IPL: First match played under new rules, DRS taken without ball, impact player used too

The 16th season of IPL has started. The first game of this season was played on Friday night. This match of Gujarat Titans and Chennai Super Kings started with new rules. In this match, the game of 11 was shared after the draw. The impact player was also used and the rule of taking DRS wide and without the ball was taken advantage of.

In the first match of IPL 2023 played at Ahmedabad Stadium, Gujarat Titans won the toss and chose to pitch first. After the draw, the playing-11 of both teams came out, along with this playing-11, 5-5 substitute players were also listed. This was the first time playing 11 was shared after the draw. Earlier, in IPL and international cricket, there was a rule to choose to play 11 even before the draw.

Until now, in cricket, the DRS was taken only on the basis of out or no-out decisions. But in IPL 2023, teams will now be able to take DRS even on wide and off-ball related decisions by the referee. This rule was used in the first game itself. Rajvardhan Hungergekar bowled a full pitch in the 14th over the Gujarat batting. Shubman Gill hit a four on this ball but also did a review. Gill felt that this ball was high altitude, in which case he should be awarded a no-ball. Although the Gujarat team lost this review because the height of the ball was fine. Similarly, there was also a revision to the wide ball at 18 of this inning.

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Just before the start of the second innings, Chennai Super Kings used the Impact Player rule. Bowler Tushar Deshpande entered the field in place of Ambati Rayudu. Similarly, when the Gujarat Titans lost their first wicket in the form of Wriddhiman Saha, Sai Sudarshan was brought in in place of Kane Williamson to bat at number three.

This is a new rule for the world of cricket. Under this rule, teams can replace one of their players with another player in the middle of the match. A team may bring only one impact player to a match. At the time of the draw, the captain names five substitute players along with player-11 and one of these players can be used as an impact player.

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