BCCI permits use of two bouncers in a single over for IPL 2024 season© Twitter
A giant rule change has reportedly been launched by the Indian Premier League (IPL) authorities forward of the beginning of the public sale in Dubai. From the following season onwards, the IPL is ready to permit bowlers to bowl two bouncers per over, making the competition between the bat and the ball extra aggressive. The rule was effectively examined by the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) within the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, a home T20 match in India. It’s now set to be carried out within the IPL 2024 season.
A report in ESPNCricinfo acknowledged that the rule has already been authorized and is ready to be carried out within the subsequent season. Indian pacer Jyadev Unadkat is happy by this rule change.
“I do really feel two bouncers an over could be very a lot helpful, and I really feel it is a kind of issues which provides the bowler an added benefit over batsmen,” Unadkat instructed ESPNcricinfo. “As a result of, for instance, if I bowl a slower bouncer… the batsman within the earlier case is bound that there is not any extra bouncer coming. On this case, even if you happen to bowl one slower bouncer within the first half of the over, you possibly can nonetheless use yet another [in the over]. Somebody who’s weak towards bouncers must be higher at it after which it is going to give the bowler yet another weapon of their armoury. So, I really feel it is a very small change with a huge effect and as a bowler I really feel it is essential to have that rule.”
“Additionally within the dying overs, you may have yet another choice,” he stated. “So, it was turning into extra of yorker-oriented [bowling] in dying overs for quick bowlers. Not it may be yorker, slower ball and bouncers due to two bouncers an over. Even if you happen to do not bowl the second bouncer, the batsman nonetheless has that expectation that the bowler would possibly bowl the second bouncer.”
The rule might impression the ten franchises’ mindset in addition to they give the impression of being to get in among the high pacers from the public sale. The likes of Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Geral Coetzee, Josh Hazlewood, and so on, are already on high of groups’ wishlist. The rule-change might make the competitors for them much more fierce.
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