After Rohit Sharma, Zaheer Khan speaks out against Impact player rule: ‘You will find half all-rounders not a…’
Dale Steyn in awe of MS Dhoni's batting in IPL 2024: 'I don't watch lot of TV, but…' Zaheer Khan while agreeing with the Indian captain's contention in an interaction with JioCinema stated, "I completely agree it's debatable, little concern for sure. But we need to find a way on how to deal with it.
In Impact Player rule you will find half all-rounders but not a complete one," BCCI had introduced the impact player rule in 2023, allowing teams to bring in a 12th player from the list of five names, provided they win the toss. The controversial rule allows an IPL team to replace an existing player at any point in the match and bring in an impact player in his place.
India captain Rohit Sharma, who will take charge of the national side for the upcoming T20 World Cup in June, had spoken out against the rule in an episode of the Club Prairie Fire podcast. "I genuinely feel it is going to hold back the development of all-rounders because eventually cricket is played by 11 players, not 12.
So I am not a big fan of the Impact Player Rule because you are taking so much from the game just to make it a little more entertaining for the people around you. But just in the cricketing aspect of it, I feel guys like Washington Sundar, and Shivam Dube are not getting to bowl, which is not a good thing for us (India).
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