Impact Player — a tussle between evolution and a level-playing field
Followers of the Indian Premier League will identify Vikram Solanki as the Director of Cricket with Gujarat Titans, the champions on debut in 2022. The Udaipur-born Solanki, who celebrated his 49th birthday on Tuesday, played 51 ODIs and three T20Is for England between 2000 and 2007 with modest returns, but he will go down in history books as the first ‘Super Sub’ in international cricket. The prime example of a concussion sub emerging as one of the leading batters for his country is Marnus Labuschagne, the first such player in Test cricket when he came on to replace an injured Steve Smith, who was struck on his helmet by Jofra Archer in the Lord’s Test of August 2019. In a more nuanced variant of the discarded Super Sub, the IPL permitted the use of an Impact Player from the 2023 edition onwards. So, in many ways, it makes it very exciting for people.” Bobat’s loyalty is to RCB, as it must be, and he isn’t particularly fussed about how the Impact clause affects Indian cricket per se.
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