impact Player rule that will be in effect for the 2023 Indian Premier League.

Essentially, teams are permitted to add a 12th player to their playing 11 at any point following the toss thanks to the Impact Player rule. Any existing member of the team may be replaced by the new player. But the team doesn’t reintroduce the player he replaced in the starting lineup once he is declared as a substitute.

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‘You are taking out so much from the game just for entertainment’: Rohit Sharma

The idea that cricket logic was giving way to entertainment value did not seem to sit well with Rohit Sharma.

“I generally feel that it is going to hold back [development of allrounders] because eventually cricket is played by 11 players, not 12 players,” Rohit said on the Club Prairie Podcast featuring former Australian wicketkeeper-batter Adam Gilchrist and ex-England captain Michael Vaughan.

“I’m not a big fan of impact player. You are taking out so much from the game just to make it little entertainment for the people around. But if you look [at] genuinely just cricketing aspect of it…. I can give you so many examples – guys like Washington Sundar, Shivam Dube are not getting to bowl, which for us [India team] is not a good thing,” he said.